Basic Needs Insecurities Are Associated with Anxiety, Depression, and Poor Health Among University Students in the State of New Mexico.
Basic needs insecurities affect university students disproportionately and may impact health and academic performance. This study examined associations between food insecurity (FI), housing insecurity (HI) and a novel basic needs insecurity score, and mental and physical health among university stud...
| Published in: | Journal of Community Health Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 454 - 464 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=157212990&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 157212990 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00945145 JCH jtl: Journal of Community Health issn: 00945145 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2022 vid: 47 iid: 3 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 157212990 10.1007/s10900-022-01073-9 ppf: 454 ppct: 10 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 549KB tig: atl: Basic Needs Insecurities Are Associated with Anxiety, Depression, and Poor Health Among University Students in the State of New Mexico. aug: au: Coakley, Kathryn E. Cargas, Sarita Walsh-Dilley, Marygold Mechler, Heather affil: Department of Individual, Family and Community Education, College of Education & Human Sciences, 1 University of New Mexico, MSC05 3042, 87131, Albuquerque, NM, USA Honors College, University of New Mexico, 87131, Albuquerque, NM, USA Department of Geography & Environmental Studies, University of New Mexico, 87131, Albuquerque, NM, USA Office of Institutional Analytics, University of New Mexico, 87131, Albuquerque, NM, USA su: New Mexico Basic needs Psychology of college students Food security Cross-sectional method Internet Self-evaluation Mental health Health status indicators Undergraduates Mental depression Anxiety Student attitudes Sociodemographic factors Needs assessment Multiple regression analysis Surveys Questionnaires Descriptive statistics Statistical sampling Odds ratio sug: subj: Basic needs Psychology of college students Food security Cross-sectional method Internet Self-evaluation Mental health Health status indicators Undergraduates Mental depression Anxiety Student attitudes Sociodemographic factors Needs assessment New Mexico Wired Telecommunications Carriers Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians) Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling Multiple regression analysis Surveys Questionnaires Descriptive statistics Statistical sampling Odds ratio keyword: College students Depression Food insecurity Housing insecurity College students Depression Food insecurity Housing insecurity ab: Basic needs insecurities affect university students disproportionately and may impact health and academic performance. This study examined associations between food insecurity (FI), housing insecurity (HI) and a novel basic needs insecurity score, and mental and physical health among university students. Eight-thousand undergraduate and postgraduate students at a large university in the southwestern U.S. were selected via stratified random sampling to complete an online cross-sectional survey in April 2021. The survey included the USDA 10-item food security module, a 9-item housing insecurity measure, the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-2 screener (GAD-2), the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2) assessing depression, and self-rated health. Sociodemographics were self-reported and integrated from the university's enterprise system. Multiple logistic regression was utilized to examine odds of depression, anxiety, and fair/poor health by food and housing security status. Multiple linear regression was utilized to examine predictors of food insecurity score (range = 0–10), housing insecurity score (range = 0–9), and an overall basic needs insecurity score (range = 0–19). Eight-hundred thirty-three students participated (response rate = 10.4%; mean age = 28.3 years, 66% female, 40% Hispanic, 60% undergraduates). Nearly 26% were food insecure in the past month and 44% were housing insecure in the past year. Basic needs insecurities significantly increased odds of anxiety (FI aOR = 4.35, HI aOR = 3.43), depression (FI aOR = 3.18, HI aOR = 3.16), and fair/poor health (FI aOR = 2.84, HI aOR = 2.81). GAD-2 score explained the most variance in food (r-squared = 0.14), housing (r-squared = 0.12), and basic needs insecurity scores (r-squared = 0.16). Basic needs insecurities remain concerns among university students due to associations with mental and physical health, prompting a critical need for multifaceted interventions. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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