Food insecurity among adult females with a history of breast cancer compared to adult females without cancer in the USA.

Autor: Zaborski NL; Division of Health Behavior and Health Promotion, College of Public Health, and the Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA., Andridge RR; Division of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA., Paskett ED; Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, and the Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA., Katz ML; Division of Health Behavior and Health Promotion, College of Public Health, and the Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA. mira.katz@osumc.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice [J Cancer Surviv] 2023 Nov 06. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Nov 06.
DOI: 10.1007/s11764-023-01481-3
Abstrakt: Purpose: To determine the prevalence of food insecurity (FI) among females with a history of breast cancer compared to females without cancer in the USA and the sociodemographic characteristics that may explain their FI.
Methods: Using the 2019 National Health Interview (NHIS) survey that included the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) 10-item Household Food Security Survey Module, participants with high/moderate food security were considered food secure and low/very low food security were considered food insecure. Analyses accounted for complex survey design and included descriptive statistics, bivariate analyses, and multivariate regression analyses.
Results: Eligible females (40+ years old) included 557 with a history of breast cancer and 9678 without a cancer history. FI was experienced by an estimated 4.4% of females with breast cancer, compared to 9.3% of females without cancer. Controlling for age, race/ethnicity, education level, general health status, and body mass index, the prevalence ratio between the two study groups was 0.50 (95% CI 0.33-0.78).
Conclusions: In this national sample, the prevalence of FI among females with a history breast cancer was lower than females without a history of cancer.
Implications for Cancer Survivors: FI is low among breast cancer survivors, and routine FI screening among breast cancer survivors may not be warranted for all patients. Healthcare providers, however, should be aware of FI as a social determinant of health and consider it when there are known financial issues among cancer survivors.
(© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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