US state-level containment policies not associated with food insecurity changes during the early COVID-19 pandemic: a multilevel analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the relationship between US containment measures during the COVID-19 pandemic and household food insecurity.

Design

To investigate these relationships, we developed a framework linking COVID-19-related containment policies with different domains of food security and then used multilevel random effects models to examine associations between state-level containment policies and household food security. Our framework depicts theorised linkages between stringency policies and five domains of food security (availability, physical access, economic access, acceptability in meeting preferences and agency, which includes both self-efficacy and infrastructure). We used US national data from a representative survey data from the National Food Access and COVID r

SUBMITTER: Sundermeir SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11822581 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature