Wehler Cheryl, Weinreb Linda F, Huntington Nicholas, Scott Richard, Hosmer David, Fletcher Kenneth, Goldberg Robert, Gundersen Craig
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, 01655, USA.
Am J Public Health. 2004 Jan;94(1):109-15. doi: 10.2105/ajph.94.1.109.
We sought to identify factors associated with adult or child hunger.
Low-income housed and homeless mothers were interviewed about socioeconomic, psychosocial, health, and food sufficiency information. Multinomial logistic regression produced models predicting adult or child hunger.
Predictors of adult hunger included mothers' childhood sexual molestation and current parenting difficulties, or "hassles." Risk factors for child hunger included mothers' childhood sexual molestation, housing subsidies, brief local residence, having more or older children, and substandard housing.
This study found that the odds of hunger, although affected by resource constraints in low-income female-headed families, were also worsened by mothers' poor physical and mental health. Eliminating hunger thus may require broader interventions than food programs.
我们试图确定与成人或儿童饥饿相关的因素。
对低收入有住房和无家可归的母亲进行访谈，了解她们的社会经济、心理社会、健康和食物充足情况信息。多项逻辑回归分析得出了预测成人或儿童饥饿情况的模型。
成人饥饿的预测因素包括母亲童年时期遭受的性侵犯以及当前育儿困难或“麻烦事”。儿童饥饿的风险因素包括母亲童年时期遭受的性侵犯、住房补贴、在当地短暂居住、子女数量较多或年龄较大以及住房条件差。
本研究发现，饥饿的几率虽然受到低收入单亲家庭资源限制的影响，但母亲的身心健康不佳也会使其恶化。因此，消除饥饿可能需要比食品项目更广泛的干预措施。
