Table 3.

Components of household food insecurity among households of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in three districts of South India, 2015–2018 (n=765)

Occurrence questions	Occurrence*
	No	Rarely	Sometimes	Often
I.Worry or anxiety about food
1.Worry that the household would not have enough food	648 (84.7)	52 (6.8)	62 (8.1)	3 (0.4)
II. Insufficient Quality of Food
2.Any household member not able to eat the kinds of foods preferred because of lack of resources	636 (83.1)	67 (8.8)	60 (7.8)	2 (0.3)
3.Eating a limited variety of foods due to a lack of resources	680 (88.9)	40 (5.2)	45 (5.9)	0 (0.0)
4.Any household member having to eat some foods that they really did not want to eat because of lack of resources to obtain other types of food	611 (79.9)	53 (6.9)	91 (11.9)	10 (1.3)
III. Insufficient Quantity of Food
5.Any household member having to eat a smaller meal than needed because there was not enough food	593 (77.5)	73 (9.5)	97 (12.7)	2 (0.3)
6.Eating fewer meals in a day because there was not enough food	601 (78.6)	89 (11.6)	73 (9.5)	2 (0.3)
7.There is no food of any kind to eat in your household because of a lack of resources to get food	625 (81.7)	73 (9.5)	60 (7.8)	7 (0.9)
8.Any household member going to sleep hungry at night because there was not enough food	643 (84.1)	70 (9.2)	51 (6.7)	1 (0.1)
9.Any household member going a whole day and night without eating anything because there was not enough food	631 (82.5)	73 (9.5)	57 (7.5)	4 (0.5)

*0=No, 1=Rarely (1–2 times in the past 4 weeks), 2=Sometimes (3–10 times in the past 4 weeks), 3=Often (more than 10 times in the past 4 weeks).