Assessment of Prevalence of Malnutrition and Its Associated Factors among AIDS Patients from Asella, Oromia, Ethiopia

Table 6

Dose response of Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) of study participants in Asella Town, Southeast Ethiopia.

HFIAS questions	Frequency ()	Rarely (%)	Sometimes (%)	Often (%)
Worry about food	231	157 (70)	57 (24.6)	17 (7.4)
Unable to eat preferred foods	295	181 (61.4)	104 (35.2)	10 (3.4)
Eat a limited variety of foods	303	149 (49.2)	133 (43.9)	21 (6.9)
Eat foods that you really did not want to eat	195	112 (57.5)	58 (29.7)	25 (12.8)
Eat a smaller meal	152	103 (67.7)	44 (30)	5 (3.3)
Eat fewer meals in a day	120	81 (67.5)	38 (31.6)	1 (0.9)
No food to eat of any kind in the household	28	17 (60.7)	11 (39.3)	0
Go to sleep at night hungry	16	14 (87.5)	2 (12.5)	0
Go a whole day and night without eating anything	2	2 (100)	0	0