Predictors of college-student food security and fruit and vegetable intake differ by housing type |
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| Authors: | Erica Mirabitur Karen E. Peterson Colleen Rathz Stacey Matlen |
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| Affiliation: | 1. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA;2. Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA;3. Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA;4. Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACTObjective: 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 |
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