Table 1.
Food security questionnaire items and coding of response options as insecure or secure.
Table 2.
Sociodemographic characteristics of random sample of undergraduate students who participated in an online survey and comparison with university’s undergraduate student body.
Table 3.
Item response statistics for 10-item adult food security survey module among a random sample of undergraduate students who participated in an online survey (n = 217a).
Fig 1.
Prevalence rates of food insecurity among undergraduate college students by assessment protocol (n = 462).
Note. Assessment procedures and scoring protocols being compared are the: 1) Six-Item Short Form of the USDA Food Security Survey Module; 2) 10-item USDA Adult Food Security Survey Module; 3) Six-Item Short Form with two screening items used in the Current Population Survey; and 4) 10-item USDA Adult Module with two screening items used in the Current Population Survey.
Table 4.
Agreement of assessment protocols predicting food insecurity (FI) among undergraduate college students (n = 462).
Table 5.
Comparison of assessment protocols predicting food insecurity (FI) among undergraduate college students based on theoretical predictors in logistic regression models (n = 427).