THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF FOOD INSECURITY ON COMTECH GRADE12-HE

STUDENT’S ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

GROUP II-HE ECLAIR

BEJERANO, ELLA MAE P.

CANDIDO, JERICK M.

FERMIZA, JENNY N.

KADIL, SENAYDA A.

COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE (COMTECH)

S.Y. 2021-2022
 Chapter I

Introduction

Background of the study

Food insecurity is widely known in the slum of the Philippines, based on the statistic 95 children

suffer hunger in every day that leads to their death, twenty- seven out of 1,000 children don’t

make it to their fifth birthday. Roughly 30 million Filipinos, mostly children are reportedly

experiencing involuntary hunger due to lack of food to eat at least once in the past 3 months.

So how will it affect the student’s academic performance you might ask?

Research demonstrate that students who are ‘at risk for hunger’ are more likely to have attention

and behavioral issue and less likely to perform well in school. Some studies have shown that

feeding children breakfast alleviates hunger and improves memory and test performance.

Food insecurity not only affects physical growth and health of children but also intellectual

development, school attendance and academic performance.

Food-insecure children and teenager have been shown to miss school more frequently, and are

more likely to repeat a grade than food-secure children. Food insecurity has been shown to

reduce a child’s chances of graduating from high school. Growing up food-insecure has

consequences even beyond k-12 education.

Around 64% of the population nationwide which accounts for 54.9 million Filipinos are

chronically food insecure (IPC-chronic level 2 and above). Specially, this represents 39% mild,

17% moderate and 8% severe chronic food insecure population.

Statement of the problem

1. What is the percentage of grade-12 Comtech students experience food insecurity?

2. Do they have a lower average grade than the students who is food secure?

3. What are the possible factors that may contribute to Students food insecurity?

Significance of the study

The result of this study will benefit the following:

Students- this study will be able to obtain further knowledge about the topic and will provide

credible source of reference to the future Researches.

Teachers- upon knowing the result of this study, the teacher will be well aware about their

Students well-being, emotional health, academic performance, and personal behavior and they

will be able to address do it effectively.

Parents- through this study parents will be given an information that will set a realization on

what their children are experiencing due to food insecurity and how it affects their ability to

perform in class as an individual.

Future Researchers- this study will benefit the future researchers that will serves as a reference

and a guide for their research topic.

Scope and delimitation

The research was conducted at Computer Technologies Institute (COMTECH) Baliwasan

Chico Road during the year of 2021-2022.

This study yearn to identify the student who are food insecure.

Definition of terms

Food-insecurity – a disruption of food intake or eating patterns of lack of money and other

resources.

Malnutrition – a condition that develops when the body is deprived of vitamins, minerals and

other nutrients.

Emotional development – learning how to understand your own feelings recognizing why they

occur.

Starvation – suffering or death caused by hunger.

Food-secure – a measurement of availability of food and individuals ability to access it.

Food Adequacy – a sufficient intake or essential nutrients, needed to fulfill for nutritional

requirements.

Chronic stomach disease – a condition in which stomach lining is damage permanently,

Social interaction – is any relationship between two or more individual.

Poor concentration – is a decreased ability to focus on your thoughts and ideas.

Unstable job – is a lack of stability and steadiness at work.

Chapter II

Review of Related Literature

Janice Ke, MSc and Elizabeth Lee Ford-Jones, MD (2015)

Food insecurity and hunger are significant problems in Canada, with millions of Canadians

Experiencing some level of food insecurity. The purpose of the present article is to review what

Is currently known about the effects of food insecurity and hunger on children. Longitudinal

Studies in Canada indicate that hunger is related to poor health outcomes, including a higher risk

Of depression and suicidal ideation in adolescents, and chronic conditions, particularly asthma.

In

Addition, nutrients deficiencies, such as iron deficiency, are known to impair learning and cause

Decreased productivity in school-age children, and maternal depressive disorders. School-based

Nutrition programs and innovation, such as subsidized food (apples, cheese, soy nuts, carrots and

Broccoli), are an essential immediate need, but long-term solution lie in adequate incomes for

Families.

Diana F. Jyoti, Edward A, Frongillo, Sonya J, Jones (2005)

Food insecurity has been associated with diverse developmental consequences for U.S. children

Primarily from cross-sectional studies. We used longitudinal data to investigate how food

Insecurity over time related to changes in reading and mathematics test performance, weight and

BMI, and social skills in children. Data were from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-

Kindergarten Cohort, a prospective sample of ~21,000 nationally representative children entering

Kindergarten in 1998 and followed through 3rd grade. Food insecurity was measured by parent

Interview using a modification of the USDA module in which households were classified as food

Insecure if they reported_>1 affirmative response in the past year. Households were grouped into

4 categories based on the temporal occurrence of food insecurity in kindergarten and 3rd grade.

Children’s academic performance, height, and weight were assessed directly. Children’s so

social

Skills were reported by teachers, Analyses examined the effects of modified food insecurity on

Changes in child outcomes using lagged, dynamic, and difference (i.e., fixed-effects) models and

Controlling for child and household contextual variables. In lagged models, food insecurity was

Predictive of poor developmental trajectories in children before controlling for other variables.

Food insecurity thus serves as an important marker for identifying children who fare worse in

terms of subsequent development. In all models with controls, food insecurity was associated

with

outcomes, and associations differed by gender. This study provides the strongest empirical
evidence to date that food insecurity is linked to specific developmental consequences for

children, and that these consequences may be both nutritional and non-nutritional.

According to Craig Gunderson and James P. Ziliak almost fifty million people are food insecure

in the United States, which makes food insecurity one of the nation’s leading health and

nutrition’s issues. We examine recent research evidence of the health consequences of food

insecurity for children, nonsenior adults, and seniors in the United States. For context, we first

provide an over view of how food insecurity is measure in the country, followed by a

presentation of recent trend in the prevalence of food insecurity. Then we present a survey of

selected recent research that examined the association between food insecurity and health

outcomes. We show that the literature has consistently found food insecurity to be negatively

associated with health. For example, after confounding risk factors were controlled for, studies

found that food insecure children are at least twice as likely to report being in fair or poor health

and at least 1.4 times more likely to have asthma, compared to food secure children; and Food

Insecure seniors have limitation in activities of daily living comparable to those of food secure

seniors fourteen years older. The supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP)

substantially reduces the prevalence of food insecurity and thus is critical to reducing negative

health outcomes.