چکیده مقاله
Introduction: Food insecurity has been the major public health problem during the two past decades attracted the attention of population,scientists and policy makers Food insecurity is defined as limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable food in socially acceptable ways Regarding energy efficiency, 20% and 23/2% of households had food insecurity during 1996 and 2001 in Iran, respectively Since now food insecurity has not been assessed directly in national, state or country levels The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of food insecurity as well as some other variables among families with children within the age range of 1 5 years old living in the Ajabshir of East Azarbaijan, Iran Materials and Methods: This study was conducted in an informal setting, namely Ajabshir This cross sectional study was conducted on 340 households using simple random sampling technique A demographic questionnaire was utilized to analyze the population as well as the social and economic status of the households Moreover, the food security status of the participants were measured by the USDA household food security questionnaire The obtained data were analyzed using the Chi square test and one way ANOVA Results: The prevalence of the household food insecurity was 74/5% Food insecurity was significantly associated with wasting, overweight, underweight, and obesity P
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نویسندگان
Yalda PhD Candidate in Food and Nutrition Policy Nutrit
Hanieh Ghasemzadeh MSc Student in Nutritional Sciences, Student Research Committee, Nutrition Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IranAli Barzegar Assistant Professor of Nutrition, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
Hanieh Ghasemzadeh
MSc Student in Nutritional Sciences, Student Research Committee, Nutrition Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
Ali Barzegar
Assistant Professor of Nutrition, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
شیوه ارجاع
PhD Candidate in Food and Nutrition Policy Nutrit, Yalda and Ghasemzadeh, Hanieh and Barzegar, Ali,1401,Evaluation of nutritional status and food security in children and importance of socioeconomic status,The 11th International Conference on Health, Treatment and Health Promotion
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