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Concept Development and Use of an Automated Food Intake and Eating Behavior Assessment Method
Published on: February 19, 2021
Predictors of college-student food security and fruit and vegetable intake differ by housing type
Erica Mirabitur1, Karen E Peterson2,3, Colleen Rathz1
1a College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan , USA.
Objective:
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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