ArticlePublic health nutrition2019
Food insecurity in a pre-bariatric surgery sample: prevalence, demographics and food shopping behaviour.
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- The lived experience of food insecurity among adults with obesity: a quantitative and qualitative systematic review.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2024Pooled it
- Neighborhoods matter: contextual determinants of bariatric surgery utilization and weight loss in Washington, D.C.Surgical endoscopy · 2026Article
- Preoperative Weight Trends in Adolescents Undergoing Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2026Observational
- Food security and its impact on patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in patients seeking evaluation for metabolic and bariatric surgery.Surgical endoscopy · 2025Article
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objectiveTo identify the prevalence and demographic characteristics of food insecurity in a presurgical bariatric population. To date there has been no research on food insecurity in a presurgical bariatric population.
designParticipants completed the ten-item adult food security survey module created by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), with additional questions related to food shopping behaviours and perceived affordability of post-bariatric supplements. USDA scoring guidelines were used to classify participants as food secure, marginally food secure and food insecure.
settingAcademic medical centre bariatric surgery clinic in Central Pennsylvania, USA.
participantsAdult bariatric surgery candidates (n 174).
resultsThere was a prevalence of 17·8 % for food insecurity and 27·6 % for marginal food security. Food insecurity was associated with younger age, higher BMI, non-White race/ethnicity, having less than a college education, living in an urban area, receiving Medicaid/Medicare and participating in nutrition assistance programmes. Food-insecure participants endorsed food shopping behaviours that could interfere with postsurgical dietary adherence and perceived post-bariatric supplies as unaffordable or inaccessible.
conclusionsThese results highlight the importance of screening bariatric surgical patients for food insecurity. Further study of this important problem within the bariatric population should address effects of food insecurity and related shopping behaviours on postsurgical outcomes and inform the development of programmes to better assist these high-risk patients.
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