Invariance of the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale Across Different Groups of Adolescents and Young Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cross-group comparisons of household food insecurity and its associations using multiple-item scales assume that scale scores can be interpreted as identical across groups. However, scores should not be interpreted as identical across groups without evidence of measurement invariance. Noninvariant measures indicate that the underlying construct may be different across groups.

Objective

To determine whether the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) is invariant across different groups of Ghanaian and South African youth aged 15 to 24.

Methods

We analyzed cross-sectional quantitative data from 1437 and 4165 young South Africans and Ghanaians, respectively. Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis was used to examine whether the HFIAS was invariant ac

SUBMITTER: Masa R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8442126 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature