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Rationale and design of “Hearts & Parks”: study protocol for a pragmatic randomized clinical trial of an integrated clinic-community intervention to treat pediatric obesity

Community Health, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710, USA Mary Story Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710, USA Nancy Zucker University of North Carolina ... also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar Svati H. Shah View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar Mary Story View author publications You

Effectiveness of school food environment policies on children’s dietary behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis

, Eirini Trichia. Funding acquisition: Renata Micha, Dariush Mozaffarian. Investigation: Renata Micha, Dariush Mozaffarian. Methodology: Renata Micha, Dimitra Karageorgou, Laurie P. Whitsel, Mary Story ... Mozaffarian. Validation: Renata Micha, Dimitra Karageorgou, Laurie P. Whitsel, Mary Story, Jose L. Peñalvo, Dariush Mozaffarian. Visualization: Renata Micha, Dimitra Karageorgou, Ioanna Bakogianni. Writing

Towards universal access to skilled birth attendance: the process of transforming the role of traditional birth attendants in Rural China

Background Institution-based childbirth, with the ultimate goal of universal access to skilled birth attendance (SBA), has been selected as a key strategy to reduce the maternal mortality rate in many developing countries. However, the question of how to engage traditional birth attendants (TBAs) in the advocacy campaign for SBA poses a number of challenges. This paper aims to...

Towards universal access to skilled birth attendance: the process of transforming the role of traditional birth attendants in Rural China

Zhongshan Road, Shanghai, 200336, ChinaJian LiDuke Global Health Institute, Duke University, 310 Trent Drive, Durham, NC, 27710, USAErin Escobar, Mary Story & Shenglan Tang AuthorsSearch for Hong Jiang ... • Google Scholar Search for Mary Story in:PubMed • Google Scholar Search for Shenglan Tang in:PubMed • Google Scholar Corresponding author Correspondence to Xu Qian. Additional information Competing

Promoting healthful family meals to prevent obesity: HOME Plus, a randomized controlled trial

Background Family meal frequency has been shown to be strongly associated with better dietary intake; however, associations with weight status have been mixed. Family meals-focused randomized controlled trials with weight outcomes have not been previously conducted. Therefore, this study purpose was to describe weight-related outcomes of the HOME Plus study, the first family...

Promoting healthful family meals to prevent obesity: HOME Plus, a randomized controlled trial

Family meal frequency has been shown to be strongly associated with better dietary intake; however, associations with weight status have been mixed. Family meals-focused randomized controlled trials with weight outcomes have not been previously conducted. Therefore, this study purpose was to describe weight-related outcomes of the HOME Plus study, the first family meals-focused...

HOME Plus: Program design and implementation of a family-focused, community-based intervention to promote the frequency and healthfulness of family meals, reduce children’s sedentary behavior, and prevent obesity

Background Involvement in meal preparation and eating meals with one’s family are associated with better dietary quality and healthy body weight for youth. Given the poor dietary quality of many youth, potential benefits of family meals for better nutritional intake and great variation in family meals, development and evaluation of interventions aimed at improving and increasing...

HOME Plus: Program design and implementation of a family-focused, community-based intervention to promote the frequency and healthfulness of family meals, reduce children’s sedentary behavior, and prevent obesity

Involvement in meal preparation and eating meals with one’s family are associated with better dietary quality and healthy body weight for youth. Given the poor dietary quality of many youth, potential benefits of family meals for better nutritional intake and great variation in family meals, development and evaluation of interventions aimed at improving and increasing family...

Development and validation of a screening instrument to assess the types and quality of foods served at home meals

Background Although there is growing interest in assessing the home food environment, no easy-to-use, low cost tools exist to assess the foods served at home meals, making it difficult to assess the meal component of the food environment. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a user-friendly screener to assess the types of foods served at home meals. Methods Primary...

Development and validation of a screening instrument to assess the types and quality of foods served at home meals

Although there is growing interest in assessing the home food environment, no easy-to-use, low cost tools exist to assess the foods served at home meals, making it difficult to assess the meal component of the food environment. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a user-friendly screener to assess the types of foods served at home meals. Primary food preparing...

Summer effects on body mass index (BMI) gain and growth patterns of American Indian children from kindergarten to first grade: a prospective study

Background Overweight and obesity are highly prevalent among American Indian children, especially those living on reservations. There is little scientific evidence about the effects of summer vacation on obesity development in children. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of summer vacation between kindergarten and first grade on growth in height, weight, and...

Summer effects on body mass index (BMI) gain and growth patterns of American Indian children from kindergarten to first grade: a prospective study

for Chrisa Arcan in:PubMed • Google Scholar Search for Mary Smyth in:PubMed • Google Scholar Search for Bonnie Holy Rock in:PubMed • Google Scholar Search for Mary Story in:PubMed • Google Scholar ... Rock and Mary Story contributed equally to this work. Authors’ original submitted files for images Below are the links to the authors’ original submitted files for images. Authors’ original file

Substance use and dietary practices among students attending alternative high schools: results from a pilot study

0 Mary Story 0 0 University of Minnesota, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of, Public Health , 1300 South 2nd Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454 , USA 1 University of

Substance use and dietary practices among students attending alternative high schools: results from a pilot study

• Google Scholar Search for Jayne A Fulkerson in:PubMed • Google Scholar Search for Peter J Hannan in:PubMed • Google Scholar Search for Mary Story in:PubMed • Google Scholar Corresponding author

Familial correlates of adolescent girls' physical activity, television use, dietary intake, weight, and body composition

Background The family environment offers several opportunities through which to improve adolescents' weight and weight-related behaviors. This study aims to examine the cross-sectional relationships between multiple factors in the family environment and physical activity (PA), television use (TV), soft drink intake, fruit and vegetable (FV) intake, body mass index (BMI), and body...

Familial correlates of adolescent girls

• Google Scholar Search for Peter J Hannan in:PubMed • Google Scholar Search for Mary Story in:PubMed • Google Scholar Corresponding author Correspondence to Katherine W Bauer. Additional information

The relative influence of demographic, individual, social, and environmental factors on physical activity among boys and girls

Carrie D Patnode 0 Leslie A Lytle Darin J Erickson John R Sirard Daheia Barr-Anderson Mary Story 0 Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Northwest , 3800 N. Interstate Avenue, Portland, OR, 97227

The relative influence of demographic, individual, social, and environmental factors on physical activity among boys and girls

This study aimed to evaluate the associations of selected demographic, individual, social, and environmental factors with moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in a sample of children and adolescents. MVPA was assessed among youth (n = 294) 10-17-years-old using the ActiGraph accelerometer. Youth completed measures of demographic and individual variables related to...