Social connectedness is associated with food security among peri-urban Peruvian Amazonian communities
Social connectedness is associated with food security among peri-urban Peruvian Amazonian communities
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DOI:
10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.02.004
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发表时间:
2018-04-01
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4.7
通讯作者:
Kosek, Margaret N.
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作者:
Lee, Gwenyth O.;Surkan, Pamela J.;Kosek, Margaret N.
Background: Food insecurity is a major global public health issue. Social capital has been identified as central to maintaining food security across a wide range of low- and middle-income country contexts, but few studies have examined this relationship through sociocentric network analysis.Objective: We investigated relationships between household- and community-level social connectedness, household food security, and household income; and tested the hypothesis that social connectedness modified the relationship between income and food security.Methods: A cross-sectional census with an embedded questionnaire to capture social relationships was conducted among eleven peri-urban communities. Community connectedness was related to study outcomes of food security and per-capita income through regression models.Results: Of 1520 households identified, 1383 were interviewed (91.0%) and 1272 (83.9%) provided complete data. Households in the youngest communities had the most total contacts, and the highest proportion of contacts outside of the community. Household income was also associated with more outside-community contacts (0.05 more contacts per standard deviation increase in income, p