Abstract

Objective:

Food-insecure college students have expressed frustration toward their academic institution for failing to meet students’ needs. However, it is unclear whether campus climate perceptions are related to food insecurity status. We examined the association between campus climate surrounding health and food insecurity status among college students.

Participants:

Participants were undergraduate students (n = 1378) enrolled at a public university.

Methods:

We used secondary data from the American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment II (ACHA-NCHA-II) with campus-specific measures of campus climate and food insecurity status.

Results:

Findings showed that students with less favorable views of campus climate were between 1.85 and 1.74 times more likely to be food insecure, even after adjusting for demographics and financial hardship.

Conclusions:

Future research is needed to better understand how students’ campus climate perceptions can inform programs that effectively address food insecurity on college campuses.

摘要

客观的：

粮食不安全的大学生对他们的学术机构未能满足学生的需求表示失望。然而，尚不清楚校园气候认知是否与粮食不安全状况有关。我们研究了大学生健康周围的校园气候与粮食不安全状况之间的关联。

参加者：

参与者是公立大学的本科生（n = 1378）。

方法：

我们使用了美国大学健康协会-国家大学健康评估 II (ACHA-NCHA-II) 的二手数据以及针对校园气候和食品不安全状况的校园特定措施。

结果：

调查结果显示，即使在对人口统计数据和经济困难进行调整后，对校园氛围看法较差的学生出现粮食不安全的可能性要高出 1.85 至 1.74 倍。

结论：

未来的研究需要更好地了解学生的校园气候感知如何为有效解决大学校园粮食不安全问题的计划提供信息。