College Students' Barriers and Enablers for Healthful Weight Management: A Qualitative Study

Greaney, Mary L.; Less, Faith D.; White, Adrienne A.; Dayton, Sarah F.; Riebe, Deborah; Blissmer, Bryan; Shoff, Suzanne; Walsh, Jennifer; Greene, Geoffrey

doi:10.1016/j.jneb.2008.04.354

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“…The two studies above corroborate other studies that analyzed facilitators of and barriers to healthful eating in adolescents and young adults, namely: lack of time, financial instability, lack of cooking skills, cooking knowledge, space, and kitchen appliances, and easy access to unhealthy and convenience foods, including fast foods [7][8][9][10].…”

Section: Barriers To and Facilitators Of Healthful Eating In Universisupporting

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“…The cited facilitators were: intrapersonal factors (regular food intake and physical activity), interpersonal factors (social support), and environmental factors (university environment that facilitates the intake of healthy foods and physical activity). Yet, factors seen as barriers by some students, such as accessibility to the university cafeterias, were seen as facilitators by other students given how they perceived the availability of healthy foods at the universities [7].…”

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“…Hence, the time spent at university is recognized as an important phase to promote students' health and prevent diseases [1]. Some studies have discussed the possible barriers to and facilitators of healthier eating habits among young adults [7][8][9][10].…”

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Food intake of university students

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A B S T R A C TThis narrative literature review aimed to analyze the results of studies on the food intake of university students. A literature search was conducted in July 2014 and updated in July 2016 in the Scopus, MedLine/PubMed, and SciELO databases, using descriptors related to university students and food intake in English and Portuguese. Overall, 37 studies that analyzed university students' food intake were included in this review, eight of which were conducted in Brazil. The results demonstrated that most university students have unhealthy eating behaviors, such as high intake of fast foods, snacks, sweets, soft drinks, and alcoholic beverages, and low intake of fruits, vegetables, fish, whole grains, and legumes. Undergraduate students of health sciences, such as nursing, nutrition, and medicine, did not have healthier diets. University students' food intake was characterized as unhealthy, regardless of undergraduate program or sex, especially among students who left the parents' home and became responsible for their own food. Therefore, there is a need of developing public policies that promote healthy eating habits among students, such as interventions to change their eating habits and increase their access to healthy foods at the university environment.Keywords: Eating. Healthy diet. Public policies. Students. Universities. R E S U M O

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Section: Barriers To and Facilitators Of Healthful Eating In Universisupporting

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“…Research evidence indicates that a complex interplay of personal and environmental factors influence students' dietary habits and weight. College students select foods based on taste, time, schedule, convenience, cost, physical/social environments, and some for health or weight control reasons (9,10) . Ecological models for health behaviour change such as PRECEDE-PROCEED (11) posit the importance of environmental influences upon dietary behaviours and weight status.…”

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Assessment of the dining environment on and near the campuses of fifteen post-secondary institutions

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Objective: The present study evaluated the restaurant and dining venues on and near post-secondary campuses varying in institution size. Design: The Nutrition Environment Measures Survey for Restaurants (NEMS-R) was modified to evaluate restaurants as fast food, sit down and fast casual; and campus dining venues as dining halls, student unions and snack bar/cafés. ANOVA with post hoc Tukey's B and T tests were used to distinguish differences between dining venues and associated institutions by size. Setting: The study was conducted at fifteen US post-secondary institutions, 2009-2011. Subjects: Data presented are from a sample of 175 restaurants and sixty-eight on-campus dining venues. Results: There were minimal differences in dining halls by institution size, although medium-sized institutions as compared with small-sized institutions offered significantly more healthful side dish/salad bar items. Dining halls scored significantly higher than student unions or snack bar/cafés on healthful entrées, side dish/salad bar and beverages offerings, but they also had the most barriers to healthful dietary habits (i.e. all-you-can-eat). No differences were found by restaurant type for NEMS-R scores for total restaurant dining environment or healthful entrées and barriers. Snack bars had more healthful side dishes (P 5 0?002) and fast-food restaurants had the highest level of facilitators (i.e. nutrition information; P 5 0?002). Conclusions: Based on this evaluation in fifteen institutions, the full campus dining environment provides limited support for healthy eating and obesity prevention. The quality of campus dining environments can be improved via healthful offerings, providing nutrition information and other supports to facilitate healthy eating and prevent unwanted weight gain.

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“…Recent surveys indicate that 42 % of young adults do not meet recommendations for moderate or vigorous physical activity (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2012), while only 53 % report "eat[ing] to obtain or maintain a healthy weight" (American Heart Association and American Stroke Association 2011). Changing these health behaviors is difficult: the numerous barriers to improving physical activity and dietary behaviors among young adults include time and financial constraints and psychosocial and cultural influences (Myers and Roth 1997;Escoto et al 2012;James 2004;Turk et al 2012;Krist et al 2010;Walsh et al 2009;Greaney et al 2009). …”

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Genetic susceptibility testing for chronic disease and intention for behavior change in healthy young adults

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Genetic testing for chronic disease susceptibility may motivate young adults for preventive behavior change. This nationally representative survey gave 521 young adults hypothetical scenarios of receiving genetic susceptibility results for heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and stroke and asked their (1) interest in such testing, (2) anticipated likelihood of improving diet and physical activity with highand low-risk test results, and (3) readiness to make behavior change. Responses were analyzed by presence of established disease-risk factors. Respondents with high phenotypic diabetes risk reported increased likelihood of improving their diet and physical activity in response to highrisk results compared with those with low diabetes risk (odds ratio (OR), 1.82 (1.03, 3.21) for diet and OR, 2.64 (1.24, 5.64) for physical activity). In contrast, poor baseline diet (OR, 0.51 (0.27, 0.99)) and poor physical activity (OR, 0.53 (0.29, 0.99)) were associated with decreased likelihood of improving diet. Knowledge of genetic susceptibility may motivate young adults with higher personal diabetes risk for improvement in diet and exercise, but poor baseline behaviors are associated with decreased intention to make these changes. To be effective, genetic risk testing in young adults may need to be coupled with other strategies to enable behavior change.

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College Students' Barriers and Enablers for Healthful Weight Management: A Qualitative Study

Cited by 233 publications

References 25 publications

Food intake of university students

Food intake of university students

Assessment of the dining environment on and near the campuses of fifteen post-secondary institutions

Genetic susceptibility testing for chronic disease and intention for behavior change in healthy young adults

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