The Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFAIS) can be used as a measure of food insecurity in a household.
Time period: past 4 weeks
Responses based on lack of resources or not enough food.
Questions:
(1) worry about not having enough food
(2) unable to eat preferred foods
(3) had to eat a limited variety of food
(4) had to eat food that you did not want to eat
(5) had to eat less than you felt that you needed
(6) had to eat fewer meals in a day
(7) had no food to eat of any kind in your household
(8) go to sleep at night hungry
(9) go a whole day and night without eating anything
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Responses
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Points
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no
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0
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rarely
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1
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sometimes
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2
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often
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3
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Food Security Status
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Responses
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secure
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all 0; 1 in Q1
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mild insecurity
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>= 2 for Q1; >=1 for Q2; 1 for Q3 or Q4
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moderate insecurity
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>= 2 for Q3 or Q4; 1 or 2 for Q5 or Q6
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severe food insecurity
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3 to Q5 and Q6; 1 or higher in Q7, Q8 or Q9
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