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Food Insecurity in Predicting Diet Quality of Children from Low-income
Family in Kedah
Apeera a/p Prak Chang
Supervisor: Dr. Asma’ Binti Ali
Bachelor of Food Science (Food Service and Nutrition)
School of Food Science and Technology
Food insecurity is related to having low food supply. However, less study has been done
in assessing the relationship between food insecurity and diet quality. Therefore, this
study aims is to determine food insecurity level and diet quality of children from lowincome
family in Kedah. This cross-sectional study will be done among 103 children from
one selected mukim in Pendang. Questionnaire of Radimer / Cornell Hunger will be used
to determine food insecurity level of the children. Besides, dietary of the children will be
assess by using 2 days of 24- hour Dietary Recall. The dietary intake will be used to
determine their diet quality through Healthy Eating Index. High score of HEI indicates
that the respondents have good diet quality. It is expected that food insecurity
households lead to poor diet quality among the children. So, decrease of household food
insecurity level will improve the diet quality of the children.
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