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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Obesity Intervention"”.
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Pediatric Obesity: Intervention Outcomes
<p>Childhood obesity is a national epidemic with serious medical and psychological implications. Almost one-fourth of children in the United States are overweight. Children do not typically grow out of obesity and without intervention the majority of overweight children become overweight adults. …
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Individual, home and neighborhood factors related to childhood obesity intervention
Obesity is one of the most pressing global population health issues, and importantly one that affects racial/ethnic minorities and those of low socioeconomic status disproportionately. Obesity tracks from childhood into adulthood and is related to serious medical and economic consequences …
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The Implementation of Support Calls in a Pilot Childhood Obesity Intervention
… literacy in parents has been linked to increased obesity risk for their children. When providing information to patients with low health literacy, teach-back (TB) and teach-to-goal (TTG) methods are recommended, but no studies have examined the degree to which TB/TTG strategies can be implemented …
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A Retrospective Analysis of Maternal and Child Outcomes Following an Obesity Intervention Program
… One of the highest risk groups for childhood obesity and associated co-morbidities in the United States are low-income Hispanic preschool children. To reduce obesity, effective interventions are being sought to improve health behaviors among high risks groups. Objectives: To evaluate a subset …
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Analyzing Inconsistent Results of Table Transformer for Improved Data Extraction in Childhood Obesity Intervention Literature
… model, with a specific application to childhood obesity intervention studies. While fine-tuning TATR on a domain-specific dataset improves detection metrics, persistent errors such as overlapping rows and misclassified header columns remain. Through a systematic post-hoc error analysis of 175 …
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The influence of ethnicity, socioeconomic status and obesity intervention on body composition in UK children and adolescents
The prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity has increased over the last twenty years. Additionally, obesity and its related morbidities are not equally distributed across the UK population with it varying between sexes, age groups, socioeconomic groups and ethnic groups. This thesis is …
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Enhancing Interventions for Pediatric Obesity Among Young Latino Children: A Mixed Methods Study
… the effectiveness of current childhood obesity interventions. Programs that have demonstrated success with other racial and ethnic groups have not translated into successful outcomes for Latino families. This may be due to inadequate attention to important cultural factors for Latinos. …
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Relationship between sedentary lifestyle patterns and obesity among adults in Ha-Tshikundamalema Area of Limpopo Province, South Africa
Sedentary lifestyle may contribute to obesity and non-communicable diseases, which are the major public health problem in South Africa. This study investigated the relationship between sedentary lifestyle and obesity among adults in Ha-Tshikundamalema area. A quantitative descriptive …
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Childhood obesity treatment: integrating mobile health technology into a paediatric obesity service
Background: The management of childhood obesity is challenging. Aims: Thesis, i) reviews the evidence for lifestyle treatment of obesity, ii) explores cardiometabolic burden in childhood obesity, iii) explores whether changes in body composition predicts change in insulin sensitivity (IS), iv) …
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Effects of Maternal Depression on Childhood Overweight and Obesity: Findings from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study.
<p>Overweight and obesity among children and youth in the United States is a serious public health concern. The longitudinal relationships between maternal depression and childhood overweight and obesity were examined using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development …
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Exploring the Short-Sleep Obesity Association in Young Children
… duration is associated with increased risk of obesity from early childhood. Childhood obesity and inadequate sleep have negative consequences for health and well-being, and the ability to target both of these public health concerns with a novel obesity intervention involving sleep extension is …
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Qualitative service evaluation of interventions aimed at improving the maternal and infant nutrition of disadvantaged populations
… in infancy, childhood and later life. Many NHS interventions have been developed to help address these issues including food skills groups aimed at women of childbearing age and antenatal and postpartum services for mothers living in deprived areas.<br/>To evaluate service users’, from deprived …
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IDENTIFYING AND TREATING YOUTH UNRESPONSIVE TO SCHOOL-BASED BEHAVIORAL OBESITY TREATMENT
Obesity is a pervasive chronic disease that disproportionately affects low income, ethnic minority populations. Individual response to adolescent obesity treatment is well documented. This project identified characteristics of low income, Hispanic middle school students that distinguished between …
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The Influence of Child and Parent Health Literacy Status on Health Outcomes from a Childhood Obesity Treatment Program
… an adapted evidence-based family-based childhood obesity intervention, iChoose, implemented in the medically underserved Dan River Region (DRR). Previously developed measures were used to assess health literacy and health behaviors. iChoose consisted of 101-parent-child dyads. Using the New Vital …
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Three Essays on Systems Thinking and Dynamic Modeling in Obesity Prevention Interventions
Essay #1 - Parental Social Influence in Childhood Obesity Interventions: a Systematic Review The objective of this study is to understand the pathways through which social influence at the family level moderates childhood obesity interventions. We conducted a systematic review of obesity …
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Assessing School Neighborhood Walkability: A Targeted Approach to Safe Routes to School Programming
… physical activity, a determinant of childhood obesity by encouraging children’s regular active transportation use. This thesis supports the widespread implementation of SRTS and has developed the "Shelling Model" to objectively identify schools for programming. Accordingly, the "Shelling Model" …
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Farm to Fork: A Culinary- and Farm-Enhanced Nutrition Education Program
With obesity in adolescents becoming a major health problem in the United States, there has been an expansion in the use of nutritional education programs as intervention. Effective nutrition education can decrease the incidence of obesity and other diet-related chronic diseases, type-2 diabetes, …
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Computer-based nutrition education for adolescents: systematic review and focus on embedded videos
… can support. Computer-based nutrition education interventions are being utilized more frequently than in previous decades; however, there is a lack of research to support their overall efficacy and a lack of evaluation of which elements within the interventions deliver the greatest impact. First, …