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The effectiveness of a short form of the Household Food Security Scale

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ID11019271
AuthorsStephen J Blumberg (0000-0002-2086-4768, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Karil Bialostosky (National Center for Health Statistics), William L Hamilton (0000-0002-3330-353X, National Center for Health Statistics), R R Briefel, Ronette Briefel (National Center for Health Statistics)
Year1999
Volume89
Issue8
Pages1231-1234
Publication date1999-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.89.8.1231
PMID10432912
OpenAlexW2026472514
LanguageEN
Citations received244
References cited8

OBJECTIVES: On the basis of an 18-item Household Food Security Scale, a short form was developed to assess financially based food insecurity and hunger in surveys of households with and without children. METHODS: To maximize the probability that households would be correctly classified with respect to food insecurity and hunger, 6 items from the full scale were selected on the basis of April 1995 Current Population Survey data. RESULTS: The short form classified 97.7% of households correctly and underestimated the prevalence of overall food insecurity and of hunger by 0.3 percentage points. CONCLUSIONS: The short form of the Household Food Security Scale is a brief but potentially useful tool for national surveys and some state/local applications

Agriculture · Cartography · Current Population Survey · Economics · Environmental health · Food insecurity · Food security · Geography · Population · Scale (ratio) · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Demography · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Medicine · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

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