MINORITY PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

少数族裔博士前奖学金计划

• 批准号: 7208073
• 负责人: MELISSA SCHAROUN-LEE
• 金额: $ 2.88万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-04-01 至 2008-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7208073
• 关键词: African American; Asian Americans; Hispanic Americans; adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; body physical activity; computer simulation; health disparity; health services research tag; human data; lifestyle; longitudinal human study; obesity; parents; predoctoral investigator; racial /ethnic difference; socioeconomics; statistics /biometry; young adult human (21-34)

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Inequality of health attributed to race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) continues to be a problem in the U.S. population, especially as manifested in racial/ethnic differences in the prevalence, morbidity and mortality from obesity and nutrition-related diseases. As gaps in health continue to widen, it is imperative to identify the determinants of the differential distribution of these diseases across race/ethnic groups. This proposed work will examine the impact of SES on longitudinal patterns of inactivity and obesity, with the primary goal of determining how these longitudinal relationships vary by race/ethnicity across the transition from adolescence to adulthood, a period during which major race/ethnic differences in obesity become apparent, and when adult lifestyle behaviors are solidified. The life course perspective will inform descriptive and multivariate modeling analyses of the relative influence of parental vs. young adult SES factors on young adult inactivity patterns as well as dynamic shifts in those patterns using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Ultimately, structural equation modeling will be used to follow the pathway from SES and race/ethnicity to inactivity and finally to obesity over the transition to adulthood.

描述（由申请人提供）：由于种族/民族和社会经济地位（SES）造成的健康不平等仍然是美国人口中的一个问题，特别是在肥胖和营养导致的患病率、发病率和死亡率方面存在种族/民族差异相关疾病。随着健康差距不断扩大，必须确定这些疾病在种族/族裔群体中差异分布的决定因素。这项拟议的工作将研究社会经济地位对缺乏活动和肥胖的纵向模式的影响，主要目标是确定从青春期到成年的过渡期间，这些纵向关系如何因种族/民族而变化，在此期间，主要种族/民族差异当成年人的生活方式行为固化时，肥胖就会变得明显。生命历程的视角将利用国家青少年健康纵向研究的数据，为父母与年轻人 SES 因素对年轻人不活动模式的相对影响以及这些模式的动态变化进行描述性和多变量建模分析。最终，结构方程模型将用于追踪从社会经济地位和种族/民族到不活动，最后到成年过渡到肥胖的路径。