Risk factors associated with the presence and severity of food insecurity in rural Honduras.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify factors associated with the presence and severity of food insecurity among a sample of Honduran caregivers of young children.

Design

Cross-sectional study in which the dependent variable, household food insecurity, was measured using a fourteen-item questionnaire developed and validated in a population of similar cultural context. A predictive modelling strategy used backwards elimination in logistic regression and multinomial logit regression models to compute odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for food insecurity.

Setting

Rural Honduras in the department of Intibucá, between March and April 2009.

Subjects

Two-hundred and ninety-eight Honduran caregivers of children aged 6-18 months.

Results

Ninety-three per cent of household

SUBMITTER: Ben-Davies ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10282495 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature