Table 3.
Relation between marginal food security based on the 2-item Hunger Vital Sign™ and on the 1-item NutriSTEP® question with family income, maternal education, and parent employment status (N = 1174)
| Outcome | 2-item Hunger Vital Sign™ | 1-item NutriSTEP® | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marginal food security = yes | Marginal food security = yes | |||
| aOR (95% CI) | p | aOR (95% CI) | p | |
| Self-report family incomea | ||||
| Less than $40,000 | 21.77 (3.92, 121.01) | < 0.001 | 7.43 (3.44, 16.05) | < 0.001 |
| $40,000 - $79,999 | 15.77 (2.94, 84.67) | 0.001 | 6.34 (3.40, 11.83) | < 0.001 |
| $80,000 - $149,999 | 6.23 (1.17, 33.26) | 0.03 | 2.66 (1.53, 4.63) | < 0.001 |
| $150,000 + | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Maternal educationb | ||||
| High School or less | 4.75 (1.95, 11.58) | < 0.001 | 1.82 (0.90, 3.68) | 0.09 |
| College/Trades Diploma | 1.75 (0.76, 4.04) | 0.19 | 1.68 (1.00, 2.82) | 0.049 |
| University Degree | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Parent employment statusc | ||||
| Both parents unemployed | 6.26 (1.72, 22.81) | 0.006 | 3.31 (1.06, 10.35) | 0.04 |
| 1 parent employed | 0.83 (0.39, 1.79) | 0.64 | 0.95 (0.59, 1.53) | 0.83 |
| 2 parents employed | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
a Model adjusted for age, sex, maternal ethnicity, maternal education, parent employment status
b Model adjusted for age, sex, maternal ethnicity, family income, parent employment status,
c Model adjusted for age, sex, maternal ethnicity, maternal education, family income,