Family socioeconomic status and maternal depressive symptoms: Mediation through household food insecurity across five years

This study highlights the need to consider household food insecurity as an underlying mechanism of maternal depressive symptoms in under-resourced families. Findings of this study can inform public health policy by highlighting the importance of considering factors such as food insecurity in the delivery of services to depressed mothers and their children in under-resourced contexts, and emphasizing the need for coordinated, integrated care in responding to the needs of these high-risk, vulnerable families.