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）：归因于种族/种族和社会经济地位（SES）的健康不平等在美国人口中仍然是一个问题，尤其是在肥胖和与营养相关疾病的流行，发病率和死亡率的种族/民族差异中表现出来。随着健康差距继续扩大，必须确定这些疾病在种族/族裔群体中的差异分布的决定因素。这项拟议的工作将研究SES对无活动和肥胖的纵向模式的影响，其主要目的是确定这些纵向关系在整个从青春期到成年期的过渡过程中如何变化，在这个时期，肥胖症的主要种族/民族差异在这一时期变得显而易见，以及成年人的生活方式时的行为是固定的。生活课程的观点将为父母与年轻人SES因素对年轻成人不活动模式的相对影响的描述性和多元建模分析提供信息，并使用国家对青少年健康的纵向研究中的数据进行了这些模式的动态变化。最终，结构方程建模将用于遵循从SES和种族/种族到无活动的途径，最后是肥胖，一直到肥胖。