Validity of a 2-item screening tool to identify families at risk for food insecurity in Brazil

• Main Authors: Ana Poblacion (Author), Ana Maria Segall-Corrêa (Author), John Cook (Author), Jose Augusto de Aguiar Carrazedo Taddei (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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This manuscript aimed to develop a brief 2-item screening tool to identify Brazilian households that include families with children at risk for food insecurity. Psychometric analyses including sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value, accuracy, and ROC curves were used to tes...