SCALES FOR MEASURING FOOD SECURITY IN COLOMBIA. ARE THEY VALID?

被引:11
作者
Jimenez S, Ana Zulema [1 ]
Prada G, Gloria Esperanza [2 ,3 ]
Herran F, Oscar Fernando [2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Secretaria Dist Salud Bogota, Bogota, Colombia
[2] Univ Ind Santander, Escuela Nutr & Dietet, Bucaramanga, Colombia
[3] Univ Ind Santander, Observ Epidemiol Enfermedades Cardiovasc, Ctr Invest Epidemiol, Bucaramanga, Colombia
来源
REVISTA CHILENA DE NUTRICION | 2012年 / 39卷 / 01期
关键词
Food security; reproducibility of results; validity of the test; hunger; Colombia;
D O I
10.4067/S0717-75182012000100001
中图分类号
R15 [营养卫生、食品卫生]; TS201 [基础科学];
学科分类号
100403 ;
摘要
The aim of this study was to assess reproducibility in four Colombian cities of the results obtained on food insecurity (INSA) comparing it with the factorial and criterion validity of the Food Security Perceptions scale (EPSA) and the Latin American and Caribbean (ELCSA) methods in homes from urban and rural area based on the usual consumption of energy for all household members. The reproducibility was 0.51 for EPSA and 0.56 for ELCSA. The sensitivity of the EPSA was between 39.6% and 40.5% and for the ELCSA between 62.6% and 62.2%. The agreement against the reference for the EPSA was between 0.10 and 0.18, for ELCSA was between 0.09 and 0.13. The efficiency of the two tests as a global measure of reliability is just greater than the probability in a coin toss. The results of these scales should be used conservatively.
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