title: Food insecurity among refugee families in East London: results of a pilot assessment.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify child hunger and examine its association with family factors, receipt of benefits, housing conditions and social support among recently arrived refugee families with young children.
  
  
  METHODS
  Structured and semi-structured questionnaire administered to a service-based, purposive sample of caregivers.
  
  
  METHODS
  East London, United Kingdom.
  
  
  METHODS
  Thirty households with children <5 years old, resident in the UK for <2 years.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All households sampled were food-insecure, and 60% of index children were experiencing hunger as defined on the Radimer/Cornell scale. Child hunger was significantly associated with recent arrival, marginally significantly associated with receipt of fewer benefits and younger parenthood, and not associated with maternal education or self-efficacy score, household size or composition, or measures of social support.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A community-based, participatory approach for rapid assessment of the prevalence, extent and causes of child hunger among newly arrived asylum seekers recently arrived in Britain is feasible, and preliminary results suggest a programmatic need for a broader, population-based assessment of food insecurity in this rapidly growing population group.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. dsellen@emory.edu
authors.forename: Daniel W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Sellen
authors.forename: Alison E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Tedstone
authors.forename: Jacqueline
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Frize
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D015362:Child Nutrition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004032:Diet; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D005523:Food Supply; D006801:Humans; D006815:Hunger; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008131:London / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D009752:Nutritional Status; D010865:Pilot Projects; D015995:Prevalence; D012036:Refugees; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires