“As a potentially modifiable factor, both at an individual and societal level, nutrition may therefore represent an important public health target for strategies to address childhood mental well-being,” the authors wrote, calling for further investigation of the association between nutrition and mental well-being.
This study was commissioned by Norfolk County Council Public Health and the Norfolk Safeguarding Children Board. The University of East Anglia and Social Care Partners provided funding to support Dr. Hayhoe’s work on this project.
Some coauthors are employed by the Norfolk County Council that commissioned the survey.