Table 2.
Responses to items on the Arabic version of the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) among study participants (n 150) in the rural Beqaa Valley, Lebanon, September 2011–March 2012
| Options† | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No | Rarely | Sometimes | Often | |||||
| HFIAS item | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % |
| #1: In the past 4 weeks, did you worry that your home would not have enough food? | 101 | 67·8 | 17 | 11·4 | 17 | 11·4 | 14 | 9·3 |
| #2: In the past 4 weeks, were you or any family member living with you at home not able to eat the kinds of food you preferred because of a lack of available resources? | 83 | 55·3 | 28 | 18·7 | 16 | 10·7 | 23 | 15·3 |
| #3: In the past 4 weeks, did you or any family member living with you at home have to eat a limited variety of food due to a lack of available resources? | 93 | 62·0 | 19 | 12·7 | 20 | 13·3 | 18 | 12·0 |
| #4: In the past 4 weeks, did you or any family member living with you at home have to eat some foods that you really did not want to eat because of a lack of available resources to obtain other types of food? | 93 | 62·0 | 20 | 13·3 | 19 | 12·7 | 18 | 12·0 |
| #5: In the past 4 weeks, did you or any family member living with you at home have to eat a smaller meal than you felt you needed because there was not enough food available? | 123 | 82·0 | 9 | 6·0 | 13 | 8·7 | 5 | 3·3 |
| #6: In the past 4 weeks, did you or any family member living with you at home have to eat fewer meals in a day because there was not enough food available? | 122 | 81·9 | 5 | 3·4 | 14 | 9·4 | 8 | 5·4 |
| #7: In the past 4 weeks, was there ever no food to eat of any kind in your home because of a lack of available resources to get food? | 123 | 82·0 | 5 | 3·3 | 13 | 8·7 | 9 | 6·0 |
| #8: In the past 4 weeks, did you or any family member living with you at home go to sleep at night hungry because there was not enough food available? | 129 | 86·6 | 7 | 4·7 | 8 | 5·4 | 5 | 3·4 |
| #9: In the past 4 weeks, did you or any family member living with you at home go for 24 h without eating anything because there was not enough food available? | 144 | 96·0 | 4 | 2·7 | 1 | 0·7 | 1 | 0·7 |
†Rarely, once or twice in the past 4 weeks; sometimes, three to ten times in the past 4 weeks; often, more than ten times in the past 4 weeks( 15 ).