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Community and Public Health Nutrition (Poster Session)

(P20-024-24) Assessment of Food Insecurity and Associated Factor Among Elderly Household in Sesa Kebele, Dilla Town, South Ethiopia 2023: Community Based Cross Sectional Study

Monday, July 1, 2024
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM CT
Location: Poster Board 518
Objectives: The aim of the study is to assess prevalence of food insecurity and its associated factor among elderly's household in Sesa kebele, Dilla town, south Ethiopia.

Methods: Community based cross sectional study was conducted in Sesa Kebele, Dilla town, South Ethiopia. Randomly selected household head`s from systematically selected elderly`s house hold was asked structured questions. Data were coded, verified, and entered into Epi-Data version 3.1 and exported to the SPSS version 26.0 for analysis. All variables with p value of < 0.25 during bivariate ordinal logistic regression analysis were entered to a multivariable analysis then variable independently associated with the outcome variable at p value less than 0.05 in multivariable analysis were considered as significant variable.

Results: In this particular study, the prevalence of house hold food insecurity was 91.4 % (95% CI, (-2.747-1.985%). Mildly (8%), moderately (19.2%) and severely (64.2%).In multivariable logistic regression analysis, employee household head [(AOR = 3.24, 95% CI: (1.64, 6.39)], Household monthly income being ≤ 2500 ETB [(AOR = 16.02, 95% CI: (4.44, 57.7)], a households consumed 1-4 different food groups [(AOR = 6.10, 95% CI: (3.12,11.94)] and participants who had private house [(AOR = 0.30, 95% CI: (0.15, 0.60)] were significantly associated with household food insecurity.

Conclusions: In general, this study demonstrated the enormous inability of elderly’s household to secure access to food due to low socio-economic and dietary diversity. Hence, the results of this study would help to design and implement more effective policies and programs in Dilla town by taking into consideration those variables found to have a significant effect on food insecurity status of elderly’s households.

Funding Sources: Dilla university community based education office funded the research.