Household Food Insecurity and Psychosocial Dysfunction in Ecuadorian Elementary Schoolchildren

Table 2

Association of HFI with overall PSC and internalizing, externalizing, and attention subscale scores.

	All (n=279)	Food secure (n=61)		Food insecure (n=218)
	Mean ± S.D.	Mean ± S.D.	Adjusted mean	Mean ± S.D.	Adjusted mean	GLM; unadjusted model; p	GLM adjusted model; p
Overall PSC score	21.9 ± 9.0	18.4 ± 7.2	18.6	22.9 ± 9.3	22.8	0.001	0.001
Subscale Scores
Internalizing	2.3 ± 2.0	1.5 ± 1.5	1.6	2.5 ± 2.0	2.4	0.001	0.001
Externalizing	3.5 ± 2.9	2.5 ± 2.6	2.6	3.8 ± 2.9	3.8	0.002	0.03
Attention	6.5 ± 2.1	6.2 ± 1.9	6.1	6.6 ± 2.1	6.6	0.15	0.72

Analyses adjusted for child gender (female), child age (years), ethnicity, child anemia, having a full-time stay-at-home mother, maternal SF-36 Mental Composite Summary (MCS) score, number of minor children living in home, and household monthly per capita income.