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The effectiveness of a short form of the Household Food Security Scale.

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Blumberg, S J, Bialostosky, K, Hamilton, W L, Briefel, R R·1999·American Journal of Public Health

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OBJECTIVES: On the basis of an 18-item Household Food Security Scale, a short form was developed to assess financially based food insecurity and hunger in surveys of households with and without children. METHODS: 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 prevalence 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 surveys and some state/local applications.

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Authors
Blumberg, S. J., Bialostosky, K., Hamilton, W. L., & Briefel, R. R.
Venue
American Journal of Public Health
Published
1999-08
Volume
89
Issue
8
Pages
1231-1234
ISSN
  • 0090-0036 (ISSN-L)
  • 1541-0048
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W2026472514
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972
References
1
FWCI
19.63
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Blumberg, S. J., Bialostosky, K., Hamilton, W. L., & Briefel, R. R. (1999). The effectiveness of a short form of the Household Food Security Scale. American Journal of Public Health. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.89.8.1231

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