TY - JOUR
T1 - Food Insecurity Among U.K. Veterans
AU - Stretesky, Paul
AU - Defeyter, Margaret Anne
N1 - Funding information: The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. However, we would like to thank the Departments of Social Sciences and Health and Life Sciences at Northumbria University for supplying the funding to pay for the YouGov sample.
PY - 2024/7/1
Y1 - 2024/7/1
N2 - This research compares food insecurity for U.K. veterans and nonveterans using the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) 10-item Adult Food Security Survey Module (AFSSM) for a sample of 1,492 participants. We find 1 in 10 veterans are living in a food-insecure household but that veteran status is not related to food insecurity. In addition, income and housing benefits are correlated with food insecurity for veterans and for nonveterans, but disability benefits are correlated with food insecurity among veterans only. Specifically, veterans with disability benefits averaged 1.12 (95% confidence interval, [0.42, 1.82]) more points (indicating more food insecurity) on the AFFSM than veterans without those benefits. These findings raise concerns that low-income disabled veterans with housing needs are a unique population at risk of living in food insecurity. Given the absence of research on food insecurity among U.K. veterans, it is necessity to study this population in greater detail and implement screening protocols where possible.
AB - This research compares food insecurity for U.K. veterans and nonveterans using the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) 10-item Adult Food Security Survey Module (AFSSM) for a sample of 1,492 participants. We find 1 in 10 veterans are living in a food-insecure household but that veteran status is not related to food insecurity. In addition, income and housing benefits are correlated with food insecurity for veterans and for nonveterans, but disability benefits are correlated with food insecurity among veterans only. Specifically, veterans with disability benefits averaged 1.12 (95% confidence interval, [0.42, 1.82]) more points (indicating more food insecurity) on the AFFSM than veterans without those benefits. These findings raise concerns that low-income disabled veterans with housing needs are a unique population at risk of living in food insecurity. Given the absence of research on food insecurity among U.K. veterans, it is necessity to study this population in greater detail and implement screening protocols where possible.
KW - Armed Forces Covenant
KW - Veterans’ Strategy Action Plan
KW - food security
KW - hunger
KW - veteran aid
KW - veteran transition
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85148513167&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0095327X221151078
DO - 10.1177/0095327X221151078
M3 - Article
SN - 0095-327X
VL - 50
SP - 656
EP - 682
JO - Armed Forces and Society
JF - Armed Forces and Society
IS - 3
M1 - 0095327X2211510
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