Table 1.

Sociodemographic characteristics of caregivers who affirmed specific child-level items in the US Department of Agriculture's Household Food Security Module (HFSSM) (n=746)

	Number of caregivers (percentage)
Food security1
Food insecure	480 (64.3)
Very low food security among children	266 (35.7)
Urbanicity
Non-urban	290 (38.8)
Urban	456 (61.1)
Race/ethnicity
Non-Hispanic African American	601 (80.6)
Non-Hispanic white	128 (17.2)
Other	17 (2.3)
HFFS child-level items affirmed
Reliance on low-cost food item only2	221 (29.6)
Cutting children's meal size item only3	11 (1.5)
Both reliance on low cost food and cutting children's meal size items	514 (68.9)

¹Food-insecure households are those that affirmed three or more items in the 18-item HFSSM but did not have very low food security among children. Very low food security among children households affirmed five or more of the child-reference items in the HFSSM.

²Full item text “We relied on only a few kinds of low-cost food to feed our children because we were running out of money to buy food. Was that often, sometimes, or never true for you in the last 12 months?”

³Full item text “In the last 12 months, did you ever cut the size of any of the children's meals because there wasn't enough money for food?” (Response options: yes or no.)