Food insecurity in urban American Indian and Alaska Native populations during the COVID-19 pandemic

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Association of food insecurity with COVID-19 infection and vaccination status among urban American Indian and Alaska Native survey participants, January-May 2021

	COVID-19 infection			COVID-19 vaccination
	% (N^a)	Unadjusted PD (95% CI)	Adjusted^b PD (95% CI)	% (N^a)	Unadjusted PD (95% CI)	Adjusted^b PD (95% CI)
*Full cohort*	N^a = 704			N^a = 690
Food secure	14% (60)	Reference		54% (303)	Reference
Food insecure	18% (38)	4% (-3%, 12%)	4% (-3%, 11%)	43% (130)	-11% (-21%, -2%)	-2% (-10%, 6%)
*Persistent food security status*^c	N^a = 537			N^a = 529
Food secure	15% (57)	Reference		54% (271)	Reference
Food insecure	14% (17)	-1% (-9%, 8%)	-1% (-9%, 7%)	44% (72)	-10% (-22%, 2%)	-2% (-13%, 9%)

PD Prevalence difference: absolute effect showing the prevalence of COVID-19 infection or vaccination among food insecure individuals compared to food secure individuals, CI Confidence interval
^aUnweighted sample size, results weighted for sampling and nonresponse
^bAdjusted for health organization clinic, sex, age, education, and marital status
^cRestricted to the subset of respondents categorized as having persistent status (food insecure, food secure) before and during the pandemic

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