Racialized Experiences Differentiate Food Security Among African American Adults.
Deena J Chisolm, Bethany A Bell, Owusua Yamoah and 1 others
PMID 34173373WHAT IT FOUND
African American adults who thought often about race and reported health effects from discrimination were less likely to be food secure and more likely to have very low food security.
Diet quality did not differ.
Key findings
01Class 3, the racially conscious and affected class, had a lower food-secure proportion and a higher very-low-food-security proportion than Class 1 and Class 2.
02Diet quality did not differ by racialized-experience class.
03Three racialized-experience classes were identified: few racialized experiences, racially conscious, and racially conscious plus affected by racialized actions.
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What it does not show
The sample was localized to two Ohio communities and limited to African American adults, so the classes may not apply to other groups. The study was cross-sectional, so it cannot show that racialized experiences caused food insecurity. Food security and diet quality were self-reported or derived from phone recalls, which can be affected by memory and reporting. The analysis excluded non-African American participants, so it does not describe how these patterns might differ across other racial groups.
Declared interests
The supplied metadata lists NIH extramural and non-U.S. government research support, but the article text does not include an author conflict-of-interest statement.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that thinking about race caused food insecurity or that addressing racism would improve food security. This was a cross-sectional survey of a localized sample, and it tested no intervention.