NCT04832243

List Experiment to Measure Food and Water Insecurity

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,553 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

List experiment to measure food and water insecurity

Detailed description

Food and water insecurity are complex, multi-domain constructs. Given their known association with important health and mental health outcomes, accurate assessment of food and water insecurity in resource-limited settings is paramount. The purpose of this study is to use a list experiment methodology to assess the extent to which there is bias in conventional survey-based means of direct elicitation of food and water insecurity. The list experiment provides an indirect means to measure a particular construct of interest. It is hypothesized that social desirability may cause upward bias in conventional survey-based means of direct elicitation of food and water insecurity.

Conditions

• Food Deprivation
• Water Deprivation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Survey questionnaire	Each version of the questionnaire includes a different number of true-false statements that study participants are asked to identify.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-02-19
• Primary completion: 2021-12-31
• Completion: 2021-12-31
• First posted: 2021-04-05
• Last updated: 2021-04-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Uganda