Takele Gezahegn Demie|Getachew Tilahun Gessese
Household food insecurity and hunger status in Debre Berhan town, Central Ethiopia: Community-based cross-sectional study
Debre Berhan University|St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College|St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College
food security occurs people physical social economic access sufficient safe nutritious food fits dietary needs food preferences active healthy life times limited evidence topic well studied ethiopiathis study aimed investigate food insecurity hunger status among households hhs debre berhan town ethiopiaa communitybased crosssectional study undertaken 1 january 2017 30 january 2017 simple random sampling technique used enroll 395 hhs study intervieweradministered structured pretested questionnaire used collect data facetoface interview household food security hunger status assessed using household food insecurity access scale household hunger scale respectively data entered cleaned using epiata 31 exported spss software version 20 statistical analysis logistic regression fitted odds ratio 95 confidence interval ci value p less 005 used identify factors associated food insecuritya total 377 hhs participated study response rate 954 proportion households food insecurity 324 among mild moderate severe food insecurity accounted 103 188 32 respectively mean score household food insecurity access scale 188 35 hunger occurred among 32 households mean score household hunger scale 217 103 husband male cohabitants occupation aor 268 95 ci 131548 wife female cohabitants literacy aor 310 95 ci 101 955 factors associated hh food insecurityhh food insecurity hunger debre berhan town unacceptably high hamper achieving national targets food security nutrition health intensified efforts needed accelerate decline food insecurity hunger prevalence therefore interventions need target selfemployed merchants small businesses women uneducated