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Published in final edited form as: Public Health Nutr. 2015 Oct 6;19(8):1405–1416. doi: 10.1017/S1368980015002888

Table 4.

Food-related behaviors, attitudinal and psychosocial factors by household food security status among low-income urban African American families (n=298)

	Food security status ^‡ mean score (SD)
	Food Secure (n=174)	Food Insecure
	Food Secure (n=174)	without hunger (n=87)	with hunger (n=37)
Food-related Behaviors
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 (2.42)^{* †}	8.90 (3.12)^*	7.81 (3.28)^†
Convenient	10.47 (1.92)^*	9.48 (1.96)^*	9.68 (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	9.20 (2.85)^*	8.33 (2.41)^*	8.57 (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)

^‡

One-way ANOVA with Bonferroni post hoc test to compare the food security groups

^{* †}

Significant differences between groups (p-value < 0.05)