Food Insecurity Among Hispanic/Latino Youth: Who Is at Risk and What Are the Health Correlates?

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We examined the correlates and health implications of household food insecurity among Hispanic/Latino youth (aged 8-16 years), a high food insecurity-risk population.

Methods

Using the Hispanic Community Children's Health/Study of Latino Youth (n = 1,362) and bivariate and multivariate analyses, we examined the correlates of household and child food insecurity and very low food security. We assessed the influence of four sets of risk/protective factors-child demographic, acculturation, socioeconomic, and family/social support. We then examined associations between food insecurity and four health indicators-body mass index, diet quality, depression, and anxiety-and used modification effects to assess whether these associations differed by sex, age, household income, p

SUBMITTER: Potochnick S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6492618 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature