Components of household food insecurity among households of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in three districts of South India, 2015–2018 (n=765)
| Occurrence questions | Occurrence* | |||
| No | Rarely | Sometimes | Often | |
| I.Worry or anxiety about food | ||||
| 1.Worry that the household would not have enough food | 648 (84.7) | 52 (6.8) | 62 (8.1) | 3 (0.4) |
| II. Insufficient Quality of Food | ||||
| 2.Any household member not able to eat the kinds of foods preferred because of lack of resources | 636 (83.1) | 67 (8.8) | 60 (7.8) | 2 (0.3) |
| 3.Eating a limited variety of foods due to a lack of resources | 680 (88.9) | 40 (5.2) | 45 (5.9) | 0 (0.0) |
| 4.Any household member having to eat some foods that they really did not want to eat because of lack of resources to obtain other types of food | 611 (79.9) | 53 (6.9) | 91 (11.9) | 10 (1.3) |
| III. Insufficient Quantity of Food | ||||
| 5.Any household member having to eat a smaller meal than needed because there was not enough food | 593 (77.5) | 73 (9.5) | 97 (12.7) | 2 (0.3) |
| 6.Eating fewer meals in a day because there was not enough food | 601 (78.6) | 89 (11.6) | 73 (9.5) | 2 (0.3) |
| 7.There is no food of any kind to eat in your household because of a lack of resources to get food | 625 (81.7) | 73 (9.5) | 60 (7.8) | 7 (0.9) |
| 8.Any household member going to sleep hungry at night because there was not enough food | 643 (84.1) | 70 (9.2) | 51 (6.7) | 1 (0.1) |
| 9.Any household member going a whole day and night without eating anything because there was not enough food | 631 (82.5) | 73 (9.5) | 57 (7.5) | 4 (0.5) |
*0=No, 1=Rarely (1–2 times in the past 4 weeks), 2=Sometimes (3–10 times in the past 4 weeks), 3=Often (more than 10 times in the past 4 weeks).