Disparities in the Relationship Between the School Nutrition Environment and Childhood Obesity

学校营养环境与儿童肥胖关系的差异

• 批准号: 9921489
• 负责人: Lauren E Au
• 金额: $ 1.7万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF CALIF/DIV/AGRICULTURE/NAT/RESOUR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-05-02 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9921489
• 关键词: 15 year old; Address; Affect; Age; Applications Grants; Area; Behavior; Behavioral; Child; Child Health; Child Nutrition; Communities; Country; Data; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Diet; Dietary Intervention; Dietary intake; Disadvantaged; Environment; Ethnic Origin; Evaluation; Funding; Goals; Guidelines; Health; Hyperlipidemia; Income; Intervention; Knowledge; Low income; Measures; Mentored Research Scientist Development Award; Minority; Nature; Nutritional; Obesity; Obesity Epidemic; Outcome; Overweight; Parents; Pattern; Policies; Preparation; Prevalence; Public Health; Public Health Practice; Race; Reading; Research; Sampling; Schools; Series; Socioeconomic Factors; Statistical Methods; Testing; Time; Training; Training Programs; United States National Institutes of Health; Vulnerable Populations; Weight; Weight Gain; apprenticeship; base; career; comorbidity; design; disparity reduction; effective intervention; elementary school; ethnic minority population; experience; health disparity; healthy weight; improved; innovation; junior high school; meetings; minority student; nutrition; nutrition education; obesity in children; obesity prevention; obesity risk; prevent; programs; public health relevance; racial minority; skills; socioeconomics; success; trend

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The prevalence of childhood obesity has tripled over the last three decades, and ethnic minority and low- income children are disproportionally affected. Improving the school nutrition environment has the potential to reach disadvantaged children, yet little is known about the impact of the school nutrition environment on preventing obesity and reducing disparities. Understanding the relationship of the school nutrition environment to child obesity is important for addressing ways to improve dietary behaviors that are likely to prevent obesity and obesity-related co-morbidities such as hyperlipidemia and diabetes. I am pursuing a K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award to fill critical training gaps in the areas of school nutrition, health disparities, and longitudinal statistical methods. My career goal is to develop, implement, evaluate, and disseminate school-based nutrition interventions to promote nutritional health and reduce the risk of obesity within vulnerable populations. My detailed training plan includes formal coursework at UCSF and UC Berkeley, meetings, seminars, readings, and research apprenticeships. Through the proposed series of studies, I will determine which school nutrition programs and policies are associated with overweight and obesity and examine how disparities in access might underlie obesity patterns within the NIH-funded (NHLBI-led) Healthy Communities Study. My primary hypothesis is that higher intensity efforts to improve school nutrition environments, defined by duration, reach, and behavioral strategy, will have healthier weight children compared to lower intensity school nutrition environments, and this will differ by income and race/ethnicity. In preparation fo submitting an R01 grant application to test this hypothesis, I will first identify trends in the intensity of school nutrition programs and policies over a 10-year period in a national evaluation of elementary and middle schools in diverse communities. Second, I will examine the associations between the current school nutrition environment and children's weight status by income and race/ethnicity. Finally, I will determine whether the combination of a supportive school nutrition environment and school nutrition education is associated with improved weight status. These findings will be innovative because it will be the first critical step in identifying which school nutrition programs and policies are most effective for obesity prevention across a diverse set of socioeconomic factors to better inform public health practice. The proposed training plan and series of studies will provide me with a set of skills and expertise needed to successfully compete for R01 funding and to serve as a leader in the field of school-based interventions to prevent childhood obesity and reduce health disparities.

 描述（通过应用程序）：在过去的三十年中，儿童的患病率已经脱颖而出儿童肥胖，以提高可能预测的行为和相关的轨道，例如高脂血症和糖尿病正在开发，评估，散布和传播一些IntervuationNntite Nutritite Nutrith，并在UCSF和UC Berkele，研讨会和研究顾问中降低弱势群体中的肥胖症。检查肥胖模式的差异是如何在NIH资助的（NHLBI-LED）健康社区研究的基础上。营养环境l因收入和种族/种族而有所不同。种族将确定tirtive的营养环境是否有所改善。 哪些学校的营养计划是整个跨各种经济因素的MOS肥胖，totter为拟议的培训计划和一系列技能研究提供了信息，并获得了成功或R01资金的专家生产，镇压和减少健康差异。