'Spending all this time stressing and worrying and calculating': marginal food security and student life at a Diverse Urban University.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Food security status is a continuum ranging from high to very low food security. While marginal food security falls next to high food security on the spectrum, new quantitative research indicates marginal food security status is associated with negative health outcomes and poor academic performance among college students. Qualitative research focusing on college students experiencing marginal food security has not been conducted. The current study aims to qualitatively explore experiences of college students with marginal food security and to identify themes to better understand and provide context regarding how marginal food security impacts students.

Design

Students were recruited for semi-structured interviews with questions designed to study the challenges asso

SUBMITTER: Gamba RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9884784 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature