肉类消费和积极的心理健康:一个范围审查
Urska Dobersek1, Mary Bender1, Alexandria Etienne1
1Department of Psychology, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN, USA.
Preventive medicine reports
|January 8, 2024
概括
这次审查发现,有关肉类消费和心理健康的证据各不相同. 虽然一些研究表明,肉类消费者的心理健康状况更好,但大多数研究表明,肉食者和禁食者之间没有显著差异.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 营养科学 营养科学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 饮食和心理健康之间的关系是一个日益增长的研究领域.
- 了解肉类消费与禁食对心理影响对于公众健康和个人福祉至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 对现有的关于肉类消费或禁食与积极心理功能之间的关联的文献进行范围审查.
- 识别研究缺口,指导未来在该领域的研究.
主要方法:
- 在2022年4月进行的多个科学数据库 (PubMed,PsycINFO,CINAHL Plus,Medline,Cochrane图书馆,Web of Science) 的系统搜索.
- 包括对肉类消费者和肉类禁食者的积极心理功能进行的初级研究.
- 分析了13项代表89,138名参与者的研究,重点关注生活满意度,积极的心理健康,自尊,活力,生活意义,乐观,积极的情绪和心理健康等结果.
主要成果:
- 在13项研究中,有8项研究发现,肉食者与不食肉者之间的积极心理功能没有显著差异.
- 三项研究报告了关于关联的混合结果.
- 两项研究表明,与肉食者相比,肉食者表现出更高的自尊,积极的心理健康和生活意义.
- 没有研究表明,戒肉者比肉食者有更好的心理功能.
结论:
- 目前的文献提出了关于肉类消费与积极心理功能之间的联系的模两可的发现.
- 虽然少数研究支持食用肉类,但总体证据不一致,强调需要更严格的研究.
- 现有的研究设计限制了因果推理,强调了未来研究的必要性,以澄清时间关系和建立因果关系.
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