Validity of the Food Insecurity Experience Scale for Use in Sub-Saharan Africa and Characteristics of Food-Insecure Individuals | Zendy

Edwina Wambogo | Zendy; Hala Ghattas | Zendy; Kenneth L. Leonard | Zendy; Nadine R. Sahyoun | Zendy

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Validity of the Food Insecurity Experience Scale for Use in Sub-Saharan Africa and Characteristics of Food-Insecure Individuals

Author(s) -

Edwina Wambogo,

Hala Ghattas,

Kenneth L. Leonard,

Nadine R. Sahyoun

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

current developments in nutrition

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904

H-Index - 14

ISSN - 2475-2991

DOI - 10.1093/cdn/nzy062

Subject(s) - food insecurity , rasch model , scale (ratio) , environmental health , geography , food security , psychology , demography , socioeconomics , medicine , agriculture , economics , sociology , cartography , developmental psychology , archaeology

FIES has acceptable levels of internal validity for use in SSA. However, the item "went without eating for a whole day" may need cognitive testing in a few SSA countries. For countries with correlated items, 1 of the items may be excluded.

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