{"doi":"10.5304/jafscd.2023.123.015","title":"Food insecurity among households with children during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic","abstract":"Understanding impacts of the COVID-19 pan­demic among households with children is neces­sary to design appropriate public health responses that protect food and nutrition security. The objec­tive of this research was to understand predictors of food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic among households with at least one child (<18 years), including whether foods reported as out-of-stock were associated with the likelihood of food insecurity. An online survey using validated measures and open-ended questions was distrib­uted to a convenience sample in five states—Louisiana, Montana, North Carolina, Oregon, and West Virginia—during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic (April through September of 2020). Predictors of food insecurity (race/ethnicity, age, marital status, education, federal nutrition assistance program participation, number of adults and children in the household, rurality, and missing foods when shopping) among households with children during the COVID-19 pandemic were modeled using logistic regression (p < 0.05, a priori). To further illuminate household experiences during this time, two researchers independently coded open-ended survey question data using inductive and deductive approaches to construct themes. Households with children had increased odds of experiencing food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic if they had the following characteristics: Hispanic ethnicity; age between 25 and 44 years; additional adult household members; economic hardship; SNAP/WIC participation; being widowed, divorced, or separated; and report­ing foods not available when shopping. Partici­pants described mainly negative changes to dietary patterns and practices as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. They also described food security chal­lenges and ideas for improving food security. Con­sistent with other data collected and analyzed dur­ing the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study contributes findings that emphasize the need for enhanced public health responses and emer­gency preparedness measures that protect food and nutrition security. Because of the increased short- and long-term consequences including exposure to adverse circumstances, impaired learning, risks to mental health, and poor health outcomes, ensuring an adequate food supply is especially important for households with children.","journal":"Journal of Agriculture Food Systems and Community Development","year":2023,"id":383341,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":2,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9569,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2023-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":609897,"name":"Lindsey Haynes‐Maslow","orcid":"0000-0001-9571-1478","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":704930,"name":"Lauri Andress","orcid":"0000-0001-8326-9635","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":704928,"name":"Annie Hardison‐Moody","orcid":"0000-0001-5776-7964","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":705684,"name":"Michelle Grocke-Dewey","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1150152,"name":"Denise Holston","orcid":"0000-0002-2426-089X","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":704931,"name":"Mēgan Patton-López","orcid":"0000-0002-0423-7131","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1150481,"name":"Nila Pradhananga","orcid":null,"position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1150482,"name":"Todd Prewitt","orcid":null,"position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":704932,"name":"Justin D. 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