Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA.
J Nutr Educ Behav. 2022 Jun;54(6):491-498. doi: 10.1016/j.jneb.2022.03.001.
To examine retrospectively whether access to a campus food pantry (CFP) is related to improvements in sleep, mental health, and physical health among college students in a public university system.
Retrospective, cross-sectional study of student CFP users who completed an online survey in the summer of 2019.
Ten-campus University of California system.
A total of 1,855 students completed the survey.
Students reported the number of CFP visits in a usual week or month. Students retrospectively rated their perceived health, depressive symptoms, and sleep sufficiency before and after having food pantry access. The difference between pre- and post-food pantry access responses was calculated.
Path analysis was used to examine direct and indirect paths of the relationship between CFP visits with self-reported changes in depressive symptoms and perceived health through positive changes in self-reported sleep sufficiency, controlling for sociodemographic factors.
More monthly CFP visits were directly related to decreased depressive symptoms and improved perceived health (β = 0.10, P < 0.001; β = 0.12, P < 0.001). In addition, more CFP visits were related to improved sleep sufficiency (β = 0.09, P = 0.001), which in turn was related to a decrease in depressive symptoms (β = 0.24, P = 0.001; indirect effect: 0.02, P < 0.01) and improved perceived health (β = 0.23, P < 0.001; indirect effect: 0.02, P < 0.01).
Findings suggest that college campus emergency food access is associated with self-reported improvements in student health outcomes associated with food security. Until more long-term solutions that improve college student nutrition are developed, food pantries may be filling a gap.
回顾性研究在加州大学系统的一所公立大学中，校园食品储藏室（CFP）的使用是否与学生的睡眠质量、心理健康和身体健康的改善有关。
对 2019 年夏天完成在线调查的学生 CF 使用者进行回顾性、横断面研究。
加州大学十校区系统。
共有 1855 名学生完成了调查。
学生报告通常每周或每月访问 CFP 的次数。学生回顾性地评估了他们在获得食品储藏室使用权前后的健康感知、抑郁症状和睡眠充足程度。计算了食品储藏室使用权前后的自我报告变化差异。
路径分析用于检验 CFP 使用次数与自我报告的抑郁症状和健康感知变化之间的直接和间接关系，通过自我报告的睡眠充足程度的积极变化进行控制，考虑到社会人口因素。
更多的每月 CFP 访问量与抑郁症状的减少和健康感知的改善直接相关（β=0.10，P<0.001；β=0.12，P<0.001）。此外，更多的 CFP 访问量与睡眠充足程度的提高有关（β=0.09，P=0.001），这反过来又与抑郁症状的减少有关（β=0.24，P=0.001；间接效应：0.02，P<0.01）和健康感知的改善有关（β=0.23，P<0.001；间接效应：0.02，P<0.01）。
研究结果表明，大学校园紧急食品供应与与食品安全相关的学生健康结果的自我报告改善有关。在开发出更多改善大学生营养的长期解决方案之前，食品储藏室可能会填补这一空白。
