Mental Well-Being of Students

Introduction

The topic for the study conducted was about food insecurity among a group of university freshman. In past research done with college students, the participants ranged from lower classmen to upperclassmen and they were from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. These prior studies showed that food insecurity affected almost fifty percent of the students surveyed and the participants had stated that they had noticed differences in their health behaviors and education due to food insecurity.

Those students found it difficult to study and focus on work due to their hunger, especially if they didn’t eat the most important meal of the day, which is breakfast.

In the long run, food insecurity affected their school work and term GPA’s. Although this current study only consists of college freshmen instead of the whole student body, I believe the study will find a link between inadequate nutritional food intake and negative impact on their education. Other studies were included in this research, like physical health, leisure activities and daily life items.

My hypothesis for this part of the study is that evidence will show that other parts of a freshman students life affect educational progress, as well.

Method

This study consisted of four studies throughout the school year. 1138 participants took part in the first study, 555 with the second study, 428 with the third, and 400 with the fourth. They lived in six dorms on different campuses of a university. Out of those researched, sixty-five percent were women and forty-nine percent were from a ethnic group other than White.

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Self-reported data collected by the researcher was taken from web-based surveys, which took about thirty minutes to complete. In these surveys were questions about physical activity, food intake, how much sleep they are getting, alcohol intake, what they do in their free time, and how they think their mental balance is. There were also questions regarding race and culture. As far as what the participants actually did, they took surveys that took about twenty to thirty minutes and had their weight/height checked.

Results

Although this current study only consists of college freshmen instead of the whole student body, I believe the study will find a link between inadequate nutritional food intake and negative impact on their education. Other studies were included in this research, like physical health, leisure activities and daily life items. My hypothesis for this part of the study is that evidence will show that other parts of a freshman students life affect educational progress, as well. What statistical tests did the researchers use when they analyzed the data? In everyday English, what do the statistical results tell you? Are the results consistent with those of earlier research?

Discussion

There were some findings that were surprising in the study. Compared to the national rates of college students and food insecurity, the current study found the number of students suffering from food shortage to be very high. This supports my hypothesis that eating habits and impact on mental wellbeing would still be prevalent in this current research. Other studies were included in this research, like physical health, leisure activities and daily life items.

My hypothesis for this part of the study is that evidence will show that other parts of a freshman students life affect educational progress, as well. The evidence concluded that my hypothesis was incorrect. The study showed that everyday behavior, such as alcohol intake, physical activity, sleep patterns, and how much the students weigh. Why do the researchers think their findings are important? Education for college employees can help assist in this food insecurity problem on campuses nationwide. This can be accomplished through proper training of campus’ employees like teachers, mental health professionals, and doctors. If these employees knew what to be on the lookout for, they would be able to encourage students as to better ways to take care of themselves mentally and physically through appropriate eating habits and ways of accessing food in their area.