score_hfias: score_hfias: Scored data from the Household Food Insecurity...

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score_hfias: Scored data from the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale

Description

This function scores the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale and provides an overall HFIAS Score and Food Insecurity Status

Usage

score_hfias(hfias_data, parID)

Arguments

hfias_data	a data.frame all items for the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale following the naming conventions described above
parID	(optional) name of participant ID column in intake_data. If included the output dataset will be matched by parID, if not included the output dataset will be in the order of intake_data but will have no participant identifier.

Details

To use this function, the data must be prepared according to the following criteria: 1) The data must include all individual questionnaire items 2) The columns/variables must match the following naming convention: 'hfias#' where # is question number (1-9 and 1a-9a). 3) Questions must have the numeric values for the choices. The options include: 3a) Yes - 1, No - 0, I don't know or Don't want to answer - 99 3b) Rarely - 1, Sometimes - 2, Often - 3, I don't know or Don't want to answer - 99

Note, as long as variable names match those listed, the dataset can include other variables

Value

A dataset with scores for the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale

References

Coates J, Swindale A, Bilinsky P. Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) for measurement of food access: indicator guide: version 3. Published online 2007.

See Also

Raw data from Qualtrics was processed using the following script: util_fbs_parent_v4dat

Examples

# scoring for the hfias with IDs
hfias_score_data <- score_hfias(hfias_data, parID = 'ID')


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