Dr. David Holben, whom you met in the Everybody Has a Story piece, studies food availability in poor communities. For example, he recently published a study on the use of food pantries in Ohio. Using what you now know about how nutritional scientists conduct their research using scientific method and publish it in peer-reviewed journals, can you locate this article on the PubMed database and
then determine whether Dr. Holben’s study used an epidemiological or intervention study design?
Do you agree with Dr. Holben’s conclusions?
In David Holben’s study, a convenient sample of households of children (N=710) were surveyed using an eighteen-question U.S. Household Food Security survey module for measuring hunger and food insecurity. This type of research method, using a survey, is an epidemiological study design.
Dr. David Hoblen concluded that hunger was related to a variety of household characteristics and associated with several factors, including participation in food banks, dependence on family members and friends outside of the household for food, lacking reliable transportation, and not having a garden.
Yes, I would agree with Dr. Holben’s conclusions.
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