Journal article
Dietary Intake, Behaviors and Psychosocial Factors Among Women from Food-Secure and Food-Insecure Households in the United States
Ethnicity & disease, Vol.26(2), pp.139-146
04/21/2016
DOI: 10.18865/ed.26.2.139
PMCID: PMC4836893
PMID: 27103763
Abstract
Determine whether macro- and micro-nutrient intake, energy intake, diet quality, adherence to recommended dietary intake, and psychosocial and behavioral factors are associated with household food security.
Baseline data from in-person interviews and telephone-based, 24-hour dietary recall from women recruited to a diet and physical activity controlled trial.
Neighborhoods encompassing 18 urban census tracts in South Carolina.
Participants (n=202) were predominantly African American (87%), overweight or obese women aged 25 to 51 years with mean body mass index of 40.6±8.7.
Macro- and micro-nutrient intake, energy intake, diet quality, adherence to recommended dietary intake (via multi-pass, 24-h recall); diet-related self-efficacy and social support, healthy/lowfat and emotional eating behaviors, and depressive symptoms.
Women in food-secure (FS) and food insecure (FI) households were not different on health and sociodemographic characteristics. Women in FI households had lower self-efficacy and healthy/low-fat eating behaviors, and higher emotional eating and depressive symptoms compared with women in FS households. The groups did not differ on social support. Significant dietary differences were few (FS>FI on protein and lean meat; FS<FI on carbohydrate intake). For 29 of 35 (74%) dietary intake recommendations, less than 75% of women in both groups met each recommendation.
While food security status was associated with diet-related psychosocial and behavioral factors, it was associated with few aspects of dietary intake. Dietary intake overall was poor. Participants were not meeting guidelines for a diet supportive of general health or weight loss and management, regardless of food security status.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Dietary Intake, Behaviors and Psychosocial Factors Among Women from Food-Secure and Food-Insecure Households in the United States
- Creators
- Patricia A Sharpe - College of Social Work, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SCKara Whitaker - Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MNKassandra A Alia - Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SCSara Wilcox - Department of Exercise Science, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; Prevention Research Center, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SCBrent Hutto - Prevention Research Center, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Ethnicity & disease, Vol.26(2), pp.139-146
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.18865/ed.26.2.139
- PMID
- 27103763
- PMCID
- PMC4836893
- ISSN
- 1049-510X
- eISSN
- 1945-0826
- Grant note
- R01 DK074666 / NIDDK NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/21/2016
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology; Health and Human Physiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984002370302771
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