ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Clin. Diabetes Healthc.
Sec. Diabetes Health Services and Health Economics
Volume 6 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fcdhc.2025.1493312
This article is part of the Research TopicTransforming Food Systems: Addressing Malnutrition and Inequality in Low- and Middle-Income CountriesView all 24 articles
ASSESSMENT OF FOOD INSECURITY AND ITS ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG ADULT DIABETIC PATIENTS IN GAMBELLA TOWN PUBLIC HOSPITALS, SOUTH WESTERN ETHIOPIA, 2023
Provisionally accepted
Zeleke Girma Abate1*
Mehari Teka2Direslgne Misker3
Yosef Haile3
Yilma Chisha4
Mintesinot Melka Gujo4Endashaw Shibru Asegahegn1
Mamud Wakeyo5Lidetu Timiketu6
Temesgen Mohammed Toma4- 1South Ethiopia Region Health Bureau, Jinka, Ethiopia
- 2Gambella Teachers Education and Health Science College, Gambella, Ethiopia
- 3Arba Minch University, Department of Public Health, Arba Minch, Ethiopia
- 4South Ethiopia Region Health Bureau Public Health Institute, Jinka, Ethiopia
- 5Wolayita Sodo University, Department of Public Health, Sodo, Ethiopia
- 6Arbaminch General Hospital, Monitoring & Evaluation, Arbaminch, Ethiopia
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Introduction: Food insecurity is a multidimensional issue that has been related with poor overall health, obesity and chronic diseases and not only related with increased prevalence of diabetes but also with increasing health care expenses. There is paucity of researches conducted to assess food insecurity and its associated factors among adult diabetic clients in Ethiopia. Hence this study was aimed to assess food insecurity and its associated factors among adult diabetic patients in Gambella town public hospitals.A facility based cross sectional study was conducted among adult diabetic clients in Gambella town public hospital from May 1 to June 30, 2023. A systematic sampling technique was used to select a sample of 412 patients. Data were collected by trained data collectors using structured questionnaires. Data were checked for its completeness and consistence then entered into Epidata 4.6 and transported to SPSS version 26 for analysis. Bivariate analysis was done to make variables candidate for multivariate analysis at p-value <0.25. In multivariate analysis AOR with 95% CI were used to declare factors associated with food insecurity at pvalue <0.05.The prevalence of food insecurity was found to be 59.5% (95% CI: 54.6%-64.3%).In multivariate analysis the variables age 18 to 24 years (AOR=0.093,95% CI:0.02-0.30), able to read and write (AOR=4.31, CI:1.246-11.250), employed (AOR=0.20; 95% CI: 0.063-0.63),
Keywords: Food insecurity, Diabetic patients, Cross-sectional study design, Gambella town, Ethiopia
Received: 12 Jan 2025; Accepted: 09 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Abate, Teka, Misker, Haile, Chisha, Gujo, Asegahegn, Wakeyo, Timiketu and Toma. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Zeleke Girma Abate, South Ethiopia Region Health Bureau, Jinka, Ethiopia
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