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

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...

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Autores principales: Hagedorn, Rebecca L, McArthur, Laura H, Hood, Lanae B, Berner, Maureen, Anderson Steeves, Elizabeth T, Connell, Carol L, Wall-Bassett, Elizabeth, Spence, Marsha, Babatunde, Oyinlola Toyin, Kelly, E Brooke, Waity, Julia F, Lillis, J Porter, Olfert, Melissa D
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6536735/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31149651
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzz058
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author Hagedorn, Rebecca L
McArthur, Laura H
Hood, Lanae B
Berner, Maureen
Anderson Steeves, Elizabeth T
Connell, Carol L
Wall-Bassett, Elizabeth
Spence, Marsha
Babatunde, Oyinlola Toyin
Kelly, E Brooke
Waity, Julia F
Lillis, J Porter
Olfert, Melissa D
author_facet Hagedorn, Rebecca L
McArthur, Laura H
Hood, Lanae B
Berner, Maureen
Anderson Steeves, Elizabeth T
Connell, Carol L
Wall-Bassett, Elizabeth
Spence, Marsha
Babatunde, Oyinlola Toyin
Kelly, E Brooke
Waity, Julia F
Lillis, J Porter
Olfert, Melissa D
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-65367352019-05-30 Expenditure, Coping, and Academic Behaviors among Food-Insecure College Students at 10 Higher Education Institutes in the Appalachian and Southeastern Regions Hagedorn, Rebecca L McArthur, Laura H Hood, Lanae B Berner, Maureen Anderson Steeves, Elizabeth T Connell, Carol L Wall-Bassett, Elizabeth Spence, Marsha Babatunde, Oyinlola Toyin Kelly, E Brooke Waity, Julia F Lillis, J Porter Olfert, Melissa D Curr Dev Nutr Original Research 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. Oxford University Press 2019-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6536735/ /pubmed/31149651 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzz058 Text en Copyright © American Society for Nutrition 2019. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Hagedorn, Rebecca L
McArthur, Laura H
Hood, Lanae B
Berner, Maureen
Anderson Steeves, Elizabeth T
Connell, Carol L
Wall-Bassett, Elizabeth
Spence, Marsha
Babatunde, Oyinlola Toyin
Kelly, E Brooke
Waity, Julia F
Lillis, J Porter
Olfert, Melissa D
Expenditure, Coping, and Academic Behaviors among Food-Insecure College Students at 10 Higher Education Institutes in the Appalachian and Southeastern Regions
title Expenditure, Coping, and Academic Behaviors among Food-Insecure College Students at 10 Higher Education Institutes in the Appalachian and Southeastern Regions
title_full Expenditure, Coping, and Academic Behaviors among Food-Insecure College Students at 10 Higher Education Institutes in the Appalachian and Southeastern Regions
title_fullStr Expenditure, Coping, and Academic Behaviors among Food-Insecure College Students at 10 Higher Education Institutes in the Appalachian and Southeastern Regions
title_full_unstemmed Expenditure, Coping, and Academic Behaviors among Food-Insecure College Students at 10 Higher Education Institutes in the Appalachian and Southeastern Regions
title_short Expenditure, Coping, and Academic Behaviors among Food-Insecure College Students at 10 Higher Education Institutes in the Appalachian and Southeastern Regions
title_sort expenditure, coping, and academic behaviors among food-insecure college students at 10 higher education institutes in the appalachian and southeastern regions
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6536735/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31149651
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzz058
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