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. 2024 Feb 15;23(1):19.
doi: 10.1186/s12937-024-00913-9.

The association between lifelines diet score (LLDS) with depression and quality of life in Iranian adolescent girls

Zahra Darabi  1   2 , Abbas Ali Sangouni  1   3 , Majid Ghayour-Mobarhan  4 , Gordon A Ferns  5 , Sayyed Saeid Khayyatzadeh  6   7
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The association between lifelines diet score (LLDS) with depression and quality of life in Iranian adolescent girls

Zahra Darabi et al. Nutr J. .

Abstract

Background: It has been proposed that a greater degree of adherence to a healthy dietary pattern is associated with a lower risk of depression and a poor quality of life (QoL). The Lifelines diet score (LLDS) is a new, evidence-base scoring system to define the quality of diet. We designed a cross-sectional study to investigate the association between LLDS with depression and QoL in Iranian adolescent girls.

Methods: A total of 733 female adolescents were recruited from Mashhad and Sabzevar cities, Iran. Depression and QoL were assessed utilizing the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and SF-12v2 questionnaires, respectively. The LLDS was defined by dividing intakes of 12 food groups with negative or positive health effects into quintiles ranging 12 to 60 points. To explore the association between LLDS with QoL and depression, logistic regression was used in crude and adjusted models.

Results: The prevalence of depression and poor QoL was 24% and 49%, respectively. After adjusting for confounding factors, adolescent girls in the highest quartile of LLDS compared with the participants in the lowest quartile had a 42% lower probability of reporting depressive symptoms (OR: 0.58; 95% CI: 0.35-0.97, P = 0.03). In addition, the participants in the highest quartile of LLDS had lower odds of poor QoL compared with the subjects in the lowest quartile (OR: 0.65; 95% CI: 0.42-0.92, P = 0.04).

Conclusions: There is an inverse relationship between LLDS with risk of depression and poor QoL. Prospective and interventional investigations are needed to reach a clear vision.

Keywords: Adolescents; Depression; Diet; Lifelines diet score; Quality of life.

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