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Risk and Protective Factors for Adult and Child Hunger among Low-Income Housed and Homeless Female-Headed Families

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  • Wehler, C.
  • Weinreb, L.F.
  • Huntington, N.
  • Scott, R.
  • Hosmer, D.
  • Fletcher, K.
  • Goldberg, R.
  • Gundersen, C.

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Objectives. We sought to identify factors associated with adult or child hunger. Methods. Low-income housed and homeless mothers were interviewed about socio-economic, psychosocial, health, and food sufficiency information. Multinomial logistic regression produced models predicting adult or child hunger. Results. 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. Conclusions. 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.

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  • Wehler, C. & Weinreb, L.F. & Huntington, N. & Scott, R. & Hosmer, D. & Fletcher, K. & Goldberg, R. & Gundersen, C., 2004. "Risk and Protective Factors for Adult and Child Hunger among Low-Income Housed and Homeless Female-Headed Families," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 94(1), pages 109-115.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:2004:94:1:109-115_5
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    1. Helms, Veronica E. & Coleman-Jensen, Alisha & Gray, Regina & Brucker, Debra L., 2020. "Household Food Insecurity and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Federal Housing Assistance," Agricultural Economic Reports 307395, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    2. Helms, Veronica E & Coleman-Jensen, Alisha & Gray, Regina & Brucker, Debra L, 2020. "Household Food Insecurity and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Federal Housing Assistance," Economic Research Report 327205, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    3. Rachael D. Dombrowski & Bree Bode & Kathryn A. G. Knoff & James Mallare & E. Whitney G. Moore & Noel Kulik, 2021. "Nutrition Supports Deconstructed and Disrupted: An Evaluation of a Multilevel School-Based Intervention during the Time of COVID," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(21), pages 1-16, October.
    4. Barrett Lee & Adam Lippert, 2021. "Food insecurity among homeless and precariously housed children in the United States: Lessons from the past," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 45(37), pages 1115-1148.
    5. Geneviève Jessiman-Perreault & Lynn McIntyre, 2019. "Household Food Insecurity Narrows the Sex Gap in Five Adverse Mental Health Outcomes among Canadian Adults," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(3), pages 1-15, January.
    6. Wu, Qiong & Harwood, Robin L. & Feng, Xin, 2018. "Family socioeconomic status and maternal depressive symptoms: Mediation through household food insecurity across five years," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 215(C), pages 1-6.

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