Community food insecurity predicts child maltreatment report rates across Illinois zip codes, 2011-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We examined how longitudinal changes and inter-community differences of food insecurity rates were associated with child maltreatment report (CMR) rates at the zip code level. We assessed these associations overall, by urbanicity, and within subgroups of age, sex, and maltreatment type.

Methods

We used Illinois statewide zip code-level data from 2011 to 2018. We measured CMR rates based on Illinois child protective services records and food insecurity rates from Feeding America's Map the Meal Gap. We conducted spatial linear modeling to account for spatial dependence with controls for various socioeconomic, demographic, care burden, and instability conditions of communities.

Results

Both longitudinal changes and inter-community differences of food insecurity r

SUBMITTER: Kim H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9844240 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature