Brief assessment of food insecurity accurately identifies high-risk US adults

• Published in: Public health nutrition Vol. 20; no. 8; pp. 1367 - 1371
• Main Authors: Gundersen, Craig, Engelhard, Emily E, Crumbaugh, Amy S, Seligman, Hilary K
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.06.2017
• Subjects: Adults; adults at risk; Assessment and Methodology; Current Population Survey; Ethnicity; Family Characteristics; Federal agencies; Food; Food security; Food Supply; Health care expenditures; Households; Humans; Hunger; Medical screening; Nutrition; Nutrition Surveys; Risk groups; screening; Sensitivity analysis; Sensitivity and Specificity; Short Communications; Socioeconomic Factors; Subgroups; United States; USDA; United States; United States > US; Screening; Social determinants of health; Food insecurity; Health disparities

To facilitate the introduction of food insecurity screening into clinical settings, we examined the test performance of two-item screening questions for food insecurity against the US Department of Agriculture's Core Food Security Module. We examined sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of var...