Author:

• Dayane de Castro Morais - Morais, D.C. - Viçosa, MG - <dayanecm@yahoo.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6439-7009

Co-author(s):

• Sílvia Oliveira Lopes - Lopes, Sílvia Oliveira - <silvia.lopes.nut@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6755-8610
• Silvia Eloíza Priore - Priore, S.E. - <sepriore@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0656-1485

Abstract:

The objective was to systematically investigate the indicators used in the evaluation of food and nutritional insecurity and associated factors in Brazilian studies. After ion in the databases and reverse search, using search terms included 89 articles. Most of these evaluated the food and nutritional insecurity second perception indicator, using the Brazilian Scale of Food Insecurity (83.1%), American Scale (5.62%) and isolated questions (2.25%). The others evaluated the presence of malnutrition in children (1.12%), food expenditure (1.12%), dietary intake of adult equivalent (1.12%), protocols (2.25%), and prediction models (2.25%). food and nutritional insecurity (measured by the different indicators) was associated with socioeconomic and demographic factors, health and lifestyle conditions, food consumption and nutritional status, with sample units, families, specific age groups, beneficiaries of government programs, among others. Most of the studies evaluated only the food dimension of the insecurity, reinforcing the difficulty of evaluating this complex situation.

Keywords:

Food and nutritional security, indicators, methodologies

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