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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 22.
Published in final edited form as: Women Health. 2011 Jul 22;51(5):442–460. doi: 10.1080/03630242.2011.584367

Table 2.

Unadjusted Prevalence of Self-reported Health-Related Quality of Life by Presence of Household Food Insecurity and Urban/Rural Residence, n=1367 women

Urban Rural
Household
food security
(n = 319)		 Household
food
insecurity
(n = 101)		 P- value Household food
security
(n = 668)		 Household
food insecurity
(n = 279)		 P- value
Health-Related Quality of Life
Fair-to-poor general health 11.3 25.7 <0.001 18.3 43.7 <0.001
Poor physical healtha 7.4 20.0 <0.001 11.7 26.6 <0.001
Frequent mental distressb 10.5 24.2 0.001 10.6 27.5 <0.001
a

≥14 days where physical health was not good (n = 404 urban and 875 rural women).

b

≥14 days where mental health was not good (n = 399 urban and 891 rural women).