Parent and Child Reports of Food Insecurity and Mental Health: Divergent Perspectives

摘要

Background:Food insecurity—the inability to provide adequate food for at least one household member sometime during the year—is linked to negative physical and mental health outcomes. Child reports of experiences in other domains of life are only moderately related to parental proxy reports of the same experiences. The goal of our study was to assess the convergence of parent and child reports of food insecurity and several specific mental health symptoms.