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Table 3 Food Insecurity among n = 422 Women’s Development Army leaders and members, rural Amhara, 2015

From: Volunteers in Ethiopia’s women’s development army are more deprived and distressed than their neighbors: cross-sectional survey data from rural Ethiopia

HFIAS items

1–30 Leaders (n = 73)

1–5 Leaders (n = 142)

1–5 Members (n = 207)

P-values

1: Worried about having enough food, % yes

35.6

35.2

31.4

0.661

2: Not able to get preferred foods, % yes

38.4

32.4

27.1

0.124

3: Ate just a few kinds of food, % yes

47.9

42.3

42

0.361

4: Ate unwanted/undesirable food, % yes

12.3

9.2

7.7

0.275

5: Reduced amount of food eaten, % yes

27.4

22.5

13.5

0.043

6: Ate fewer meals/times in a day, % yes

23.3

14.1

12.1

0.023

7: No food at all in the house, % yes

5.5

2.1

1.9

0.104a

8: Went to sleep hungry/without eating, % yes

8.2

4.2

4.8

0.242a

9: Went a whole day without eating, % yes

5.5

2.1

2.4

0.136a

Food Insecurity score, mean (range)

3.0 (0–22)

2.6 (0–19)

2.2 (0–20)

0.149

  1. aFisher’s exact test