Table 3.

Item loadings of the Arabic version of the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS)

	Factor loadings†
HFIAS item	Food quality factor‡ (E = 5·2)	Food quantity factor§ (E = 1·1)
#1: In the past 4 weeks, did you worry that your home would not have enough food?	0·67	0·39
#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?	0·86	0·17
#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?	0·85	0·24
#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?	0·81	0·22
#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?	0·51	0·68
#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?	0·53	0·64
#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?	0·44	0·67
#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?	0·39	0·76
#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?	−0·03	0·83

E, eigenvalue.

†Factor loadings greater than 0·6 are indicated in bold font.

‡Food quality factor explained 38·3 % of the total variance.

§Food quantity factor explained 32·0 % of the total variance.