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Table 4 Associations between nutritional status of land evictees and household food security indices

From: Realization of the right to adequate food and the nutritional status of land evictees: a case for mothers/caregivers and their children in rural Central Uganda

Nutritional status

Association with food security status

HFIAS Score

P-value

IDDS

P-value

CSI Score

P-value

Women (18–49 years) (n = 204)

 BMI

0.29

0.004

−0.02

0.003

0.06

0.140

Children (6–59 months) (n = 187)

 Wasting

−0.07

0.279

0.02

0.020

−0.08

0.286

 Underweight

−0.19

0.003

0.03

0.002

−0.04

0.140

 Stunting

−0.32

0.002

0.02

0.009

−0.11

0.004

  1. Values are Spearman’s correlation coefficients