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Assessment Of The Campus Food Environment Using Components Of The Healthy Campus Environmental Audit, Candace Sorden
Assessment Of The Campus Food Environment Using Components Of The Healthy Campus Environmental Audit, Candace Sorden
Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The objective was to assess whether the food environment at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) campuses supports healthy eating behaviors using components of the Healthy Campus Environmental Audit (vending, dining, and convenience store audits). Secondary aims were to compare the UNL food environment to other college campuses and explore whether there are existing health promotion and obesity prevention initiatives, programs, pledges and/or policies at UNL.
Research team members accessed a secure online website to review training materials prepared by Syracuse University. Evaluators did audit practice trials to meet inter-rater reliability score standards (>80%). audits were conducted at designated sites …