Identifying community needs of the Hispanic faith community to develop a research agenda.
Keneshia Bryant, George Pro, Martha Rojo and 5 others
PMID 34547116WHAT IT FOUND
Among 100 Hispanic faith community members in Arkansas, hunger and nutrition scored highest at 3.21 of 4.
Low income, worry about food cost, and inability to take time off work were linked to higher concern.
Key findings
01Hunger and nutrition was the highest concern, with a mean score of 3.21 on a 0 to 4 scale.
02Participants with household income under $25,000 were more likely to have a higher hunger and nutrition concern score (B = 0.78; p < .001).
03Concern about money to buy nutritious or healthy food (B = 0.66; p < .001) and inability to take time off work (B = 0.49; p < .001) were associated with higher hunger and nutrition concern.
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What it does not show
Only 100 participants were recruited purposively from three Central Arkansas counties, so the results may not generalise to other Hispanic communities. The survey had no open-ended questions, so participants could not elaborate on their concerns. It was a cross-sectional needs assessment, not a test of an intervention, so it cannot show that any action changed health.
Declared interests
The supplied metadata lists NIH extramural research support; no author conflicts or funding declaration are given in the article text.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that nutrition education or faith-based programmes improve health. The study only measured concerns in 100 purposively sampled Hispanic faith community members in three Central Arkansas counties.