Reliability and validity of an individually focused food insecurity access scale for assessing inadequate access to food among pregnant Ugandan women of mixed HIV status
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Reliability and validity of an individually focused food insecurity access scale for assessing inadequate access to food among pregnant Ugandan women of mixed HIV status.
OBJECTIVE To determine the reliability, validity and correlates of measures of food insecurity (FI) obtained using an individually focused food insecurity access scale (IFIAS) among pregnant women of mixed HIV status in northern Uganda. DESIGN A mixed-methods study involving cognitive interviews nested within a cross-sectional survey. SETTING The antenatal care clinic of Gulu Regional Refer...
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عنوان ژورنال: Public Health Nutrition
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1368-9800,1475-2727
DOI: 10.1017/s1368980014001669