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- Title
Screening for marginal food security in young children in primary care.
- Authors
Bayoumi, Imaan; Birken, Catherine S.; Nurse, Kimberly M.; Parkin, Patricia C.; Maguire, Jonathon L.; Macarthur, Colin; Randall Simpson, Janis A.; Borkhoff, Cornelia M.
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>Household food insecurity (FI), even at marginal levels, is associated with poor child health outcomes. The Nutrition Screening Tool for Every Preschooler (NutriSTEP®) is a valid and reliable 17-item parent-completed measure of nutrition risk and includes a single item addressing FI which may be a useful child-specific screening tool. We evaluated the diagnostic test properties of the single NutriSTEP® FI question using the 2-item Hunger Vital Sign™ as the criterion measure in a primary care population of healthy children ages 18 months to 5 years.<bold>Results: </bold>The sample included 1174 families, 53 (4.5%) of which were marginally food secure. An affirmative response to the single NutriSTEP® question "I have difficulty buying food I want to feed my child because food is expensive" had a sensitivity of 85% and specificity of 91% and demonstrated good construct validity when compared with the Hunger Vital Sign™.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>The single NutriSTEP® question may be an effective screening tool in clinical practice to identify marginal food security in families with young children and to link families with community-based services or financial assistance programs including tax benefits.<bold>Trial Registration: </bold>TARGet Kids! practice-based research network (Registered June 5, 2013 at www.clinicaltrials.gov ; NCT01869530); www.targetkids.ca.
- Subjects
FOOD security; PRIMARY care; POOR children; TAX benefits; FAMILY services
- Publication
BMC Pediatrics, 2021, Vol 21, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1471-2431
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1186/s12887-021-02674-4