Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Public Health Nutr. 2012 May;15(5):818-26. doi: 10.1017/S1368980011002461. Epub 2011 Oct 24.
To explore associations between household food security and home gardening, use of soya and pressure cooker ownership in low-income households affected by HIV/AIDS in Aurangabad, India.
Cross-sectional pilot study which assessed household food security using the validated US Department of Agriculture's food security core-module questionnaire. Questions were added to explore household environment, education, occupation, home gardening, use of soya and pressure cooker ownership. Households with very low v. low food security were compared using logistic regression analysis, controlling for confounding by socio-economic status.
Aurangabad is an urban setting situated in a primarily agricultural dependent area. The study was carried out in 2008, at the peak of the global food crisis.
Adult caregivers of children affiliated with the Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Aurangabad.
All except for one of 133 households were identified as food insecure (99.2 %). Of these households, 35.6 % had to cut size or skip a meal in the past 30 d. Households that cut meal size due to cooking fuel shortages were more likely to have very low food security (OR = 4.67; 95 % CI 1.62, 13.44) compared with households having no cooking fuel shortages. Owning a pressure cooker was shown to be protective against very low food security after controlling for confounding by socio-economic status (OR = 0.27; 95 % CI 0.11, 0.64).
Only pressure cooker ownership showed a protective association with low household food security. Pressure cookers save household fuel costs. Therefore, future interventions should explore pressure cookers as a sustainable means of improving household food security.
探讨印度奥兰加巴德受艾滋病毒/艾滋病影响的低收入家庭中，家庭粮食安全与家庭园艺、大豆使用和高压锅拥有情况之间的关联。
采用经过验证的美国农业部粮食安全核心模块问卷，对家庭粮食安全进行评估的横断面试点研究。此外还增加了一些问题，以探索家庭环境、教育、职业、家庭园艺、大豆使用和高压锅拥有情况。使用逻辑回归分析，控制社会经济地位的混杂因素，比较非常低/低粮食安全家庭。
奥兰加巴德是一个城市环境，位于一个主要依赖农业的地区。该研究于 2008 年在全球粮食危机高峰期进行，当时参加的是艾滋病患者网络中的成年儿童照顾者。
133 户家庭中除 1 户外，其余均被认定为粮食不安全（99.2%）。在这些家庭中，35.6%的家庭在过去 30 天里不得不减少食物份量或不吃某一餐。由于烹饪燃料短缺而减少用餐份量的家庭更有可能出现非常低的粮食安全（OR=4.67；95%CI 1.62，13.44），而没有烹饪燃料短缺的家庭则不然。在控制了社会经济地位的混杂因素后，拥有高压锅被证明对非常低的粮食安全具有保护作用（OR=0.27；95%CI 0.11，0.64）。
只有高压锅的拥有情况与家庭粮食安全的低度保障呈保护关联。高压锅可以节省家庭燃料成本。因此，未来的干预措施应该探索高压锅作为提高家庭粮食安全的可持续手段。
