Table 2.

The association between mental health problems and food insecurity trajectory.

Variables	β	95% CI		p Value
		Lower	Upper
Food insecurity group
Declining from high to low	0.187	−0.023	0.398	0.081
Persistently moderate	0.297	0.212	0.382	<0.001
Persistently low	0.091	−0.001	0.182	0.052
Gender
Female	0.113	0.063	0.163	<0.001
Household incomes (per person-10,000 NTD)	0.013	−0.085	0.110	0.798
Family structure
Parents of foreign nationality	−0.099	−0.201	0.004	0.059
Living with two parents	0.041	−0.019	0.101	0.182

CI denotes confidence interval; NTD, New Taiwan Dollar.