My previous experience of insecurity and self-doubt became displaced by a powerful self-confidence and often-surprising clarity.
Many patients in low and middle income countries suffer from common mental disorders because of the stress caused by poverty [ 3, 15, 37] and associated factors such as the experience of insecurity and hopelessness, rapid social change and the risks of violence and physical ill-health may explain the greater vulnerability of the poor to common mental disorders [ 34].
Phase I was mainly qualitative and designed to identify locally relevant experiences of water insecurity, and Phase II used a quantitative survey to test the association between women's reported water insecurity and the Falk Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-F), a measure of psychosocial distress.
She knew little about the subject, apart from her experiences of financial insecurity growing up.
While more men have been drawn into casual work, a new report, Women and Casualisation, Women's Experiences of Job Insecurity, published on Monday at the start of the TUC's Decent Jobs week, points out how the impact on women is greater.
These findings contest global constructions of food banks as "emergency" food providers and support growing evidence that food banks are an insufficient response to chronic poverty, lack of affordable housing and insufficient social assistance rates underlying experiences of food insecurity.
The experiences of livelihood insecurity for these individuals may, in part, explain why they are not or did not remain in care, but such populations were rarely included.
Future work should focus on expanding our understanding of seasonal variation in the frequency and duration of children's experiences of food insecurity.
A total of 1911 adolescents aged 13-17 years were interviewed on their personal experiences of food insecurity both at baseline and at year two.
We recently explored experiences of food insecurity in a population survey in Trinidad and Tobago using the short form of the household food security scale [ 7].
There has been a call for research to assess the relationship between food security and children's diet [ 34], yet little research has focused on child's perceptions or experiences of food insecurity and their association with dietary intake [ 35].
