Expenditure, Coping, and Academic Behaviors among Food-Insecure College Students at 10 Higher Education Institutes in the Appalachian and Southeastern Regions.

Autor:	Hagedorn RL; Division of Animal and Nutritional Sciences, Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Design, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA., McArthur LH; Department of Nutrition and Health Care Management, Appalachian State University, Leon Levine School of Health Sciences, Boone, NC 28607, USA., Hood LB; Department of Nutrition, Health, and Human Performance, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC 27607, USA., Berner M; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Government, USA., Anderson Steeves ET; Department of Nutrition, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA., Connell CL; College of Education and Human Sciences, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406, USA., Wall-Bassett E; School of Health Sciences, Nutrition and Dietetics Program, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723, USA., Spence M; Department of Nutrition, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA., Babatunde OT; College of Allied Health Sciences, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27834, USA., Kelly EB; Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC 28372, USA., Waity JF; Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC 28403, USA., Lillis JP; Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC 28372, USA., Olfert MD; Division of Animal and Nutritional Sciences, Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Design, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Current developments in nutrition [Curr Dev Nutr] 2019 Apr 24; Vol. 3 (6), pp. nzz058. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Apr 24 (Print Publication: 2019).
DOI:	10.1093/cdn/nzz058
Abstrakt:	Background: A number of studies have measured college student food insecurity prevalence higher than the national average; however, no multicampus regional study among students at 4-y institutions has been undertaken in the Appalachian and Southeast regions of the United States. Objectives: The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of food insecurity among college students in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, and to determine the association between food-insecurity status and money expenditures, coping strategies, and academic performance among a regional sample of college students. Methods: This regional, cross-sectional, online survey study included 13,642 college students at 10 public universities. Food-insecurity status was measured through the use of the USDA Adult Food Security Survey. The outcomes were associations between food insecurity and behaviors determined with the use of the money expenditure scale (MES), the coping strategy scale (CSS), and the academic progress scale (APS). A forward-selection logistic regression model was used with all variables significant from individual Pearson chi-square and Wilcoxon analyses. The significance criterion α for all tests was 0.05. Results: The prevalence of food insecurity at the universities ranged from 22.4% to 51.8% with an average prevalence of 30.5% for the full sample. From the forward-selection logistic regression model, MES (OR: 1.47; 95% CI: 1.40, 1.55), CSS (OR: 1.19; 95% CI: 1.18, 1.21), and APS (OR: 0.95; 95% CI: 0.91, 0.99) scores remained significant predictors of food insecurity. Grade point average, academic year, health, race/ethnicity, financial aid, cooking frequency, and health insurance also remained significant predictors of food security status. Conclusions: Food insecurity prevalence was higher than the national average. Food-insecure college students were more likely to display high money expenditures and exhibit coping behaviors, and to have poor academic performance.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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