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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