Objective We assessed the validity of a locally adapted Colombian Household Food
Security Scale (CHFSS) used as a part of the 2006 evaluation of the food supplement …

We tested the validity of ELCSA in a representative public opinion survey of 863 households
with children under 18 y old in the state of Guanajuato. ELCSA was applied to the …

Objective: To validate abbreviated methods that estimate food security level among poor
communities in Caracas, Venezuela. Design: Two independent cross-sectional studies were …

Background We tested the properties of the 18 Household Food Security Survey (HFSS)
items, and the validity of the resulting food security classifications, in an English-speaking …

ObjectiveTo determine the factor structure of the Latin American & Caribbean Household
Food Security Scale (ELCSA) and to study the influence of sociodemographic characteristics …

The objective of this study was to explore demographic and economic characteristics
associated with household food security of 2,784 low-income households with pre-school …

This paper describes the process of modifying and validating a hunger index developed in
the United States by Wehler et al (1992). It is part of a research whose main objective is to …

Abstract MUA±OZ-ASTUDILLO, María N; MARTINEZ, José W and QUINTERO, Alba R.
Validating Latin-American and Caribbean Latin-American food security scale on pregnant …

We examined the psychometric validity of the 16‐item ELCSA in Mexico and Uruguay and
assessed the comparability of the scale items across the two countries. ELCSA was recently …

Food security is a multi-dimensional concept that requires multiple indicators to measure it
correctly; however, single food security indicators are often used individually or …