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Food Pantries And Stigma: Users’ Concerns And Public Support, Peter A. Kindle, Mckayla Foust-Newton, Marissa Reis, Margaret Gell
Food Pantries And Stigma: Users’ Concerns And Public Support, Peter A. Kindle, Mckayla Foust-Newton, Marissa Reis, Margaret Gell
Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal
This study compares the perception of stigma measured as social distance between users (n = 40) and non-users (n = 202) of local food pantries in the Upper Midwest. Utilizing the concept of social distance to measure social disapproval and stigma with a new Food Pantry Stigma Scale, these nonprobability results indicated that users’ perception of stigma was significantly higher than the non-using public (Cohen’s d = 1.56). These findings suggest that public support for need-based use of local food pantries in the Upper Midwest is substantially higher than those facing food insecurity anticipate.
Food Deserts In Poor, Urban Areas, Isha Naik
Food Deserts In Poor, Urban Areas, Isha Naik
Petersheim Academic Exposition
No abstract provided.
Review Of Pressure Cooker: Why Home Cooking Won’T Solve Our Problems And What To Do About It By Sarah Bowen, Joslyn Brenton And Sinikka Elliott, John Tropman
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Review of Sarah Bowen, Joslyn Brenton and Sinikka Elliott, Pressure Cooker: Why Home Cooking Won’t Solve Our Problems and What to do About It. Oxford University Press (2019), 337 pages,
Wish4campus: Evaluating College Food Insecurity And Promoting Solutions For Student Wellbeing, Rebecca L. Hagedorn
Wish4campus: Evaluating College Food Insecurity And Promoting Solutions For Student Wellbeing, Rebecca L. Hagedorn
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
Introduction: Interest in college food insecurity has increased in previous years, however, little research focuses on the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States resulting in limited understanding of food insecurity’s impact on college students in these regions. Additionally, resources to help food insecure students are often sparse with universities lacking evidence-based programming to implement for student benefit.
Aims: This dissertation aims to (1) investigate the correlates and behavioral consequences of food insecurity on college students at an Appalachian university, (2) expand college food insecurity research to a regional investigation in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions, and (3) develop …