Table 1.
Food insecurity questionnaire items and the frequency of affirmative participant responses* at baseline (with respect to the previous month); caregivers (n 298) of children aged 6–18 months, Intibucá, rural Honduras, March–April 2009
| Affirmative (n 298) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Questionnaire item | n | % |
| Have you worried that in your home there was not enough food and you could not obtain more?† | 215 | 72 |
| Did you or any adult in your home have to limit the variety of food because of lack of resources?† | 222 | 74 |
| Did you or any adult in your home have to eat the same food for several days in a row because you didn't have food to prepare another or different meal?† | 241 | 81 |
| Did you have to serve less food because there weren't resources to obtain enough food?† | 229 | 77 |
| Because there was not enough food at home, were you unable to prepare one of the meals of the day?‡ | 151 | 51 |
| Did you or any adult in your home have to skip one of the meals of the day because there was not enough food?‡ | 132 | 44 |
| Did you or any adult in your home have to go to sleep without eating because there was not enough food at home?‡ | 41 | 14 |
| Did you or any adult in your home have to go a whole day without eating because there was not enough food?§ | 13 | 4 |
| Did you have to stop giving the children the food they should have because you couldn't obtain it?‡ | 158 | 53 |
| Because there was not enough food at home, did you have to serve less food to the children?‡ | 187 | 63 |
| Did any of the children have to skip one of the meals of the day because there was not enough food at home?§ | 102 | 34 |
| Did any of the children have to go to sleep without eating because there was not enough food at home?§ | 28 | 9 |
| Did any of the children have to go a whole day without eating because there was not enough food?§ | 6 | 2 |
| In order to have food in your home, did you have to do things that make you feel ashamed?§ | 24 | 8 |
For each item, responses of ‘many times’ or ‘sometimes’ were considered affirmative and responses of ‘never’ were considered as negative.
Among those not otherwise classified as having severe or moderate food insecurity, affirmative response to any of these items resulted in classification of mild food insecurity.
Among those not otherwise classified as having severe food insecurity, affirmative response to any of these items resulted in classification of moderate food insecurity.
Regardless of other responses, affirmative response to any of these items resulted in classification of severe food insecurity.