Items | 18-item US HFSSM | 6-item short form US HFSSM | 9-item HFIAS | 8-item FIES |
---|---|---|---|---|
Recall period | 12 months | 12 months | 30 days | 12 months |
Worried food would run out/not have enough food | ✓ | × | ✓ | ✓ |
Food bought just didn’t last/household ran out of food | ✓ | ✓ | × | ✓ |
Couldn’t afford to eat balanced meals/healthy/nutritious food | ✓ | ✓ | × | × |
Cut the size or skip meals | ✓ | ✓ | × | × |
Did you ever eat less than you felt you should | ✓ | ✓ | × | × |
Hungry but didn’t eat | ✓ | ✓ | × | × |
Lose weight because there wasn’t enough money for food | ✓ | × | × | × |
Not eat for a whole day because there wasn’t enough money for food? | ✓ | × | × | × |
Relied on only a few kinds of low-cost food to feed child/the children | ✓ | × | × | × |
Couldn’t feed child/the children a balanced meal | ✓ | × | × | × |
Child/children not eating enough | ✓ | × | × | × |
Cut size of child’s meals | ✓ | × | × | × |
Child/children ever skip meals | ✓ | × | × | × |
Child/children ever hungry | ✓ | × | × | × |
Child/any children not eat for a whole day | ✓ | × | × | × |
Not able to eat preferred foods | × | × | ✓ | × |
Eat limited variety of foods/few kinds of foods | × | × | ✓ | ✓ |
Eat some foods you really did not want to eat | × | × | ✓ | × |
Eat a smaller [meal] than you felt you needed | × | × | ✓ | × |
Eat [fewer meals in a day]/ate less | × | × | ✓ | ✓ |
No food to eat of any kind in your household because of lack of resources to get food? | × | × | ✓ | × |
Sleep at night hungry | × | × | ✓ | × |
Whole day and night without eating anything/went without eating for a whole day | × | × | ✓ | ✓ |
Skip a meal | × | × | × | ✓ |
Hungry but did not eat | × | × | × | ✓ |
Any of the children younger than 5 years old: did not eat healthy and nutritious foods | × | × | × | ✓ |
Any children younger than 5 years old was not given enough food | × | × | × | ✓ |