Nutrition
04/10/2002
By Mark Moran
There appears to be an association between insufficient food in a household and depressive disorder and suicidal symptoms among US adolescents, according to an analysis of data on 15- and 16-year-old teens from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III).
Adolescents were significantly more likely to have had dysthymia, thoughts of death, a desire to die and to have attempted suicide if they lived in a family in which there was sometimes or often not enough food to eat, say investigators at the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
In the survey, depressive disorders and suicidal symptoms were assessed using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule. Adolescents were classified as "food insufficient" if a family respondent reported that the family sometimes or often did not have enough to eat.
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