🚀 go-pugleaf

I am beginning to do some research looking at the effect of 
college environments on student health risk behaviors.

I would appreciate any assistance but particularly am interested

1. to measure college environments
2.  looking at the relationship between environment and health
    risk behaviors.

I have found very little in either area but this may be because
I do not yet know how to look.  I have found a few things which
looked at the relationship between dormitory living and health
status, but nothing re: health risk behaviors.

This work is inspired by an exploratory study we did where we looked
at the differences in health risk behaviors in dorm vs commuting
students and we compared the health risk behaviors of students on
5 campuses of a large university.  In both cases, we could infer
possible causes based upon our impressions in the differences in
environments.  However, since we did not actually measure the
environments, this was actually close to pure suppositions.

We found enough differences to warrant further work to do a first
class job this time.  The commuter vs dorm study has been published
and the 5 campus study is just about to be published so it is time
to make the next move.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Joyce Morris      MORRIS@CANCER.RUTGERS.BITNET  or @CANCER.>BITNET
B245 Lucy Stone Hall        or 2519001@RUTMVS1.BITNET
Livingston Campus
Rutgers University
New Brunswick  NJ  08903