@article{0fcfb07e45714bfcbc3c498bedf9b20b,
title = "Family chaos and lack of mealtime planning is associated with food insecurity in low income households",
keywords = "Family chaos, Family mealtimes, Food security, Low income families",
author = "Fiese, {Barbara H.} and Craig Gundersen and Brenda Koester and Blake Jones",
note = "Funding Information: Data for this study were drawn from survey responses by parents participating in the Food and Family Project during 2010–2011. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Food and Family Project was part of a program evaluation of a weekend feeding program administered through 16 elementary schools in east Central Illinois and was supported by a regional food bank. The purpose of the weekend feeding program was to alleviate childhood hunger over the weekend. In partnership with the local food bank, school personnel identified children who they believed were likely to go hungry over the weekend. As part of the evaluation design, approximately half of the children at each school received a backpack of food for the weekend. The children are all at-risk of food insecurity insofar as they were identified for potential participation in that program. Further evidence of the risk of food insecurity in this population is seen in the Free and Reduced Price Lunch (FRPL) rate of the schools which ranged from 19.8% to 87.4% with 11 of the schools having a FRPL rate of over 40%. The national average during 2010–2011 school year was 48.1. Nine of the 16 schools were above the national average. The statewide average for the study school year was 46.7%. Ten of the 16 schools were above the statewide average. ",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1016/j.ehb.2016.01.004",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "21",
pages = "147--155",
journal = "Economics and Human Biology",
issn = "1570-677X",
publisher = "Elsevier",
}