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Title: Anxiety and Its Association with Food Insecurity: Evidence from Participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2023
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DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.17986.96965
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Abstract: This study uses the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data from 2019 to measure the association of anxiety with the use of food stamp (SNAP) benefits and other sociodemographic factors among adults in the United States. Anxiety is measured in three questions within the mental health question block of the NHIS as a component to overall health. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or food stamp benefits is a federal social safety net program for poor populations in the United States, and yet little is acknowledged of its role in anxiety as both a stigmatizing social process and a labelling indicator of poverty. The usage of SNAP benefits will be analyzed in its association to an anxiety diagnosis, along with socioeconomic factors such as gender, age, race, education, and sexual orientation. These factors also impact levels of marginalization, particularly among racial, gender and sexual minorities (Dush et al. 2022; Frost, Lehavot, and Meyer 2015; Stacey and Wislar 2023). Lastly, I discuss the impacts of the COViD-19 pandemic years (2020-2021) upon the association of SNAP usage and anxiety among adults. Results indicate that sexual orientation and education had higher odds of association with a positive anxiety diagnosis, along with SNAP usage. Racial identity was found to be insignificant as a sociodemographic factor. Poverty, when tested in an interaction model, was found to be insignificant, and thus had little effect on the association between anxiety diagnosis and SNAP.
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Authors: Ingram, Amelia K
Institution: Queens College of the City University of New York
Department: Data Analytics and Applied Social Research
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Pages: 1-37
Data Collections: IPUMS Health Surveys - NHIS
Topics: Health, Poverty and Welfare
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