Journal article
Food insecurity during COVID-19 in a Canadian academic pediatric hospital: a cross-sectional survey
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Hospital-based food insecurity is defined as the inability of caregivers to obtain adequate food during their child's hospital admission. We aimed to measure the prevalence of household and hospital-based food insecurity, and to explore the associations with caregiver distress in an academic pediatric hospital setting.
METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional survey of caregivers of children admitted to the general pediatric ward of …
Authors
van den Heuvel M; Fuller A; Zaffar N; Li X; Beck CE; Birken CS
Journal
CMAJ Open, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. e82–e89
Publisher
Joule
Publication Date
1 2022
DOI
10.9778/cmajo.20210223
ISSN
2291-0026