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JaKa, Meghan M.; French, Simone A.; Wolfson, Julian; Jeffery, Robert W.; Lorencatto, Fabianna; Michie, Susan; Levy, Rona L.; Langer, Shelby L.; Sherwood, Nancy E. – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Background: Behavioral interventions to prevent pediatric obesity have shown inconsistent results across the field. Studying what happens within the "black box" of these interventions and how differences in implementation lead to different outcomes will help researchers develop more effective interventions. Aim: To compare the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Obesity, Parent Child Relationship, Prevention
Malone, Susan Kohl; Zemel, Babette S. – Journal of School Nursing, 2015
The landscape of childhood health and disease has changed over the past century, and school nurses are now in a unique position to address the conditions that lead to chronic disease, such as obesity. Measuring body mass index (BMI) during childhood and adolescence is the recommended method for screening and/or monitoring obesity in school…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Measurement, Children, Adolescents
Wathne, Kjetil; Mburu, Christina Brux; Middelthon, Anne-Lise – Sport, Education and Society, 2015
Globally, paediatric obesity causes widespread concern, and the role of ethnicity is an important focus. Investigating how culture can mediate health-related behaviour through ideas about bodies, food and physical activity, while addressing a notion that the Pakistani community in Norway is particularly conservative and slow to change, this…
Descriptors: Obesity, Foreign Countries, Role, Ethnicity
Hamilton, Erin R.; Teitler, Julien O.; Reichman, Nancy E. – Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2011
Mexican American children have a weight distribution that categorizes them as relatively healthy at birth but relatively unhealthy by age 3. This early life course transition in health based on weight raises the question of whether Mexican American children "outgrow" the epidemiologic paradox of favorable birth outcomes despite social disadvantage…
Descriptors: Obesity, Mexican Americans, Children, Hispanic Americans
Lawrence, Shawn; Hazlett, Rebekah; Hightower, Peggy – Health & Social Work, 2010
The childhood and adolescent overweight and obesity rates are rising at an alarming rate. Numerous individual, family, community, and social factors contribute to overweight and obesity in children and are explored. If left unaddressed, the epidemic of childhood and adolescent overweight and obesity may lead to amplified problems for individual…
Descriptors: Obesity, Children, Social Environment, Social Work
Dwyer, Genevieve; Baur, Louise; Higgs, Joy; Hardy, Louise – Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 2009
Physical activity is essential to promote children's health and well-being. Increased sedentary behavior in children is a factor contributing to the escalation in childhood obesity in the general population. Clinical conditions, particularly physical disabilities, which reduce physical activity, may also lead to a higher risk of being overweight…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Obesity, Physical Activities, Physical Disabilities
Steele, Ric G.; Wu, Yelena P.; Jensen, Chad D.; Pankey, Sydni; Davis, Ann M.; Aylward, Brandon S. – Journal of School Health, 2011
Background: Previous studies have documented the presence of specific barriers to school nurses' communications with families about weight-related health. The purpose of the present study was to contribute to the literature by further analyzing, using focus group methodology, school nurses' perceived barriers to addressing weight-related health…
Descriptors: Barriers, Body Weight, Obesity, Health Promotion