Food Security and Nutritional Outcomes of Preschool-Age Mexican-American Children
Journal of the American Dietetic AssociationPublished 1 July 2002
Lucía Kaiser, Cathi Lamp, Margaret Johns, Jeanette Sutherlin, Janice O. Harwood, Hugo Melgar‐Quiñonez
Citations265
Generate an AI Snapshot to get a quick, structured summary of this paper.
Study Snapshot
ObjectiveStudy objective
MethodsResearch methodology
PopulationPopulation studied
Sample sizeSample sizes
OutcomesStudy outcomes here
ResultsStudy results comes here
LimitationsResearch study limitations comes here
A concise AI-generated summary of the paper will appear here once you click Generate AI Snapshot.
TL;DR
Dietetics professionals working with low-income Hispanic-American families should screen for different levels of food insecurity to determine needs for nutrition education and other services.
Abstract
Dietetics professionals working with low-income Hispanic-American families should screen for different levels of food insecurity to determine needs for nutrition education and other services.
Keywords
MedicineHealth ProfessionsNursing
American Journal of Clinical NutritionPhysical growth: National Center for Health Statistics percentiles
2,363 Citations1979P V Hamill, TA Drizd +4 more
The new National Center for Health Statistics percentiles can be used to improve identification of potential health and nutritional problems and to facilitate the epidemological comparison of one group of children with others.
Clinical NutritionAnthropometric standards for the assessment of growth and nutritional status
1,203 Citations1991
Journal of NutritionCore Indicators of Nutritional State for Difficult-to-Sample Populations
1,174 Citations1990Sue Anderson
The Expert Panel recognized that they could not provide a comprehensive design for the evaluation of nutritional status for all difficult-to-sample populations that would be appropriate for all public health and policy purposes and concentrated their discussions on enumeration of the various issues that must be considered in planning any effort to evaluate the nutritional concerns for such populations.
Hispanic Journal of Behavioral SciencesA New Measurement of Acculturation for Hispanics: The Bidimensional Acculturation Scale for Hispanics (BAS)
900 Citations1996Gerardo Marín, Raymond J. Gamba
PEDIATRICSFood Intakes of US Children and Adolescents Compared With Recommendations
566 Citations1997Kathryn A. Muñoz, Susan M. Krebs‐Smith +2 more
Children and teens in the United States follow eating patterns that do not meet national recommendations, and nutrition education and intervention are needed among US children.
Journal of NutritionDevelopment of Indicators to Assess Hunger
560 Citations1990Kathy Radimer, Christine M. Olson +1 more
A subset of valid and reliable items that represented each of the major dimensions and components of hunger was identified as being useful for monitoring and assessing hunger.
Journal of NutritionNutrition and Health Outcomes Associated with Food Insecurity and Hunger
545 Citations1999Christine M. Olson
In a population-based sample of women of childbearing age, the least severe level of food insecurity (household food insecurity) was correlated with higher body mass index (BMI) and the risk of hunger and hunger were associated with compromised psychosocial functioning, controlling for maternal education and estimated household income.
Journal of the American Dietetic AssociationRelationship of Hunger and Food Insecurity to Food Availability and Consumption
520 Citations1996Anne Kendall, Christine M. Olson +1 more
In this rural population, the Radimer/Cornell measures were useful in identifying households experiencing food insecurity and providing information about the nature of the food supply and the dietary intake problems experienced by food insecure households and persons, suggesting that these measures may be useful on community surveys designed to examine food insecurity issues.
PEDIATRICSHunger in Children in the United States: Potential Behavioral and Emotional Correlates
421 Citations1998Ronald E. Kleinman, Jane M. Murphy +5 more
Children from families that report multiple experiences of food insufficiency and hunger are more likely to show behavioral, emotional, and academic problems on a standardized measure of psychosocial dysfunction than children from the same low-income communities whose families do not report experiences of hunger.
American Journal of Public HealthFood insufficiency exists in the United States: results from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III).
373 Citations1998Katherine Alaimo, Ronette Briefel +2 more
Food insufficiency is not limited to very low-income persons, specific racial/ethnic groups, family types, or the unemployed, and it was not related to family type or employment status of the family head.
Journal of NutritionValidation of Measures of Food Insecurity and Hunger
347 Citations1999Edward A. Frongillo
The results show that the construction of the national food security measure is well grounded in the understanding of food insecurity and hunger, its performance is consistent with that understanding, it is precise within usual performance standards, dependable, and accurate at both group and individual levels within reasonable performance standards.
PEDIATRICSDoes Hunger Cause Obesity?
330 Citations1995William H. Dietz
A 7-year-old African American girl first brought to the Weight Control Program of the Boston Floating Hospital in December 1992 is a case report that supports the hypothesis that hunger and obesity are causally related.
Journal of the American Dietetic AssociationA Food Variety Index for Toddlers (VIT)
73 Citations1997DANA R. COX, Jean D. Skinner +3 more
A Variety Index for Toddlers was developed to assess variety within and among food groups based on the number of servings from the food groups in the Food Guide Pyramid and can provide a numeric description of dietary variety specific to toddlers.
PubMedChanging eating patterns of American children: a view from 1996.
68 Citations1997Eileen Kennedy, Rdn Tamberly Powell
From 1986 to 1994, no distinct trends of the energy intakes of children 5 years of age and under were observed, but in 1994, a greater percentage of children were meeting the dietary guidelines for fat and saturated fat than in 1989-91.
Journal of the American Dietetic AssociationChild Feeding Strategies in Low-Income Latino Households
38 Citations1999Lucía Kaiser, NESTOR A MARTINEZ +2 more
PubMedSelf-regulation of food intake among rural Mexican preschool children.
29 Citations1990Sandra Garcia, Laurent Kaiser +1 more
The importance of the child's role in determining food intake, and of snacking to overall food consumption, was demonstrated and the amount consumed differed by age, gender, or socioeconomic status.