Food insecurity, coping strategies and glucose control in low-income patients with diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the relationship between food insecurity and coping strategies (actions taken to manage economic stress) hypothesized to worsen glucose control in patients with diabetes.

Design

Using a cross-sectional telephone survey and clinical data, we compared food-insecure and food-secure individuals in their use of coping strategies. Using logistic regression models, we then examined the association between poor glucose control (glycated Hb, HbA1c≥8·0 %), food insecurity and coping strategies.

Setting

An urban medical centre, between June and December 2013.

Subjects

Four hundred and seven adults likely to be low income (receiving Medicaid or uninsured and/or residing in a zip code with >30 % of the population below the federal poverty level) with ty

SUBMITTER: Mayer VL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10270824 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature