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Titre :	The effectiveness of a short form of the household food security scale. (1999)
Auteurs :	S.J. BLUMBERG ; K. BIALOSTOSKY ; R.R. BRIEFEL ; W.L. HAMILTON ; National Center for Health Statistics. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hyattsville. MD. USA
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	American journal of public health (vol. 89, n° 8, 1999)
Pagination :	1231-1234
Langues:	Anglais
Mots-clés :	Epidémiologie ; Estimation ; Malnutrition ; Autoévaluation ; Besoin ; Alimentation ; Faim ; Angleterre ; Grande Bretagne ; Royaume Uni ; Europe ; Homme ; Maladie nutrition
Résumé :	[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST C4R0xyRj. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Objectives. On the basis of an 18-item Household Food Security Scale, a short fomr was developed to assess financially based food insecurity and hunger in surveys of households with and and without children. Met-hods. To maximize the probability that households would be correctly classified with respect to food insecurity and hunger, 6 items from the full scale were selected on the basis of April 1995 Current Population Survey data. Results. The short form classified 97.7% of households correctly and underestimated the prevalance of overall food insecurity and of hunger by 0.3 percentage points. Conclusions. The short form of the Household Food Security Scale is a brief but potentially useful tool for national sruveys and some state/local applications.

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