Erica Mirabitur1, Karen E Peterson2,3, Colleen Rathz1, Stacey Matlen4, Nicole Kasper1,2,5,6. 1. a College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan , USA. 2. b Department of Nutritional Sciences , University of Michigan School of Public Health , Ann Arbor , Michigan , USA. 3. c Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan , USA. 4. d Department of Health Behavior and Health Education , University of Michigan School of Public Health , Ann Arbor , Michigan , USA. 5. e Section of Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics , University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus , Aurora , Colorado , USA. 6. f Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver , Aurora , Colorado , USA.
Abstract
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.
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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Keywords:
car access, college students, food insecurity, fruit and vegetable intake, student housing
Authors: Rebecca L Hagedorn; Laura H McArthur; Lanae B Hood; Maureen Berner; Elizabeth T Anderson Steeves; Carol L Connell; Elizabeth Wall-Bassett; Marsha Spence; Oyinlola Toyin Babatunde; E Brooke Kelly; Julia F Waity; J Porter Lillis; Melissa D Olfert Journal: Curr Dev Nutr Date: 2019-04-24