OBJECTIVE Although previous research has suggested that college housing impacts student behavior and outcomes, recent research linking college housing to risk-taking has been limited. In this study, we investigate if patterns of risk behavior differ based on the type of college housing environment students reside in. PARTICIPANTS This study utilizes 510 college students living in on-campus co...

The study evaluated the physical qualities and satisfaction in students’ housing in selectedStudents’ Housing for the University of Ibadan. Through survey method, eight hostels were purposively selected tocapture variation in gender, level of study and hostel design. The sampling frame showed that 5605 students at UI werefound in 2,147 rooms. One out of every 10 (10%) of the rooms were selected...

BACKGROUND Cigarette-smoking rates have increased in recent years among college students. Smoke-free residences offer a possible means of reducing or preventing smoking. However, their use has as yet not been evaluated. This paper examines whether students residing in smoke-free residences are less likely to smoke cigarettes than students in other campus residences, and if such lower rates appl...

Current trends of housing development and rapid enrolment change are impacting students’ daily life such as their housing comfort, convenience and safety. This research is undertaken to study the challenges faced by the students’ well-being with regards to off-campus living environment. This study requires a key informant interview survey with samples taken from Division of Students Affairs, Un...

The exemption of student housing from the BC Residential Tenancy Act (RTA) in 2002 left thousands of student tenants without rental rights. In the wake of this legislative change, student housing contracts have become one-sided, without due attention to procedural fairness, and often ignoring the rights of the tenant, in favour of the institution. These contracts treat student housing as univer...

BACKGROUND A discrete choice experiment was conducted to investigate preferences for job characteristics among nursing students and practicing nurses to determine how these groups vary in their respective preferences and to understand whether differing policies may be appropriate for each group. METHODS Participating students and workers were administered a discrete choice experiment that eli...

At Southern Utah University, Kourt Osborn, a transgender student, was denied a dorm room because of his gender identity. Born as a female, Osborn, who identifies as a male, applied to live in the male dorms. The University determined that Osborn could live in the men’s dormitory only with physician supervision of his hormone treatment, therapist acknowledgment of his Gender Identity Disorder, a...

This paper uses the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to investigate the impact of housing instability in adolescence on the likelihood of subsequent graduation from high school. Combining census data, self-reports, and information about respondents' residential changes, we use the variation in households' number of moves and neighborhood quality to predict whether participants o...