Browsing by Author "Davison, Kirsten"
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Accelerated Weight Gain Among Children During Summer Versus School Year and Related Racial/Ethnic Disparities: A Systematic Review
Franckle, Rebecca; Adler, Rachel; Davison, Kirsten (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014)Introduction: The objective of this study was to compile and summarize research examining variations in weight gain among students during the summer in comparison to the school year, with a focus on racial/ethnic disparities ... -
Adolescents who engage exclusively in healthy weight control behaviors: Who are they?
Lampard, Amy M.; Maclehose, Richard F.; Eisenberg, Marla E.; Larson, Nicole I.; Davison, Kirsten K.; Neumark-Sztainer, Dianne (BioMed Central, 2016)Background: Little is known about the exclusive adoption of healthy weight control behaviors in the absence of unhealthy weight control behaviors among adolescents. The current study aimed to determine (i) the prevalence ... -
A Cascade of Champions: A Qualitative Study about the MA-CORD Media Competition Implementation
Criss, Shaniece; Tran, Alvin; Ganter, Claudia; Aftosmes-Tobio, Alyssa; Gortmaker, Steven; Viswanath, Kasisomayajula; Kwass, Jo-Ann; Davison, Kirsten K. (MDPI, 2016)A media competition was part of the Massachusetts Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration (MA-CORD) Study. Criss et al., previously outlined the development and implementation of the competition, including variation in ... -
Community Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Barriers to Childhood Obesity Prevention in Low-Income Families, Massachusetts 2012–2013
Ganter, Claudia; Chuang, Emmeline; Aftosmes-Tobio, Alyssa; Blaine, Rachel E.; Giannetti, Mary; Land, Thomas; Davison, Kirsten K. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015)Introduction: The etiology of childhood obesity is multidimensional and includes individual, familial, organizational, and societal factors. Policymakers and researchers are promoting social–ecological approaches to obesity ... -
Creating Healthy Nutrition Environments
Khandpur, Neha (2016-05-03)The home nutrition environment and the consumer nutrition environment present two important settings for addressing the high prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adults. They provide the broader context ... -
Family functioning and quality of parent-adolescent relationship: cross-sectional associations with adolescent weight-related behaviors and weight status
Haines, Jess; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L.; Horton, Nicholas J.; Kleinman, Ken; Bauer, Katherine W.; Davison, Kirsten K.; Walton, Kathryn; Austin, S. Bryn; Field, Alison E.; Gillman, Matthew W. (BioMed Central, 2016)Background: Little is known about how factors within the general family environment are associated with weight and related behaviors among adolescents/young adults. Methods: We studied 3768 females and 2614 males, 14–24 ... -
Healthy Foods, Healthy Families: combining incentives and exposure interventions at urban farmers’ markets to improve nutrition among recipients of US federal food assistance
Bowling, April B.; Moretti, Mikayla; Ringelheim, Kayla; Tran, Alvin; Davison, Kirsten (Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, 2016)Background: Healthy Foods, Healthy Families (HFHF) is a fruit and vegetable (F&V) exposure/incentive program implemented at farmers’ markets in low-income neighborhoods, targeting families receiving US federal food assistance. ... -
“I Just Try to Keep Her Quiet and Happy” The Role of Caregiver Feeding Practices in Early Childhood Obesity Prevention
Blaine, Rachel E. (2015-05-01)Children’s diet is a key driver of childhood obesity, and thus understanding the role of caregivers in mediating the frequency and content of foods offered to children is critical to developing population-based interventions ... -
Identifying Sources of Children’s Consumption of Junk Food in Boston After-School Programs, April–May 2011
Kenney, Erica L.; Austin, S. Bryn; Cradock, Angie L.; Giles, Catherine M.; Lee, Rebekka M.; Davison, Kirsten K.; Gortmaker, Steven L. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014)Introduction: Little is known about how the nutrition environment in after-school settings may affect children’s dietary intake. We measured the nutritional quality of after-school snacks provided by programs participating ... -
Media, Health Communication, and the Cancer Risk Factors of Smoking and Obesity
Criss, Shaniece (2015-04-27)Introduction: Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, and obesity is the second cause. Both are risk factors for various types of cancer. Specifically, smoking is linked to lung, esophageal, ... -
Parenting around child snacking: development of a theoretically-guided, empirically informed conceptual model
Davison, Kirsten K.; Blake, Christine E.; Blaine, Rachel E.; Younginer, Nicholas A.; Orloski, Alexandria; Hamtil, Heather A.; Ganter, Claudia; Bruton, Yasmeen P.; Vaughn, Amber E; Fisher, Jennifer O. (BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Snacking contributes to excessive energy intakes in children. Yet factors shaping child snacking are virtually unstudied. This study examines food parenting practices specific to child snacking among low-income ... -
Reasons Low-Income Parents Offer Snacks to Children: How Feeding Rationale Influences Snack Frequency and Adherence to Dietary Recommendations
Blaine, Rachel E.; Fisher, Jennifer Orlet; Taveras, Elsie M.; Geller, Alan C.; Rimm, Eric B.; Land, Thomas; Perkins, Meghan; Davison, Kirsten K. (MDPI, 2015)Although American children snack more than ever before, the parental role in promoting snacking is not well understood. In 2012–2013 at baseline in an intervention study to prevent childhood obesity in low-income Massachusetts ... -
A systematic review of media parenting in the context of childhood obesity research
Aftosmes-Tobio, Alyssa; Ganter, Claudia; Gicevic, Selma; Newlan, Sami; Simon, Christine L.; Davison, Kirsten K.; Manganello, Jennifer A. (BioMed Central, 2016)Background: We conducted a systematic review to obtain studies on childhood obesity and parenting published between 2009 and 2015, and draw out those studies with a particular focus on media parenting. Our analysis addresses ... -
Understanding Effects of Exercise and Diet to Improve Mental and Physical Health in Children With Behavioral Health Disorders
Bowling, April B. (2017-01-10)Approximately 13%–20% of children living in the United States experience a diagnosable behavioral health disorder (BHD) in a given year. Children with BHDs have elevated risk of poor mental and physical health outcomes. ... -
Using School Staff Members to Implement a Childhood Obesity Prevention Intervention in Low-Income School Districts: the Massachusetts Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration (MA-CORD Project), 2012–2014
Blaine, Rachel E.; Franckle, Rebecca L.; Ganter, Claudia; Falbe, Jennifer; Giles, Catherine; Criss, Shaniece; Kwass, Jo-Ann; Land, Thomas; Gortmaker, Steven L.; Chuang, Emmeline; Davison, Kirsten K. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017)Introduction: Although evidence-based interventions to prevent childhood obesity in school settings exist, few studies have identified factors that enhance school districts’ capacity to undertake such efforts. We describe ...