Food insecurity during COVID-19 in a Canadian academic pediatric hospital: a cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospital-based food insecurity is defined as the inability of caregivers to obtain adequate food during their child's hospital admission. We aimed to measure the prevalence of household and hospital-based food insecurity, and to explore the associations with caregiver distress in an academic pediatric hospital setting.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional survey of caregivers of children admitted to the general pediatric ward of an academic pediatric hospital in Toronto, Ontario, from April to October 2020. We measured household food insecurity using the 18-item Household Food Security Survey Module, and included 3 adapted questions about hospital-based food insecurity. We measured caregiver distress with the Distress Thermometer for Parents. We used descriptive

SUBMITTER: van den Heuvel M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9259437 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature