Nutritional Security/insecurity In Urban And Rural Families Of Amazonas State: Validation Of Methodology And Of Information Collecting Instrument [segurança/insegurança Alimentar Em Famílias Urbanas E Rurais No Estado Do Amazonas: I. Validação De Metodologia E De Instrumento De Coleta De Informação]

The present study validates the methodology and the information collecting instrument for analysis of nutritional security/insecurity on the urban and rural family level, proposed by the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture). An intentional sample of domiciles was selected to represent different social strata, 194 families were enrolled in urban Manaus, of which 174 had children, in the following neighborhoods: Jesus me Deu, Nova Israel, Cidade Nova, Coroado and Conj. Petro. In the rural area between the municipalities of Iranduba and Manacapuru, 209 riparian families were interviewed, and of these 131 had children. The final validation of the questionnaire (global internal consistency) was made by comparing, the levels of nutritional security/insecurity, with the defined social strata and food consumption indicators. The results demonstrated that the groups of highest nutritional insecurity were the very poor. The instrument presented high validation and internal consistency.372247252Albert, P.L., Sanjur, D., The adaptation and validation of the food security scale in a community of Caracas, Venezuela (2000) Arch. Latinoam. Nutr, 50 (4), pp. 334-340Cohen, B., (2005) Community Food Security Assessment Toolkit. ERS E-FAN No. 02-013. 2002. p. 166, , http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/efan02013/). Acesso: 23/04/2005Frongillo, E.A., Validation of measures of food insecurity and hunger (1999) J Nutr, 129 (SUPPL. 2), pp. 506-509(2001) Projeto Fome Zero: Uma política de segurança alimentar para o Brasil, , Instituto Cidadania, São Paulo: Instituto da Cidadania. 118ppLeão, M., (2005) Segurança Alimentar e Risco de Sobrepeso e Obesidade em famílias de crianças menores de 6 anos, , Dissertação Mestrado. Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF. 121ppPanigassi, G., (2005) Inquérito populacional sobre a percepção da segurança alimentar intrafamiliar no município de Campinas, SP, , Tese de Doutorado, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo. 188ppPerez-Escamilla, R., Randolph, S., Hathie, I., Gaye, I., Adaptation and validation of the USDA food security scale in rural Senegal (2004) FASEB J, 18, pp. A106Perez-Escamilla, R., Segall-Corrêa, A.M., Maranha, L.K., Sampaio, M.F.A., Marin-León, L., Panigassi, G., An adapted version of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Insecurity Module is a valid tool for assessing household food insecurity in Campinas (2004) Brasil. J. Nutr, 134, pp. 1923-1928Radimer, K.L., Measurement of household food security in the USA and other industrialised countries (2002) Public Health Nutr, , 5(6A):859-864Segal-Corrêa, A.M., Escamilla, R.P., Maranha, L.K., Sampaio, M.F.A., Relatório Técnico. Versão preliminar Acompanhamento e avaliação da Segurança alimentar de famílias brasieleiras:Validação de Metodologia e de instrumento de coleta de informação (2004) Urbano/rural, , UNICAMP. Campinas. 33ppStuddert, L.J., Frongillo, E.A., Valois, P., Household food insecurity was prevalent in Java during Indonesia's economic crisis (2001) J Nutr, 131 (10), pp. 2685-2691(2003) Food security in the United States: History of the food security measurement, , http://www. ers.usda.gov/briefing/foodsecurity/history). Acesso: 22/08/2003, United Stater Department of Agriculture, projec