Food insecurity measurement and prevalence estimates during the COVID-19 pandemic in a repeated cross-sectional survey in Mexico.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To validate the telephone modality of the Latin American and Caribbean Food Security Scale (ELCSA) included in three waves of a phone survey to estimate the monthly household food insecurity prevalence during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.

Design

We examined the reliability and internal validity of the ELCSA scale in three repeated waves of cross-sectional surveys with Rasch models. We estimated the monthly prevalence of food insecurity in the general population and in households with and without children and compared them with a national 2018 survey. We tested concurrent validity by testing associations of food insecurity with socio-economic status and anxiety.

Setting

ENCOVID-19 is a monthly telephone cross-sectional survey collecting information on the

SUBMITTER: Gaitan-Rossi P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7653232 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature