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Temporal Trends in Food Insecurity (Hunger) among School-Going Adolescents from 31 Countries from Africa, Asia, and the Americas

(1) Background: Temporal trends of food insecurity among adolescents are largely unknown. Therefore, we aimed to examine this trend among school-going adolescents aged 12–15 years from 31 countries in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. (2) Methods: Data from the Global School-based Student Health Surve...

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Autores principales: Smith, Lee, López Sánchez, Guillermo F., Tully, Mark A., Jacob, Louis, Kostev, Karel, Oh, Hans, Butler, Laurie, Barnett, Yvonne, Shin, Jae Il, Koyanagi, Ai
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10385660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37513642
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15143226
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author Smith, Lee
López Sánchez, Guillermo F.
Tully, Mark A.
Jacob, Louis
Kostev, Karel
Oh, Hans
Butler, Laurie
Barnett, Yvonne
Shin, Jae Il
Koyanagi, Ai
author_facet Smith, Lee
López Sánchez, Guillermo F.
Tully, Mark A.
Jacob, Louis
Kostev, Karel
Oh, Hans
Butler, Laurie
Barnett, Yvonne
Shin, Jae Il
Koyanagi, Ai
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description (1) Background: Temporal trends of food insecurity among adolescents are largely unknown. Therefore, we aimed to examine this trend among school-going adolescents aged 12–15 years from 31 countries in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. (2) Methods: Data from the Global School-based Student Health Survey 2003–2017 were analyzed in 193,388 students [mean (SD) age: 13.7 (1.0) years; 49.0% boys]. The prevalence and 95%CI of moderate (rarely/sometimes hungry), severe (most of the time/always hungry), and any (moderate or severe) food insecurity (past 30-day) was calculated for each survey. Crude linear trends in food insecurity were assessed by linear regression models. (3) Results: The mean prevalence of any food insecurity was 52.2% (moderate 46.5%; severe 5.7%). Significant increasing and decreasing trends of any food insecurity were found in seven countries each. A sizeable decrease and increase were observed in Benin (71.2% in 2009 to 49.2% in 2016) and Mauritius (25.0% in 2011 to 43.6% in 2017), respectively. Severe food insecurity increased in countries such as Vanuatu (4.9% in 2011 to 8.4% in 2016) and Mauritius (3.5% in 2011 to 8.2% in 2017). The rate of decrease was modest in most countries with a significant decreasing trend, while many countries with stable trends showed consistently high prevalence of food insecurity. (4) Conclusion: Global action is urgently required to address food insecurity among adolescents, as our data show that achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2 to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition by 2030 would be difficult without strong global commitment.
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spelling pubmed-103856602023-07-30 Temporal Trends in Food Insecurity (Hunger) among School-Going Adolescents from 31 Countries from Africa, Asia, and the Americas Smith, Lee López Sánchez, Guillermo F. Tully, Mark A. Jacob, Louis Kostev, Karel Oh, Hans Butler, Laurie Barnett, Yvonne Shin, Jae Il Koyanagi, Ai Nutrients Article (1) Background: Temporal trends of food insecurity among adolescents are largely unknown. Therefore, we aimed to examine this trend among school-going adolescents aged 12–15 years from 31 countries in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. (2) Methods: Data from the Global School-based Student Health Survey 2003–2017 were analyzed in 193,388 students [mean (SD) age: 13.7 (1.0) years; 49.0% boys]. The prevalence and 95%CI of moderate (rarely/sometimes hungry), severe (most of the time/always hungry), and any (moderate or severe) food insecurity (past 30-day) was calculated for each survey. Crude linear trends in food insecurity were assessed by linear regression models. (3) Results: The mean prevalence of any food insecurity was 52.2% (moderate 46.5%; severe 5.7%). Significant increasing and decreasing trends of any food insecurity were found in seven countries each. A sizeable decrease and increase were observed in Benin (71.2% in 2009 to 49.2% in 2016) and Mauritius (25.0% in 2011 to 43.6% in 2017), respectively. Severe food insecurity increased in countries such as Vanuatu (4.9% in 2011 to 8.4% in 2016) and Mauritius (3.5% in 2011 to 8.2% in 2017). The rate of decrease was modest in most countries with a significant decreasing trend, while many countries with stable trends showed consistently high prevalence of food insecurity. (4) Conclusion: Global action is urgently required to address food insecurity among adolescents, as our data show that achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2 to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition by 2030 would be difficult without strong global commitment. MDPI 2023-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10385660/ /pubmed/37513642 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15143226 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Smith, Lee
López Sánchez, Guillermo F.
Tully, Mark A.
Jacob, Louis
Kostev, Karel
Oh, Hans
Butler, Laurie
Barnett, Yvonne
Shin, Jae Il
Koyanagi, Ai
Temporal Trends in Food Insecurity (Hunger) among School-Going Adolescents from 31 Countries from Africa, Asia, and the Americas
title Temporal Trends in Food Insecurity (Hunger) among School-Going Adolescents from 31 Countries from Africa, Asia, and the Americas
title_full Temporal Trends in Food Insecurity (Hunger) among School-Going Adolescents from 31 Countries from Africa, Asia, and the Americas
title_fullStr Temporal Trends in Food Insecurity (Hunger) among School-Going Adolescents from 31 Countries from Africa, Asia, and the Americas
title_full_unstemmed Temporal Trends in Food Insecurity (Hunger) among School-Going Adolescents from 31 Countries from Africa, Asia, and the Americas
title_short Temporal Trends in Food Insecurity (Hunger) among School-Going Adolescents from 31 Countries from Africa, Asia, and the Americas
title_sort temporal trends in food insecurity (hunger) among school-going adolescents from 31 countries from africa, asia, and the americas
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10385660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37513642
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15143226
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