Children's experiences of food insecurity can assist in understanding its effect on their well-being
Children's experiences of food insecurity can assist in understanding its effect on their well-being
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DOI：
10.1093/jn/135.7.1683
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发表时间：
2005-07-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Rehner, TA
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作者：
Connell, CL;Lofton, KL;Rehner, TA
了解儿童的粮食不安全经历对于更好地衡量和评估其对儿童营养、身心健康的影响至关重要。我们的定性研究探讨了儿童对家庭粮食不安全的看法，以确定这些看法，并利用它们来建立儿童的粮食不安全经验的组成部分。儿童32例; 11-16岁）的课后计划和低收入地区的中学参加了个人半结构化的深入访谈。11岁的儿童可以描述与食物不安全相关的行为，如果他们直接或间接经历过的话。采用定性数据分析的持续比较方法，将儿童对与粮食不安全相关的行为的描述分为食物数量、食物质量、心理方面和家庭粮食不安全文献中描述的社会方面。量的方面包括吃得比平时少，吃得多或吃得快，当食物是可用的。质量方面包括使用几种低成本食品。心理方面包括对家庭食物供应的担忧/焦虑/悲伤，对所吃食物没有选择的感觉，被贴上穷人标签的羞耻/恐惧，以及试图保护儿童。粮食不安全的社会方面主要是利用社交网络获取粮食或金钱以及社会排斥。这些结果为了解粮食不安全对儿童福祉的影响提供了宝贵的信息，特别是相对于福祉的社会和情感方面。
An understanding of the experience of food insecurity by children is essential for better measurement and assessment of its effect on children's nutritional, physical, and mental health. Our qualitative study explored children's perceptions of household food insecurity to identify these perceptions and to use them to establish components of children's food insecurity experience. Children (n = 32; 11-16 y old) from after school programs and a middle school in low-income areas participated in individual semistructured in-depth interviews. Children as young as 11 y could describe behaviors associated with food insecurity if they had experienced it directly or indirectly. Using the constant comparative method of qualitative data analysis, children's descriptions of behaviors associated with food insecurity were categorized into components of quantity of food, quality of food, psychological aspects, and social aspects described in the household food insecurity literature. Aspects of quantity included eating less than usual and eating more or eating fast when food was available. Aspects of quality included use of a few kinds of low-cost foods. Psychological aspects included worry/anxiety/sadness about the family food supply, feelings of having no choice in the foods eaten, shame/fear of being labeled as poor, and attempts to shield children. Social aspects of food insecurity centered on using social networks to acquire food or money and social exclusion. These results provide valuable information in understanding the effect of food insecurity on children's well-being especially relative to the social and emotional aspects of well-being.