Zinat Mortazavi|Ahmad Reza Dorosty|Mohammad Reza Eshraghian|Mohtasham Ghaffari|Alireza Ansari?Moghaddam|Mahdi Mohammadi
Household Food Insecurity in Southeastern Iran: Severity and Related Factors
Tehran University of Medical Sciences|Tehran University of Medical Sciences|Tehran University of Medical Sciences|Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences|Zahedan University of Medical Sciences|Zahedan University of Medical Sciences
today one billion people globally suffer poverty food insecurity study aimed determine severity factors related household food insecurity zahedan southeastern iranthis crosssectional study conducted total 2160 households november 2014 december 2015 demographic socioeconomic data collected interviewing household mothers household food security status assessed usda 18item questionnaire data analyzed using chisquare test oneway anova logistic regression modeltotal food insecurity households investigated 588 significant associations p 0001 household food insecurity status socioeconomic status households ethnicity education age employment status head household mother householdthe results showed half households examined suffer food insecurity interventions improve food security status people designed implemented improve peoples knowledge skills attitudes related healthy eating food preparation peoples access healthy foods knowledge select healthy foods especially limited budget also improved