College Student Weight Gain: Identifying Opportunities for Cancer Prevention

大学生体重增加：寻找预防癌症的机会

• 批准号: 7896783
• 负责人: Melissa Nelson Laska
• 金额: $ 13.2万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7896783
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this K07 application is to build a mentored research and training experience to foster independent professional development in obesity and cancer prevention, specifically focusing on the understudied area of excess weight gain among college youth. This application is submitted from the University of Minnesota (Division of Epidemiology and Community Health), which provides a rich, interdisciplinary environment to build off of ongoing cancer prevention research (e.g., through the Center for Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer) under the mentorship of Drs. Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, Robert Jeffery, and Mary Story. Specifically, I have identified 3 career development goals to be fulfilled: (1) to build skills in epidemiological survey development and in leading/directing data collection efforts, (2) to continue to develop expertise in behavioral epidemiology and epidemiologic analysis, (3) to strengthen my understanding of health behavior theory, building skills that will allow me to effectively link epidemiological work with future intervention research focusing on college obesity and cancer prevention. To achieve these goals, my training will include a variety of activities, including coursework and mentored research. The aims of this award reflect the goals of the NIH Roadmap initiatives, not only in providing training and mentored experience in interdisciplinary research, but also in supporting translational research in a public health arena, setting the foundation for a career that bridges the gap between epidemiology and intervention research. My mentored research plan specifically seeks to identify important modifiable determinants of excess weight gain in college students, by following a large cohort of undergraduate college students through one academic year. Survey responses will also be linked to objective environmental assessments (e.g., measures of the food environment and physical activity resources). Through this research, we have the important opportunity to examine excess weight gain, related health behaviors and their individual, environmental, and social determinants in a large population of college students living on or near the second largest public US university. With the ultimate goal of identifying intervention targets that may serve as the basis for future R01s, this research includes developing environmental and online assessment tools that may be used within a wide range of US college campuses.

描述（由申请人提供）：该K07申请的目的是建立指导的研究和培训经验，以促进肥胖和预防癌症的独立专业发展，特别是专注于大学青年体重增加过度的研究领域。该申请是从明尼苏达大学（流行病学和社区健康部）提交的，该申请提供了一个丰富的跨学科环境，以在Drs的指导下建立在正在进行的预防癌症预防研究（例如，通过跨学科研究中心）建立。 Dianne Neumark-Sztainer，Robert Jeffery和Mary Story。具体而言，我已经确定了要实现的3个职业发展目标：（1）在流行病学调查开发以及领导/指导数据收集工作中建立技能，（2）继续发展行为流行病学和流行病学分析方面的专业知识，（3）以增强我对健康行为理论的理解，从而使我有效地与流行病学研究相关联，并在癌症学上进行了癌症研究，并将其与癌症研究进行了互为范围。为了实现这些目标，我的培训将包括各种活动，包括课程和指导研究。该奖项的目的反映了NIH路线图计划的目标，不仅在提供培训和指导的跨学科研究经验方面，而且还旨在支持公共卫生领域的转化研究，为弥合流行病学和干预研究之间差距的职业奠定了基础。我的指导研究计划专门旨在通过在一个学年中跟随大量的大学生来确定大学生体重增加过剩的重要决定因素。调查反应还将与客观的环境评估（例如，食品环境和体育活动资源的衡量标准）有关。通过这项研究，我们有一个重要的机会，可以检查居住在美国第二大公立大学附近或附近的大量大学生中的体重增加，相关的健康行为及其个人，环境和社会决定因素。为了确定可能是未来R01基础的干预目标的最终目标，该研究包括开发可在美国大学校园内使用的环境和在线评估工具。