Food Insecurity, Self-rated Health, and Obesity among College Students

Knol, Linda L.; Robb, Cliff A.; McKinley, Erin; Wood, Mary

doi:10.1080/19325037.2017.1316689

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“…Associations between food security and insecurity with covariates is consistent with some previous findings. The health of food-insecure students has been previously reported as being fair or poor when compared to food secure students, comparable with our results [26][27][28]30]. This could be attributed to the role access to food and dietary quality play on mental and physical heath [156,162,163,168,170].…”

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“…Three systematic reviews have highlighted the heightened food insecurity prevalence for college students in the United States [3,21,22]. This is worrisome as food insecurity among college students has been associated with inadequate diet quality [23][24][25], poor self-reported health [23,[26][27][28][29][30], decreased academic performance [23,26,29,[31][32][33], and reliance on unhealthy coping behaviors [26,34,35]. Therefore, food insecurity is detrimental to a college students physical and mental well-being and can potentially impact successful degree attainment.…”

Section: Exact Prevalence Of Food Insecurity For the Entirety Of Appamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Shockingly, the findings showed that student food insecurity prevalence was 21%; a rate higher than the national average at the time of 11% [111] and nearly three times higher than the average prevalence in the state of Hawaii (7.8%) [112]. This first study was monumental in establishing that food insecurity might be a challenge many college students face and set forth the precedence for investigation on other including Alabama [27,115], Arizona [25,120], California [109,118,121,122], Florida [123], Hawaii [110], Illinois [124], Maryland [29], Massachusetts [125], Michigan [24],…”

Section: Food Insecurity Among College Students In the United Statesmentioning

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“…Other states have been represented in grey literature including Alaska [138], Arkansas [139], Minnesota [140] and New York [117]. However, only five of these studies have been conducted in the Appalachian region [26,27,115,132,137], consequently making the Appalachian region well represented in college food insecurity literature. As mentioned above, the Appalachian region is subject to poor health outcomes and prone to higher rates of food insecurity, therefore investigate of college food insecurity in this region is pertinent and should be targeted moving forward.…”

Section: Food Insecurity Among College Students In the United Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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WISH4Campus: Evaluating College Food Insecurity and Promoting Solutions for Student Wellbeing

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Interest in college food insecurity has increased in previous years, however, little research focuses on the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States resulting in limited understanding of food insecurity's impact on college students in these regions. Additionally, resources to help food insecure students are often sparse with universities lacking evidence-based programming to implement for student benefit. Aims: This dissertation aims to (1) investigate the correlates and behavioral consequences of food insecurity on college students at an Appalachian university, (2) expand college food insecurity research to a regional investigation in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions, and (3) develop and evaluate a toolkit of food insecurity initiatives that can assist higher education institutions in providing adequate resources for food insecure students. Methods: A 56 item, cross sectional survey was utilized for aims 1 and 2. Surveys were distributed to students attending 10 public universities in the Appalachian and Southeastern Regions between Spring 2016 and Spring 2018. Food security status was measured using the United States Department of Agriculture Adult Food Security Screener (USDA AFSS). This survey also included demographic, behavioral, health, and economic independent variables. Forward selection logistic regression was used to determine variables that increased the likelihood of being food insecure. Aim 3 used online survey data collection to capture feedback on the WISH4Campus (Wellbeing Increased by Security from Hunger) toolkit. Experts (n=126) from land-grant universities were sent a 27-question survey to determine perceptions of food insecurity and evaluation of specific toolkit components. Descriptive statistics and frequency analyses were performed on quantitative data and thematic analysis was used to analyze qualitative data. Results: Students at an Appalachian university (n=692) reported food insecurity prevalence at 36.6%. Results of the forward selection logistic regression showed money expenditure (MES), coping strategies (CSS), health, and academic year were significant predictors of food insecurity in college students. When expanded to a regional investigation of 13,642 college students, prevalence of food insecurity at the universities ranged from 22.4-51.8% with an average prevalence of 30.5%. From the forward selection logistic regression model, MES, CSS, academic performance (APS), grade point average (GPA), academic year, perceived health status, race/ethnicity, financial aid, cooking frequency, and health insurance were significant predictors of food security status. For aim 3, thirty experts completed the toolkit evaluation survey. Evaluation feedback covered four main topics: layout, overall content, initiatives, and application. Eight themes emerged from the coding and categorization of responses: visual appeal, organization, value, provoking, comprehensive, barriers, collaboration, and efficiency. Conclusion: Limited research has focused on college food insecuri...

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

Section: Exact Prevalence Of Food Insecurity For the Entirety Of Appamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Food Insecurity Among College Students In the United Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Food Insecurity Among College Students In the United Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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WISH4Campus: Evaluating College Food Insecurity and Promoting Solutions for Student Wellbeing

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“…Pesquisas realizadas com universitários de instituições de ensino superior brasileiras, mostraram prevalências de autoavaliação positiva de saúde (APS) de 69,8% 3 e 89,9% 4 . Em relação as pesquisas em outros países, observou-se prevalências de 18,5% e 85,2% em universitários egípcios 5 e estados unidenses 6 , respectivamente. Além disso, observa-se que os praticantes de atividades físicas associam-se a uma melhor autoavaliação de saúde 3 e que a prática no tempo livre em intensidade moderada a vigorosa por 175 minutos em homens e 30 minutos em mulheres, discrimina a APS em universitários 7 .…”

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Efeito da substituição do tempo de tela e atividades físicas no lazer na percepção positiva de saúde de universitários

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Barros

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Rev Bras Ativ Fís Saúde

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O objetivo deste estudo foi estimar o impacto da substituição do tempo de prática de atividades físicas no lazer e comportamentos sedentários sobre a autoavaliação positiva da saúde em universitários de uma instituição de ensino superior do estado da Bahia. Foram realizados dois inquéritos repetidos com universitários de uma mesma instituição nos anos de 2012 e 2014. A autoavaliação positiva de saúde foi o desfecho deste estudo. O tempo por dia despendido em 17 modalidades e o tempo no total de atividades físicas no lazer, mais quatro comportamentos sedentários de tela e tempo de tela no total foram padronizados por uma constante de 30 minutos. O modelo de substituição isotemporal foi empregado por meio da estimativa do Odds Ratio (OR), via regressão logística binaria. O nível de significância foi de 5%. Houve a participação de 1.085 e 1.041 universitários nos anos de 2012 e 2014, respectivamente. Observou-se maiores chances de percepção positiva da saúde ao realocar o tempo de uso de computador em pesquisas para a prática de futebol, lutas, corrida em esteira e musculação. De modo geral, maiores chances de autoavaliação positiva da saúde foram mostrados ao realocar 30 minutos por dia do tempo de tela no total para o tempo de prática de atividades físicas no lazer no total (OR = 1,14; IC95%: 1,10–1,18). Conclui-se que substituir pelo menos 30 minutos por dia de uso de computador em pesquisas para a prática de atividades físicas no lazer, maximiza a autoavaliação positiva do nível de saúde em universitários.

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Physical Health, Mental Health, and Nutrition

Henry

2019

Experiences of Hunger and Food Insecurity in College

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Food Insecurity, Self-rated Health, and Obesity among College Students

Cited by 60 publications

References 43 publications

WISH4Campus: Evaluating College Food Insecurity and Promoting Solutions for Student Wellbeing

WISH4Campus: Evaluating College Food Insecurity and Promoting Solutions for Student Wellbeing

Efeito da substituição do tempo de tela e atividades físicas no lazer na percepção positiva de saúde de universitários

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