The association of the quality of life with Afghan households’ food insecurity before and after the recent political change in Afghanistan: a comparative analysis

The overreaching objective of the current study is to investigate the association of quality of life with Afghan households’ food insecurity. The data was collected immediately after the Taliban took control of a large part of Afghanistan. About a total of 555 households’ heads participated in a fac...

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Autores principales: Saif-Nijat, Jumakhan, Pakravan-Charvadeh, Mohammad Reza, Gholamrezai, Saeed, Rahimian, Mehdi, Lane, Ginny, Béland, Daniel, Koc, Mustafa, Clark, Nancy, Omidvar, Nasrin, Sadeghi, Rasoul, Vatanparast, Hassan
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10591381/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37872537
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16967-z
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author Saif-Nijat, Jumakhan
Pakravan-Charvadeh, Mohammad Reza
Gholamrezai, Saeed
Rahimian, Mehdi
Lane, Ginny
Béland, Daniel
Koc, Mustafa
Clark, Nancy
Omidvar, Nasrin
Sadeghi, Rasoul
Vatanparast, Hassan
author_facet Saif-Nijat, Jumakhan
Pakravan-Charvadeh, Mohammad Reza
Gholamrezai, Saeed
Rahimian, Mehdi
Lane, Ginny
Béland, Daniel
Koc, Mustafa
Clark, Nancy
Omidvar, Nasrin
Sadeghi, Rasoul
Vatanparast, Hassan
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description The overreaching objective of the current study is to investigate the association of quality of life with Afghan households’ food insecurity. The data was collected immediately after the Taliban took control of a large part of Afghanistan. About a total of 555 households’ heads participated in a face-to-face interview, using the HFIAS and WHOQOL-100 questionnaires along with some questions related to their socioeconomic characteristics at two different times, before and after the Taliban’s takeover. The comparative analysis showed that 98% of Afghan households were food insecure after the Taliban takeover, while 70% of them faced food insecurity before the Taliban’s takeover. The quality of life in the Taliban era is worse than before the Taliban. All dimensions of quality of life have decreased, and this decrease was more pronounced for the psychological, environmental, and physical domains. It is recommended that international organizations, NGOs, and local agents focus on these dimensions of the quality of life to improve food security.
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spelling pubmed-105913812023-10-24 The association of the quality of life with Afghan households’ food insecurity before and after the recent political change in Afghanistan: a comparative analysis Saif-Nijat, Jumakhan Pakravan-Charvadeh, Mohammad Reza Gholamrezai, Saeed Rahimian, Mehdi Lane, Ginny Béland, Daniel Koc, Mustafa Clark, Nancy Omidvar, Nasrin Sadeghi, Rasoul Vatanparast, Hassan BMC Public Health Research The overreaching objective of the current study is to investigate the association of quality of life with Afghan households’ food insecurity. The data was collected immediately after the Taliban took control of a large part of Afghanistan. About a total of 555 households’ heads participated in a face-to-face interview, using the HFIAS and WHOQOL-100 questionnaires along with some questions related to their socioeconomic characteristics at two different times, before and after the Taliban’s takeover. The comparative analysis showed that 98% of Afghan households were food insecure after the Taliban takeover, while 70% of them faced food insecurity before the Taliban’s takeover. The quality of life in the Taliban era is worse than before the Taliban. All dimensions of quality of life have decreased, and this decrease was more pronounced for the psychological, environmental, and physical domains. It is recommended that international organizations, NGOs, and local agents focus on these dimensions of the quality of life to improve food security. BioMed Central 2023-10-23 /pmc/articles/PMC10591381/ /pubmed/37872537 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16967-z Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Saif-Nijat, Jumakhan
Pakravan-Charvadeh, Mohammad Reza
Gholamrezai, Saeed
Rahimian, Mehdi
Lane, Ginny
Béland, Daniel
Koc, Mustafa
Clark, Nancy
Omidvar, Nasrin
Sadeghi, Rasoul
Vatanparast, Hassan
The association of the quality of life with Afghan households’ food insecurity before and after the recent political change in Afghanistan: a comparative analysis
title The association of the quality of life with Afghan households’ food insecurity before and after the recent political change in Afghanistan: a comparative analysis
title_full The association of the quality of life with Afghan households’ food insecurity before and after the recent political change in Afghanistan: a comparative analysis
title_fullStr The association of the quality of life with Afghan households’ food insecurity before and after the recent political change in Afghanistan: a comparative analysis
title_full_unstemmed The association of the quality of life with Afghan households’ food insecurity before and after the recent political change in Afghanistan: a comparative analysis
title_short The association of the quality of life with Afghan households’ food insecurity before and after the recent political change in Afghanistan: a comparative analysis
title_sort association of the quality of life with afghan households’ food insecurity before and after the recent political change in afghanistan: a comparative analysis
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10591381/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37872537
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16967-z
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