Variable
|
HFI status
|
p-valuea
|
---|
Food-secure (n = 137)
|
Food-insecure (n = 178)
|
---|
Total FNLIT (score)
|
74.09 ± 11.57b
|
68.65 ± 12.83
|
< 0.001*
|
FNLIT cognitive domain (score)
|
Understanding food and nutrition information
|
76.95 ± 12.39
|
73.25 ± 13.91
|
0.01*
|
Nutritional health knowledge
|
88.5 ± 13.49
|
82.12 ± 20.74
|
0.001*
|
FNLIT skill domain (score)
|
Functional FNLIT
|
72.03 ± 13.9
|
69.41 ± 16.13
|
0.12
|
Interactive FNLIT
|
57.05 ± 26.9
|
57.11 ± 24.86
|
0.98
|
Food choice literacy
|
75.86 ± 69.94
|
69.94 ± 21.97
|
0.009*
|
Critical FNLIT
|
67.88 ± 22.16
|
65.87 ± 23.75
|
0.43
|
Food label literacy
|
72.08 ± 29.7
|
49.01 ± 35.19
|
< 0.001*
|
- HFI household food insecurity, FNLIT food and nutrition literacy
- *Significant at the level of p < 0.05
- a p-values obtained from Independent-samples t test
- b Data are shown as Mean ± standard deviation