Development and Validity of a 2-Item Screen to Identify Families at Risk for Food Insecurity

R. Hager, Erin; M. Quigg, Anna; M. Black, Maureen; M. Coleman, S.; Heeren, Timothy; Rose‐Jacobs, Ruth; T. Cook, John; Ettinger de Cuba, Stephanie; H. Casey, Patrick; Chilton, Mariana; B. Cutts, Diana; Meyers, Alan; A. Frank, Deborah

doi:10.1542/peds.2009-3146

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Development and Validity of a 2-Item Screen to Identify Families at Risk for Food Insecurity

Published in PEDIATRICS • Jul 1, 2010

Authors:

Erin R. Hager

Anna M. Quigg

Maureen M. Black

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To develop a brief screen to identify families at risk for food insecurity (FI) and to evaluate the sensitivity, specificity, and convergent validity of the screen. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Caregivers of children (age: birth through 3 years) from 7 urban medical centers completed the US Dep...

Subject

Medicine

Logistic regression

Demography

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