Food Insecurity and Experiences of Discrimination Among Caregivers of Hospitalized Children.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Pediatric hospitals are adopting strategies to address food insecurity (FI), a stigmatizing condition, among families with children. We hypothesized that parents and other caregivers ("caregivers") from households with FI or marginal food security (MFS) are more likely to experience discrimination during their child's hospitalization.

Methods

We analyzed data from 319 caregivers of children admitted to an urban, academic children's hospital and randomly assigned to the control arm of the double-blind randomized controlled CommunityRx-Hunger trial (November 2020 to June 2022, NCT R01MD012630). Household food security in the 30 days before admission and discrimination during hospitalization were measured with the US Household Food Security Survey and

SUBMITTER: Cacioppo AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10657777 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature