ERIC Number: EJ1111970
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
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Predictors of College-Student Food Security and Fruit and Vegetable Intake Differ by Housing Type
Mirabitur, Erica; Peterson, Karen E.; Rathz, Colleen; Matlen, Stacey; Kasper, Nicole
Journal of American College Health, v64 n7 p555-564 2016
Objective: We assessed whether college-student characteristics associate with food security and fruit and vegetable (FV) intake and whether these associations differ in students in housing with and without food provision. Participants: 514 randomly-sampled students from a large, Midwestern, public university in 2012 and 2013 Methods: Ordered logistic regression tested how student characteristics associate with food security. Linear regression tested how student characteristics associate with FV intake. Analyses were stratified by housing type--that is, housing with food provision (dormitory, fraternity/sorority house, cooperative) vs. housing without food provision. Results: Only among those living in housing without food provision, males (p = 0.04), students without car access (p = 0.005), and those with marginal (p = 0.001) or low (p = 0.001) food security demonstrated lower FV intake. Conclusions: Housing with food provision may buffer the effects of student characteristics on food.
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Food, Eating Habits, College Housing, Dormitories, Sororities, Fraternities, Student Characteristics, Security (Psychology), Regression (Statistics), Gender Differences, Motor Vehicles, Correlation, College Students, State Universities, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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