Exploring Patterns of Basic Needs in College Students
Pilot #2: CSU, Chico Specific Trends in Basic Needs
Food insecurity among college students is a serious problem that can impact student performance in the classroom and ultimately effect student success. The Center for Healthy Communities (CHC) developed the Basic Needs Student Success Survey (BNS3) and administered it to 402 undergraduate students participating in the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) at Chico State (n=145), Fresno State (n=134) and CSU, Northridge (n=123) from November 25th, 2020 to March 24th, 2021. This website shows the results specific to the Chico State campus. To see the combined campus trends for all three campuses, click here See combined campus trends here. The EOP office assisted in the recruitment and participants were given a $25 gift card for completing the survey. EOP students were identified as the target population for this survey based upon their low-income and first-generation student status, which indicates a higher probability of CalFresh eligibility.
The purpose of this second cross-sectional pilot study was to revise the BNS3 tool and assess student perception of the following:
- The impact of receiving CalFresh assistance.
- The impact of utilization of the campus food pantry on their health, nutrition, cooking confidence, time management and academic performance.
Researchers and campus staff are encouraged to review the information in this analysis to formulate additional research questions and hypotheses.
Disclaimer on Missing Data: Students were allowed to
select answers such as “Prefer not to answer” or “I don’t know” as
responses to every question asked. These answers were then converted to
missing values, denoted as NA, and this is the cause of the
missing data for certain questions (not 100% of respondents reporting).
The total number of non-missing responses (and percentage of the total
data) are provided for each question.
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🔎 How to use this website
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