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Food security status of Suchana-participating households in north-eastern rural Bangladesh

Despite achieving remarkable progress, food insecurity remains a major public health challenge in Bangladesh, and severe food insecurity status has not been reduced in susceptible areas and vulnerable regions in Bangladesh. Wetlands that are susceptible to flooding can be found in Bangladesh's...

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Autores principales: Haque, Md Ahshanul, Choudhury, Nuzhat, Ahmed, S. M. Tanvir, Farzana, Fahmida Dil, Ali, Mohammad, Naz, Farina, Khan, Ashfaque, Wahid, Barbie Zaman, Siddiqua, Towfida Jahan, Akter, Rumana, Rahman, Sheikh Shahed, Faruque, A. S. G., Ahmed, Tahmeed
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9513544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36176515
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.950676
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author Haque, Md Ahshanul
Choudhury, Nuzhat
Ahmed, S. M. Tanvir
Farzana, Fahmida Dil
Ali, Mohammad
Naz, Farina
Khan, Ashfaque
Wahid, Barbie Zaman
Siddiqua, Towfida Jahan
Akter, Rumana
Rahman, Sheikh Shahed
Faruque, A. S. G.
Ahmed, Tahmeed
author_facet Haque, Md Ahshanul
Choudhury, Nuzhat
Ahmed, S. M. Tanvir
Farzana, Fahmida Dil
Ali, Mohammad
Naz, Farina
Khan, Ashfaque
Wahid, Barbie Zaman
Siddiqua, Towfida Jahan
Akter, Rumana
Rahman, Sheikh Shahed
Faruque, A. S. G.
Ahmed, Tahmeed
author_sort Haque, Md Ahshanul
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description Despite achieving remarkable progress, food insecurity remains a major public health challenge in Bangladesh, and severe food insecurity status has not been reduced in susceptible areas and vulnerable regions in Bangladesh. Wetlands that are susceptible to flooding can be found in Bangladesh's north-eastern Sylhet division. Suchana, a large-scale nutrition programme, implemented nutrition-specific and sensitive interventions in poor and very poor households in Sylhet and Moulvibazar districts in the north-eastern region of Bangladesh. The aim of this article is to assess the association between the Suchana intervention and household food security status among poor and very poor households in north-eastern rural Bangladesh using the Suchana baseline and endline survey databases. The baseline survey was conducted between November 2016 and February 2017, while the endline survey was undertaken 3 years later, during the same months. The outcome variable in this analysis was household food security status, which was measured using the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance's Guideline. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the data; after controlling for the union as a cluster and relevant covariates, a multiple multinomial logistic regression model was used to estimate the independent effect of the Suchana intervention as an exposure. Overall, 14.0% of households were food secure at the baseline survey (intervention: 14.1%, control: 14.0%) and 22.0% were food secure (intervention: 26.6%, control: 20.2%) at the endline survey. For households in the intervention area in comparison to the control area, the odds of being moderately food insecure [aOR: 1.36 (1.05, 1.76), p < 0.05], mildly food insecure [aOR: 1.83 (1.33, 2.51), p < 0.001], or food secure [aOR: 2.21 (1.47, 3.33), p < 0.001] compared to being severely food insecure was significantly higher. Thus, we infer that the 3 years of Suchana intervention marginally increased household food security status among the socio-economically disadvantaged population in north-eastern rural Bangladesh. If concerns regarding gender equity, women's education, and income-generating activities are addressed, the population could experience even greater benefits in food security. In order to overcome these challenges, all stakeholders including programme implementers and policymakers should work together to implement the appropriate measures.
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spelling pubmed-95135442022-09-28 Food security status of Suchana-participating households in north-eastern rural Bangladesh Haque, Md Ahshanul Choudhury, Nuzhat Ahmed, S. M. Tanvir Farzana, Fahmida Dil Ali, Mohammad Naz, Farina Khan, Ashfaque Wahid, Barbie Zaman Siddiqua, Towfida Jahan Akter, Rumana Rahman, Sheikh Shahed Faruque, A. S. G. Ahmed, Tahmeed Front Public Health Public Health Despite achieving remarkable progress, food insecurity remains a major public health challenge in Bangladesh, and severe food insecurity status has not been reduced in susceptible areas and vulnerable regions in Bangladesh. Wetlands that are susceptible to flooding can be found in Bangladesh's north-eastern Sylhet division. Suchana, a large-scale nutrition programme, implemented nutrition-specific and sensitive interventions in poor and very poor households in Sylhet and Moulvibazar districts in the north-eastern region of Bangladesh. The aim of this article is to assess the association between the Suchana intervention and household food security status among poor and very poor households in north-eastern rural Bangladesh using the Suchana baseline and endline survey databases. The baseline survey was conducted between November 2016 and February 2017, while the endline survey was undertaken 3 years later, during the same months. The outcome variable in this analysis was household food security status, which was measured using the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance's Guideline. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the data; after controlling for the union as a cluster and relevant covariates, a multiple multinomial logistic regression model was used to estimate the independent effect of the Suchana intervention as an exposure. Overall, 14.0% of households were food secure at the baseline survey (intervention: 14.1%, control: 14.0%) and 22.0% were food secure (intervention: 26.6%, control: 20.2%) at the endline survey. For households in the intervention area in comparison to the control area, the odds of being moderately food insecure [aOR: 1.36 (1.05, 1.76), p < 0.05], mildly food insecure [aOR: 1.83 (1.33, 2.51), p < 0.001], or food secure [aOR: 2.21 (1.47, 3.33), p < 0.001] compared to being severely food insecure was significantly higher. Thus, we infer that the 3 years of Suchana intervention marginally increased household food security status among the socio-economically disadvantaged population in north-eastern rural Bangladesh. If concerns regarding gender equity, women's education, and income-generating activities are addressed, the population could experience even greater benefits in food security. In order to overcome these challenges, all stakeholders including programme implementers and policymakers should work together to implement the appropriate measures. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9513544/ /pubmed/36176515 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.950676 Text en Copyright © 2022 Haque, Choudhury, Ahmed, Farzana, Ali, Naz, Khan, Wahid, Siddiqua, Akter, Rahman, Faruque and Ahmed. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Public Health
Haque, Md Ahshanul
Choudhury, Nuzhat
Ahmed, S. M. Tanvir
Farzana, Fahmida Dil
Ali, Mohammad
Naz, Farina
Khan, Ashfaque
Wahid, Barbie Zaman
Siddiqua, Towfida Jahan
Akter, Rumana
Rahman, Sheikh Shahed
Faruque, A. S. G.
Ahmed, Tahmeed
Food security status of Suchana-participating households in north-eastern rural Bangladesh
title Food security status of Suchana-participating households in north-eastern rural Bangladesh
title_full Food security status of Suchana-participating households in north-eastern rural Bangladesh
title_fullStr Food security status of Suchana-participating households in north-eastern rural Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed Food security status of Suchana-participating households in north-eastern rural Bangladesh
title_short Food security status of Suchana-participating households in north-eastern rural Bangladesh
title_sort food security status of suchana-participating households in north-eastern rural bangladesh
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9513544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36176515
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.950676
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