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摘要
本研究评估了沙特阿拉伯吉达低收入妇女的粮食安全状况,以及她们的应对策略、健康和福祉。对113名接受妇女福利协会粮食援助的妇女进行了横断面研究。数据是通过面对面的结构化访谈收集的。总体而言,50%的妇女处于粮食不安全状态。与有粮食保障的妇女相比,没有粮食保障的妇女更有可能利用许多应对策略。食物无保障妇女应对策略的平均得分显著高于食物有保障妇女(分别为21.0±5.35分和10.2±5.78分);P = 0.008, P = 0.260)。低收入妇女可以使用几种策略来应对粮食不安全,这可能会影响心理和整体健康。需要进一步研究粮食不安全对沙特阿拉伯低收入群体健康和福祉的影响。还需要定性数据,以便更好地了解沙特阿拉伯弱势群体中粮食不安全的原因和预防不良健康结果。
Food Security Status, Coping Strategies, and Health of Women's Welfare Society Beneficiaries in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: A Facility-Based Study.
This study assessed the food security status of low-income women in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in addition to their coping strategies, health, and well-being. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 113 women receiving food assistance from a women's welfare society. Data were collected using in-person structured interviews. Overall, 50% of the women were food-insecure. Compared with food-secure women, food-insecure women were more likely to utilize many coping strategies. The mean score of coping strategies was significantly greater among food-insecure women, than that of food-secure women (21.0 ± 5.35 and 10.2 ± 5.78, respectively; p < .001). Food-insecure women were also more likely to report poor mental and overall health compared to food-secure women (p = .008 and p < .001, respectively). However, there was no significant difference in life satisfaction between both food security groups (p = .260). Low-income women may use several strategies to cope with food insecurity, which may affect mental and overall health. Further research is needed on the effect of food insecurity on health and well-being of low-income groups in Saudi Arabia. Qualitative data are also needed to better understand the reasons of food insecurity and preventing poor health outcomes among disadvantaged populations in Saudi Arabia.
期刊介绍:
Ecology of Food and Nutrition is an international journal of food and nutrition in the broadest sense. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of food and nutrition -- ecological, biological, and cultural. Ecology of Food and Nutrition strives to become a forum for disseminating scholarly information on the holistic and cross-cultural dimensions of the study of food and nutrition. It emphasizes foods and food systems not only in terms of their utilization to satisfy human nutritional needs and health, but also to promote and contest social and cultural identity. The content scope is thus wide -- articles may focus on the relationship between food and nutrition, food taboos and preferences, ecology and political economy of food, the evolution of human nutrition, changes in food habits, food technology and marketing, food and identity, and food sustainability. Additionally, articles focusing on the application of theories and methods to address contemporary food and nutrition problems are encouraged. Questions of the relationship between food/nutrition and culture are as germane to the journal as analyses of the interactions among nutrition and environment, infection and human health.