Predictors of college-student food security and fruit and vegetable intake differ by housing type.

Auteur(s) :
Peterson KE., Mirabitur E., Rathz C., Matlen S., Kasper N.
Date :
Oct, 2016
Source(s) :
Journal of American college health : J of ACH. #64:7 p555-64
Adresse :
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan , USA. [email protected]

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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.

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