Measuring Children's Activity in its Social Context(RMI)

衡量儿童在社会背景下的活动（RMI）

• 批准号: 6890785
• 负责人: Sandra L Hofferth
• 金额: $ 11.14万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-24 至 2006-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6890785
• 关键词: behavioral /social science; behavioral /social science research tag; bioenergetics; body physical activity; child behavior; clinical research; data collection methodology /evaluation; developmental nutrition; ethnic group; exercise; experimental designs; human subject; interdisciplinary collaboration; measurement; middle childhood (6-11); nutrition; nutrition related tag; obesity; physiology; preschool child (1-5); public health; social behavior; technology /technique development

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Childhood obesity has become a major public health concern. One of the key gaps in understanding childhood obesity is the lack of an accurate assessment of the intensity of children's physical activities in their social context. Although extensive work along these lines has been conducted for adults, little has been conducted for children. In large-scale surveys, social and behavioral scientists collect information on children's participation in socially meaningful categories. But these measures do not capture the intensity of physical activity involved. Exercise physiologists and obesity researchers have developed self-report measures of the type, duration, and intensity of children's physical activity; however, they do not collect information on the social context. The specific aim of this proposed project is to convene a network of scientists conducting research from multiple perspectives, that of social and behavioral science, exercise physiology, and public health and nutrition, to study children's activities. This network would focus upon children of ages not typically studied, those 3-5, as well as those 6-12, and would consider children of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The objectives address the four areas of research design, measurement, data collection techniques, and analytic methods. Our specific aims are: 1) To evaluate the current state of measurement and data collection on physical activity and associated societally meaningful categories of activity, 2) To evaluate how to link the social and behavioral scientific approaches to physical activity and the physiological approaches to determining activity levels and energy expenditures, and 3) To conduct pilot testing to explore how to incorporate such techniques and to determine the cost and effectiveness of recommended methods/equipment for large-scale studies.

描述（由申请人提供）： 儿童肥胖已成为主要的公共卫生问题。理解儿童肥胖症的关键差距之一是缺乏对儿童在社会背景下的身体活动强度的准确评估。尽管已经针对成年人进行了大量工作，但几乎没有为儿童进行。在大规模的调查中，社会和行为科学家收集了有关儿童参与社会意义类别的信息。但是这些措施并未捕获涉及的体育活动的强度。运动生理学家和肥胖研究人员已经制定了关于儿童体育锻炼类型，持续时间和强度的自我报告措施。但是，他们没有收集有关社会环境的信息。该拟议项目的具体目的是召集一个科学家网络，从多个角度进行研究，社会和行为科学，运动生理学以及公共卫生和营养的研究，以研究儿童的活动。该网络将集中于通常不研究的年龄的孩子，这些3-5以及6-12岁的孩子，并将考虑不同种族背景的孩子。这些目标解决了研究设计，测量，数据收集技术和分析方法的四个领域。我们的具体目的是：1）评估有关体育活动和相关社会有意义的活动类别的当前测量和数据收集的状态，2）评估如何将社会和行为科学方法与身体活动的社会和行为科学方法联系起来，以及确定活动水平和能量水平的生理方法，以及如何进行诸如促进和有效的研究/有效的研究，以探索较大的研究和有效的研究。