Food assistance use barriers, facilitators, and recommendations: insights from a qualitative study of racially and ethnically diverse parents.

ABSTRACT: The objective of this study was to explore barriers and facilitators to utilising a range of food assistance resources as reported by parents living with or at risk for food insecurity (FI), as well as parents' recommendations for improving utilisation of these resources. Qualitative data from semi-structured interviews about parents' perspectives on interventions to address FI were analysed using a hybrid deductive/inductive thematic approach. Parents were drawn from the larger Family Matters longitudinal cohort study (N = 1,307), which was recruited from primary care clinics in Minnesota. Forty racially and ethnically diverse parents (M _age = 38.5 years; 97.5% mothers; 85% parents of colour) were recruited by food security level, with ten parents represent

SUBMITTER: Hazzard VM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11658953 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature