TY - JOUR
T1 - Struggling with the basics
T2 - food and housing insecurity among college students across twenty-two colleges and universities
AU - Olfert, Melissa D.
AU - Hagedorn-Hatfield, Rebecca L.
AU - Houghtaling, Bailey
AU - Esquivel, Monica K.
AU - Hood, Lanae B.
AU - MacNell, Lillian
AU - Soldavini, Jessica
AU - Berner, Maureen
AU - Savoie Roskos, Mateja R.
AU - Hingle, Melanie D.
AU - Mann, Georgianna R.
AU - Waity, Julia F.
AU - Knol, Linda L.
AU - Walsh, Jennifer
AU - Kern-Lyons, Valerie
AU - Paul, Christopher
AU - Pearson, Keith
AU - Goetz, Jeannine R.
AU - Spence, Marsha
AU - Anderson-Steeves, Elizabeth
AU - Wall-Bassett, Elizabeth D.
AU - Lillis, J. Porter
AU - Kelly, E. Brooke
AU - Hege, Adam
AU - Fontenot, Mary Catherine
AU - Coleman, Patricia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Objectives: To quantify the number and type of students failing to secure basic needs. Participants: Students attending 22 postsecondary schools in the United States in Fall 2019. Methods: The Adult Food Security Module and part of the #RealCollege Survey were used to measure food and housing insecurity, respectively. Logistic and linear regression models were used to assess the relationship between selected factors and basic needs insecurities. Results: Participants (n = 22,153) were classified as 44.1% and 52.3% food insecure and housing insecure, respectively. Homeless students or those who experienced childhood food insecurity were at the greatest odds of college food insecurity. Year in school was the largest contributor to being housing insecure, with PhD or EdD students being 1,157% more likely to experience housing insecurity compared to freshmen. Conclusions: High prevalence of basic needs insecurities remain. Current campus initiatives may be insufficient, calling for a more holistic approach at the campus, state, and national levels.
AB - Objectives: To quantify the number and type of students failing to secure basic needs. Participants: Students attending 22 postsecondary schools in the United States in Fall 2019. Methods: The Adult Food Security Module and part of the #RealCollege Survey were used to measure food and housing insecurity, respectively. Logistic and linear regression models were used to assess the relationship between selected factors and basic needs insecurities. Results: Participants (n = 22,153) were classified as 44.1% and 52.3% food insecure and housing insecure, respectively. Homeless students or those who experienced childhood food insecurity were at the greatest odds of college food insecurity. Year in school was the largest contributor to being housing insecure, with PhD or EdD students being 1,157% more likely to experience housing insecurity compared to freshmen. Conclusions: High prevalence of basic needs insecurities remain. Current campus initiatives may be insufficient, calling for a more holistic approach at the campus, state, and national levels.
KW - Basic needs
KW - college
KW - food insecurity
KW - housing insecurity
KW - student
KW - university
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U2 - 10.1080/07448481.2021.1978456
DO - 10.1080/07448481.2021.1978456
M3 - Article
C2 - 34586041
AN - SCOPUS:85116037915
SN - 0744-8481
VL - 71
SP - 2518
EP - 2529
JO - Journal of American College Health
JF - Journal of American College Health
IS - 8
ER -