Table 2.
Health lifestyle behaviors by food security status using NHANES 2013–2016 data.
| Full Security (n = 7863) |
Marginal Security (n = 1353) |
Low Security (n = 1275) |
Very Low Security (n = 963) |
p-Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Healthy Diet * | |||||
| Excellent | 85.5 | 4.9 | 5.1 | 4.5 | <0.001 |
| Very Good | 86.23 | 6.9 | 5.0 | 1.8 | |
| Good | 77.0 | 9.9 | 7.7 | 5.5 | |
| Fair | 63.8 | 11.6 | 15.0 | 9.6 | |
| Poor | 51.5 | 12.7 | 15.5 | 20.4 | |
| Health Status * | |||||
| Good or above | 78.6 | 9.3 | 6.9 | 5.2 | <0.001 |
| Fair or poor | 59.7 | 11.5 | 14.8 | 14.0 | |
| Tobacco Use * | |||||
| Never smoker | 78.5 | 9.0 | 7.9 | 4.7 | <0.001 |
| Former smoker | 81.0 | 7.6 | 6.5 | 4.8 | |
| Current smoker | 58.9 | 13.4 | 12.9 | 14.8 | |
| Usual Source of Care * | |||||
| Yes | 77.5 | 8.9 | 8.0 | 6.0 | <0.001 |
| No | 61.0 | 14.1 | 14.1 | 10.8 | |
* Indicates significance.