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Household Food Insecurity and Associated Factors among Iranian Patients with Esophageal and Gastric Cancers

Background: Household food insecurity (HFI) which has still been one of the major global public health issues is related to adverse health outcomes in individuals. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the prevalence of HFI and its associated factors in Iranian patients with esophageal and gastri...

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Autores principales: Sohrabi, Masoudreza, Mollanoroozy, Ensiyeh, Abbasi, Hamid, Mehrabadi, Shima, Zamani, Farhad, Ajdarkosh, Hossein, Hatamian, Sare, Bahavar, Atefeh, Safarnezhad Tameshkel, Fahimeh, Gholami, Ali
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Iranian Association of Gastroerterology and Hepatology 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10404090/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37546504
http://dx.doi.org/10.34172/mejdd.2023.326
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author Sohrabi, Masoudreza
Mollanoroozy, Ensiyeh
Abbasi, Hamid
Mehrabadi, Shima
Zamani, Farhad
Ajdarkosh, Hossein
Hatamian, Sare
Bahavar, Atefeh
Safarnezhad Tameshkel, Fahimeh
Gholami, Ali
author_facet Sohrabi, Masoudreza
Mollanoroozy, Ensiyeh
Abbasi, Hamid
Mehrabadi, Shima
Zamani, Farhad
Ajdarkosh, Hossein
Hatamian, Sare
Bahavar, Atefeh
Safarnezhad Tameshkel, Fahimeh
Gholami, Ali
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description Background: Household food insecurity (HFI) which has still been one of the major global public health issues is related to adverse health outcomes in individuals. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the prevalence of HFI and its associated factors in Iranian patients with esophageal and gastric cancers. Methods: The data of this cross-sectional study was obtained from 315 patients with esophageal and gastric cancers who were selected from a gastrointestinal cancer-based cohort study conducted in Firoozgar hospital, in Tehran. Food insecurity (FI) was measured using the Iranian version of the HFI questionnaire that was completed by a trained interviewer. The multivariable logistic regression model was used to determine the independent association of each factor with HFI. A P value lower than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: The mean±SD of participants’ age was 63.2±12.6 years and 65.4% were men. Most of the patients (75.8%) suffered from gastric cancer and 24.2% from esophageal cancer. The overall prevalence of FI among participants’ households was 35.2%. There was an independent significant association between wealth index (WI) and HFI after the use of the multivariable logistic regression model, in such a way that the odds of FI in the poorest, poor, moderate, and rich patients’ households were respectively, 6.41, 5.05, 2.74 and 2.04 times higher compared with the richest households. Conclusion: More than a third of participants’ households struggled with FI, which was found to have a higher prevalence in loweconomic households. Therefore, health policymakers should intervene in food-insecure households by developing, establishing, and implementing strategies and control programs to improve affordable food access.
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spelling pubmed-104040902023-08-06 Household Food Insecurity and Associated Factors among Iranian Patients with Esophageal and Gastric Cancers Sohrabi, Masoudreza Mollanoroozy, Ensiyeh Abbasi, Hamid Mehrabadi, Shima Zamani, Farhad Ajdarkosh, Hossein Hatamian, Sare Bahavar, Atefeh Safarnezhad Tameshkel, Fahimeh Gholami, Ali Middle East J Dig Dis Original Article Background: Household food insecurity (HFI) which has still been one of the major global public health issues is related to adverse health outcomes in individuals. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the prevalence of HFI and its associated factors in Iranian patients with esophageal and gastric cancers. Methods: The data of this cross-sectional study was obtained from 315 patients with esophageal and gastric cancers who were selected from a gastrointestinal cancer-based cohort study conducted in Firoozgar hospital, in Tehran. Food insecurity (FI) was measured using the Iranian version of the HFI questionnaire that was completed by a trained interviewer. The multivariable logistic regression model was used to determine the independent association of each factor with HFI. A P value lower than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: The mean±SD of participants’ age was 63.2±12.6 years and 65.4% were men. Most of the patients (75.8%) suffered from gastric cancer and 24.2% from esophageal cancer. The overall prevalence of FI among participants’ households was 35.2%. There was an independent significant association between wealth index (WI) and HFI after the use of the multivariable logistic regression model, in such a way that the odds of FI in the poorest, poor, moderate, and rich patients’ households were respectively, 6.41, 5.05, 2.74 and 2.04 times higher compared with the richest households. Conclusion: More than a third of participants’ households struggled with FI, which was found to have a higher prevalence in loweconomic households. Therefore, health policymakers should intervene in food-insecure households by developing, establishing, and implementing strategies and control programs to improve affordable food access. Iranian Association of Gastroerterology and Hepatology 2023-04 2023-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10404090/ /pubmed/37546504 http://dx.doi.org/10.34172/mejdd.2023.326 Text en © 2023 Middle East Journal of Digestive Diseases https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This work is published by Middle East Journal of Digestive Diseases as an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ). Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sohrabi, Masoudreza
Mollanoroozy, Ensiyeh
Abbasi, Hamid
Mehrabadi, Shima
Zamani, Farhad
Ajdarkosh, Hossein
Hatamian, Sare
Bahavar, Atefeh
Safarnezhad Tameshkel, Fahimeh
Gholami, Ali
Household Food Insecurity and Associated Factors among Iranian Patients with Esophageal and Gastric Cancers
title Household Food Insecurity and Associated Factors among Iranian Patients with Esophageal and Gastric Cancers
title_full Household Food Insecurity and Associated Factors among Iranian Patients with Esophageal and Gastric Cancers
title_fullStr Household Food Insecurity and Associated Factors among Iranian Patients with Esophageal and Gastric Cancers
title_full_unstemmed Household Food Insecurity and Associated Factors among Iranian Patients with Esophageal and Gastric Cancers
title_short Household Food Insecurity and Associated Factors among Iranian Patients with Esophageal and Gastric Cancers
title_sort household food insecurity and associated factors among iranian patients with esophageal and gastric cancers
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10404090/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37546504
http://dx.doi.org/10.34172/mejdd.2023.326
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