Prevalence and factors associated with food insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic
Objective: We assessed the prevalence of food insecurity (FI) and its associated factors in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) early during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: We performed secondary data analysis of a survey conducted by Facebook and the University of Maryland. We included adults su...
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| author | Vicente A. Benites-Zapata Diego Urrunaga-Pastor Mayra L. Solorzano-Vargas Percy Herrera-Añazco Angela Uyen-Cateriano Guido Bendezu-Quispe Carlos J. Toro-Huamanchumo Adrian V. Hernandez |
| author_facet | Vicente A. Benites-Zapata Diego Urrunaga-Pastor Mayra L. Solorzano-Vargas Percy Herrera-Añazco Angela Uyen-Cateriano Guido Bendezu-Quispe Carlos J. Toro-Huamanchumo Adrian V. Hernandez |
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| description | Objective: We assessed the prevalence of food insecurity (FI) and its associated factors in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) early during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: We performed secondary data analysis of a survey conducted by Facebook and the University of Maryland. We included adults surveyed from April to May 2020. FI was measured by concerns about having enough to eat during the following week. Sociodemographic, mental health, and COVID-19-related variables were collected. We performed generalized Poisson regressions models considering the complex sampling design. We estimated crude and adjusted prevalence ratios with their 95% confidence intervals. Results: We included 1,324,272 adults; 50.5% were female, 42.9% were under 35 years old, 78.9% lived in a city, and 18.6% had COVID-19 symptoms. The prevalence of food insecurity in LAC was 75.7% (n = 1,016,841), with Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Haiti with 90.8%, 86.7%, and 85.5%, respectively, showing the highest prevalence. Gender, area of residence, presence of COVID-19 symptoms, and fear of getting seriously ill or that a family member gets seriously ill from COVID-19 were associated with a higher prevalence of food insecurity. In contrast, increasing age was associated with a lower prevalence. Conclusion: The prevalence of food insecurity during the first stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in LAC was high and was associated with sociodemographic and COVID-19-related variables. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8de0385d4e2a4bb69fd8397df264832a2022-12-21T21:35:41ZengElsevierHeliyon2405-84402021-10-01710e08091Prevalence and factors associated with food insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemicVicente A. Benites-Zapata0Diego Urrunaga-Pastor1Mayra L. Solorzano-Vargas2Percy Herrera-Añazco3Angela Uyen-Cateriano4Guido Bendezu-Quispe5Carlos J. Toro-Huamanchumo6Adrian V. Hernandez7Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Unidad para la Generación y Síntesis de Evidencias en Salud, Lima, Peru; Red Internacional en Salud Colectiva y Salud Intercultural, México, Mexico; Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Doctorado de Nutrición y Alimentos, Lima, Peru; Corresponding author.Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru; Instituto de Evaluación de Tecnologías en Salud e Investigación – IETSI, EsSalud, Lima, PeruUniversidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Unidad para la Generación y Síntesis de Evidencias en Salud, Lima, PeruRed Internacional en Salud Colectiva y Salud Intercultural, México, Mexico; Instituto de Evaluación de Tecnologías en Salud e Investigación – IETSI, EsSalud, Lima, Peru; Universidad Privada San Juan Bautista, Lima, PeruMedecins Sans Frontieres, Health Politics, Brussels, BelgiumRed Internacional en Salud Colectiva y Salud Intercultural, México, Mexico; Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, Centro de Investigación Epidemiológica en Salud Global, Lima, PeruUniversidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Unidad para la Generación y Síntesis de Evidencias en Salud, Lima, Peru; Clínica Avendaño, Unidad de Investigación Multidisciplinaria, Lima, PeruHealth Outcomes, Policy, and Evidence Synthesis (HOPES) group, University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, Storrs, CT, USA; Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Unidad de Revisiones Sistemáticas y Metaanálisis, Guías de Práctica Clínica y Evaluaciones Tecnológicas Sanitarias, Lima, PeruObjective: We assessed the prevalence of food insecurity (FI) and its associated factors in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) early during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: We performed secondary data analysis of a survey conducted by Facebook and the University of Maryland. We included adults surveyed from April to May 2020. FI was measured by concerns about having enough to eat during the following week. Sociodemographic, mental health, and COVID-19-related variables were collected. We performed generalized Poisson regressions models considering the complex sampling design. We estimated crude and adjusted prevalence ratios with their 95% confidence intervals. Results: We included 1,324,272 adults; 50.5% were female, 42.9% were under 35 years old, 78.9% lived in a city, and 18.6% had COVID-19 symptoms. The prevalence of food insecurity in LAC was 75.7% (n = 1,016,841), with Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Haiti with 90.8%, 86.7%, and 85.5%, respectively, showing the highest prevalence. Gender, area of residence, presence of COVID-19 symptoms, and fear of getting seriously ill or that a family member gets seriously ill from COVID-19 were associated with a higher prevalence of food insecurity. In contrast, increasing age was associated with a lower prevalence. Conclusion: The prevalence of food insecurity during the first stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in LAC was high and was associated with sociodemographic and COVID-19-related variables.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844021021940Food insecurityCOVID-19SARS-CoV-2Latin America |
| spellingShingle | Vicente A. Benites-Zapata Diego Urrunaga-Pastor Mayra L. Solorzano-Vargas Percy Herrera-Añazco Angela Uyen-Cateriano Guido Bendezu-Quispe Carlos J. Toro-Huamanchumo Adrian V. Hernandez Prevalence and factors associated with food insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic Heliyon Food insecurity COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 Latin America |
| title | Prevalence and factors associated with food insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_full | Prevalence and factors associated with food insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_fullStr | Prevalence and factors associated with food insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence and factors associated with food insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_short | Prevalence and factors associated with food insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_sort | prevalence and factors associated with food insecurity in latin america and the caribbean during the first wave of the covid 19 pandemic |
| topic | Food insecurity COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 Latin America |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844021021940 |
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