- Title
- Social dysfunction and diet outcomes in people with psychosis
- Creator
- Mucheru, Doreen; Hanlon, Mary-Claire; Campbell, Linda E.; McEvoy, Mark; MacDonald-Wicks, Lesley
- Relation
- Nutrients Vol. 9, Issue 1
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu9010080
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- This analysis aimed to examine the association of social dysfunction with food security status, fruit intake, vegetable intake, meal frequency and breakfast consumption in people with psychosis from the Hunter New England (HNE) catchment site of the Survey of High Impact Psychosis (SHIP). Social dysfunction and dietary information were collected using standardised tools. Independent binary logistic regressions were used to examine the association between social dysfunction and food security status, fruit intake, vegetable intake, meal frequency and breakfast consumption. Although social dysfunction did not have a statistically significant association with most diet variables, participants with obvious to severe social dysfunction were 0.872 (95% CI (0.778, 0.976)) less likely to eat breakfast than those with no social dysfunction p < 0.05. Participants with social dysfunction were therefore, 13% less likely to have breakfast. This paper highlights high rates of social dysfunction, significant food insecurity, and intakes of fruits and vegetables below recommendations in people with psychosis. In light of this, a greater focus needs to be given to dietary behaviours and social dysfunction in lifestyle interventions delivered to people with psychosis. Well-designed observational research is also needed to further examine the relationship between social dysfunction and dietary behaviour in people with psychosis.
- Subject
- psychosis; social isolation; social dysfunction; fruit intake; vegetable intake; food security; diet
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1329257
- Identifier
- uon:26111
- Identifier
- ISSN:2072-6643
- Rights
- © 2017 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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