Association of Household Food Insecurity with the Mental and Physical Health of Low-Income Urban Ecuadorian Women with Children

Table 1

Association of household food insecurity with self-rated health status ().

Self-rated health status	Food secure (); number (%)	Low food security (); number (%)	Very low food security (); number (%)	Low food security		⁢Very low food security
				Unadjusted PR; (95% CI)	Adjusted PR; (95% CI)	Unadjusted PR (95% CI)	Adjusted PR; (95% CI)
Current health: fair-to-poor	39 (25.7)	112 (34.5)	210 (66.2)	1.34 (0.99, 1.83)	1.22 (0.90, 1.65)	2.58 (1.95, 3.42)	2.09 (1.56, 2.80)
Health compared to 12 mos. ago: worse-to-much worse	27 (17.8)	53 (16.3)	100 (31.5)	0.92 (0.60, 1.40)	1.00 (0.67, 1.53)	1.78 (1.22, 2.59)	1.92 (1.27, 2.86)

PR: prevalence ratio; 95% CI: 95% confidence interval.
Analyses adjusted for participant age, education, per capita monthly income, long-term neighborhood residence (≥50% of lifetime), BMI, residence neighborhood, and data collection year.
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