Is the adapted Radimer/Cornell questionnaire valid to measure food insecurity of urban households in Tehran, Iran?

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 855-861

  Shoae, Nahid Zerafati ^a   Omidvar, Nasrin ^a   Ghazi Tabatabaie, Mahmood ^b   Rad, Anahita Houshiar ^a   Fallah, Hajieh ^c   Mehrabi, Yadollah ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c Statistical Research and Training Center Tehran   (Iran)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Food insecurity; Iran; Radimer Cornell questionnaire; Validation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; IRAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIMER CORNELL QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIET; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; HUNGER; INFANT; IRAN; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 34447134787     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980007441465     Document Type: Article

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