Zahra Mirzadehahari, Fatemeh Khorramrouz, Morteza Gohari, Mohammad Amin Senobari,
Gity Sotoudeh, Maryam Khosravi
Citation: Khosravi M. Depressed Women and Household Food Security Status. Medp Nutr and Food Sci. 2022; 1(1): mpnfs-202210001.
Abstract
Introduction: Household food insecurity (HFI) has become a major public health concern throughout the world. In addition, depression, as one of the main causes of disability, affects 350 million people worldwide. Given that both problems have a high prevalence, we investigated the relationship between depression and household food insecurity in this study.
Methods: In this case-control study, the status of food insecurity was compared between adult women with newly diagnosed major depression and healthy women in a 1-to-2 ratio. Major depression was diagnosed by a psychiatrist through a structured interview by diagnostic instrument DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder), food insecurity was evaluated using HFIAS (Household Food Insecurity Access Scale) and other general data were gathered by a researcher-made questionnaire. We used SPSS, version18 to analyze data. The differences between quantitative and qualitative variables were examined by the t-test, ANOVA, and χ2 tests, and determining the odds ratio for depression between different degrees of food insecurity was performed by logistic regression.
Results: We observed a positive significant relationship between major depression and food insecurity so that the risk of major depression was 3.34 times higher in the severe food insecurity group than in the food security group (P=0.029). This relationship remained significant after adjusting for the confounding factors, including physical activity, number of children, and marital status.
Conclusion: It was observed a high prevalence of food insecurity in major depressed Iranian women.
Keywords: Household Food Insecurity (HFI); Depression; Major Depression Disorder (MDD); Women, Food Security
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