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0497/2018 - Food Insecurity in rural families in the extreme south of Brazil.
Insegurança Alimentar em famílias de área rural do extremo sul do Brasil.

Author:

• Nathalia Matties Maas - Maas, N.M - <nathalia_maas@yahoo.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6949-8351

Co-author(s):

• Raul Andres Mendoza Sassi - Mendoza, R.A.M - <ramsassi@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4641-9056
• Rodrigo Dalke Meucci - Meucci, Rodrigo Dalke - <rodrigodalke@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8941-3850
• Juraci Cesar - Cesar, J - <juraci.a.cesar@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0864-0486


Abstract:

The objective of the study was to track the prevalence of Food Insecurity (FI) and to study associated factors in households with children, women and the elderly in the rural area of the city of Rio Grande, RS. It was a cross-sectional population-based study, with systematic sampling to 80% of permanently inhabited households. A reduced version of the Brazilian Scale of Food Insecurity was used. The associated factors included data referring to the head of the family, as well as data referring to the household. Prevalences and prevalence ratios and their respective Confidence Intervals were calculated for Food Insecurity through Poisson Regression with robust variance. Of the 1,627 domiciles interviewed, 26% (CI95% 23% - 28%) were in an FI situation, being greater (44%) in those households that contained the three populations. The most affected those in whom the head of the family had less than four years of schooling, with more residents, without raising of animals for sale or family consumption, belonging to the lowest income quartile and receiving benefitsthe Bolsa Família Program. Already the least affected were those households the household chief was 70 or more. The present study showed the importance and the dimension of the FI problem in the rural region of Rio Grande, since the actual FI prevalence of this region is not known.

Keywords:

Food and Nutrition Security, Prevalence, Rural Population, Risk Factors.

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Maas, N.M, Mendoza, R.A.M, Meucci, Rodrigo Dalke, Cesar, J. Food Insecurity in rural families in the extreme south of Brazil.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2018/Nov). [Citado em 22/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/food-insecurity-in-rural-families-in-the-extreme-south-of-brazil/17030?id=17030&id=17030



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