Sellen Daniel W, Tedstone Alison E, Frize Jacqueline
Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Public Health Nutr. 2002 Oct;5(5):637-44. doi: 10.1079/PHN2002340.
To identify child hunger and examine its association with family factors, receipt of benefits, housing conditions and social support among recently arrived refugee families with young children.
Structured and semi-structured questionnaire administered to a service-based, purposive sample of caregivers.
East London, United Kingdom.
Thirty households with children <5 years old, resident in the UK for <2 years.
All households sampled were food-insecure, and 60% of index children were experiencing hunger as defined on the Radimer/Cornell scale. Child hunger was significantly associated with recent arrival, marginally significantly associated with receipt of fewer benefits and younger parenthood, and not associated with maternal education or self-efficacy score, household size or composition, or measures of social support.
A community-based, participatory approach for rapid assessment of the prevalence, extent and causes of child hunger among newly arrived asylum seekers recently arrived in Britain is feasible, and preliminary results suggest a programmatic need for a broader, population-based assessment of food insecurity in this rapidly growing population group.
识别儿童饥饿问题，并研究其与近期抵达的有幼儿的难民家庭中的家庭因素、福利领取情况、住房条件及社会支持之间的关联。
对基于服务的有目的抽样的照料者进行结构化和半结构化问卷调查。
英国东伦敦。
30户有5岁以下儿童且在英国居住不满2年的家庭。
所有抽样家庭均面临粮食不安全问题，60%的指标儿童存在拉迪默/康奈尔量表所定义的饥饿情况。儿童饥饿与近期抵达显著相关，与领取福利较少及父母较年轻有微弱显著关联，与母亲教育程度或自我效能得分、家庭规模或构成以及社会支持措施无关。
采用基于社区的参与式方法快速评估近期抵达英国的新寻求庇护者中儿童饥饿的患病率、程度及原因是可行的，初步结果表明有必要针对这一快速增长的人群开展更广泛的基于人群的粮食不安全评估项目。
