Tap water perceptions and water filter use vary with socio-demographic characteristics and are associated with water and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in university students.

Autor:	Slotnick MJ; Department of Nutritional Sciences, The University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI48109, USA., Wolfson JA; Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.; Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA., Leung CW; Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Public health nutrition [Public Health Nutr] 2023 Nov; Vol. 26 (11), pp. 2288-2293. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Aug 15.
DOI:	10.1017/S1368980023001659
Abstrakt:	Objective: The goal of this study is to evaluate university students' perceptions of tap water safety and water filter use and determine how these perceptions and behaviours affect water and sugar-sweetened beverage intake. Design: Cross-sectional; online survey conducted in Fall 2021. Setting: A large, public Midwestern university in the USA. Participants: Seven-hundred ninety-three university students. Results: Students who experienced food insecurity, were on a Pell grant, were first-generation college students or were racial/ethnic minorities were less likely to trust tap water safety. Tap water filtration behaviour also varied by age and race/ethnicity. Students who did not agree with the statement 'my local tap water is safe to drink' had lower odds of consuming ≥ 3 cups of total water per day (OR = 0·45, 95 % CI: 0·32, 0·62), lower odds of consuming tap water ≥ 3 times/d (OR = 0·46, 95 % CI: 0·34, 0·64), higher odds of drinking bottled water ≥ 1 time per day (OR = 1·80, 95 % CI: 1·22, 2·66) and higher odds of drinking SSB ≥ 1 time per day (OR = 1·47, 95 % CI: 1·01, 2·14) than those who agreed. Students who always or sometimes filtered their tap water had lower odds of consuming ≥ 3 cups of total water per day (OR = 0·59, 95 % CI: 0·39, 0·90) than students who never filtered their tap water. Conclusions: Tap water perceptions and behaviours affect tap and bottled water and SSB intake among university students. Tap water perceptions and behaviours in this demographic provide important context for university programming promoting healthy beverage initiatives.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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