Table 4.
Food-related behaviours, attitudinal and psychosocial factors by household food security status among low-income urban African-American families (n 298) in Baltimore City, MD, USA, June 2013–June 2014
| Food security status* | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food insecure | ||||||
| Food secure (n 174) | Without hunger (n 87) | With hunger (n 37) | ||||
| Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | |
| Food-related behaviours | ||||||
| Healthier food acquisition | 39·26 | 32·99 | 37·30 | 24·20 | 41·89 | 29·23 |
| Less-healthy food acquisition | 54·10 | 40·93 | 54·17 | 36·93 | 55·73 | 41·48 |
| Healthy food preparation | 1·39 | 1·38 | 1·48 | 1·62 | 1·08 | 1·38 |
| Healthy food beliefs and attitudes | ||||||
| Affordable | 10·46 a | 2·42 | 8·90b,c | 3·12 | 7·81 c | 3·28 |
| Convenient | 10·47a | 1·92 | 9·48 b | 1·96 | 9·68a,b | 2·07 |
| Important | 12·54 | 1·74 | 12·26 | 1·96 | 12·41 | 2·31 |
| Tastes good | 4·05 | 0·84 | 3·79 | 0·98 | 3·70 | 1·22 |
| Body-image satisfaction | 9·20a | 2·85 | 8·33b | 2·41 | 8·57a,b | 3·07 |
| Food-related psychosocial factors | ||||||
| Food and nutrition knowledge score | 7·14 | 1·80 | 6·99 | 1·76 | 6·97 | 1·61 |
| Intentions on healthy eating score | 11·71 | 4·21 | 10·79 | 4·01 | 10·57 | 4·19 |
| Healthy eating self-efficacy score | 24·88 | 3·70 | 25·05 | 3·76 | 23·89 | 4·49 |
a,b,c
Mean values within a row with unlike superscript letters were significantly different (P < 0·05).
*
One-way ANOVA with Bonferroni post hoc test to compare the food security groups.