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

Table 2

Association of household food security status with low mental health inventory-5 (MHI-5) score.

	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)
Low MHI-5 score (≤3)	29 (19.2)	88 (27.6)	136 (43.0)	1.44 (1.00, 2.08)	1.40 (0.96, 2.03)	2.24 (1.58, 3.18)	2.16 (1.50, 3.11)

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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