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Direct linkTokarek, Nathan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Children and adolescents spend the majority of their day engaged in sedentary behaviors (SB), while also not meeting physical activity (PA) recommendations. The failure to develop and maintain health enhancing behaviors from a young age may impact an individual throughout their life. With children and adolescents spending a large proportion of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Children, Adolescents, Physical Activity Level
Download full textNational Institute of Food and Agriculture, 2023
The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) is the nation's first federal nutrition education program for low-income populations. Without question, accelerating equity in programming has long been a priority of EFNEP. Historically underserved populations with limited financial resources are often people of color and at increased risk…
Descriptors: Nutrition Instruction, Foods Instruction, Nutrition, Food
National Institute of Food and Agriculture, 2019
The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) is the nation's first nutrition education program and remains at the forefront of educational efforts to reduce nutrition insecurity of low-income families and youth today. Funded by the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), EFNEP supports program participants' efforts…
Descriptors: Nutrition Instruction, Foods Instruction, Nutrition, Food
JaKa, Meghan M.; French, Simone A.; Wolfson, Julian; Jeffery, Robert W.; Lorencatto, Fabianna; Michie, Susan; Levy, Rona L.; Langer, Shelby L.; Sherwood, Nancy E. – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Background: Behavioral interventions to prevent pediatric obesity have shown inconsistent results across the field. Studying what happens within the "black box" of these interventions and how differences in implementation lead to different outcomes will help researchers develop more effective interventions. Aim: To compare the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Obesity, Parent Child Relationship, Prevention
Jones, Marla M.; Carnes, Michael C.; Adams, Thomas; Bryant, Lance G.; Church, Brian; Stillwell, Jimmy L. – Journal of School Health, 2018
BACKGROUND: Obesity in children and adolescents has become one of the most critical public health problems in the United States. Schools may play an important role in raising awareness and possibly slowing the obesity epidemic. METHODS: The purpose of this study was to gather information on parents' perception and use of body mass index (BMI)…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Physical Education Teachers, Obesity, Consciousness Raising
Gachupin, Francine C.; Morehouse, Laura; Bergier, Nicole; Thomson, Cynthia – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2019
Healthy 2B Me aims to educate and empower underserved children ages seven to 11 years old to improve their health and well-being through a supportive, educational and entertaining public health-themed summer day camp. Qualitative data collected through camper exit slips, final posters/presentations, and parent surveys were analyzed to identify…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Day Camp Programs, Children, Preadolescents
Faulkner, Guy; Solomon, Vaeda; Berry, Tanya; Deshpande, Sameer; Latimer-Cheung, Amy E.; Rhodes, Ryan; Spence, John; Tremblay, Mark S. – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2014
Background: Parental support plays an important role in facilitating the participation of children in physical activity. However, there is evidence that parents overestimate their child's level of physical activity -- this may lead to inaction in promotion attempts by parents. This potential disconnect between parental perceptions and reality was…
Descriptors: Parents, Parent Attitudes, Children, Physical Activities
Bassett-Gunter, Rebecca; Rhodes, Ryan; Sweet, Shane; Tristani, Lauren; Soltani, Yasaman – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2017
Purpose: Parents play an important role in supporting children's physical activity (PA) behavior. Parent PA support is a behavior unto itself that has been examined within the framework of an adapted theory of planned behavior (TPB). The primary purpose of this research was to identify key barriers to parent PA support to understand perceptions of…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Barriers, Parent Role, Physical Activity Level
Chung, Alicia – ProQuest LLC, 2013
African-American youth experience disproportionate rates of childhood obesity compared to their White counterparts. Culturally tailored electronic media solutions hold the potential to overcome health literacy and health communication barriers. This study aimed to identify the impact of exposure to a new website portal…
Descriptors: African Americans, Youth, Obesity, Child Health
Peer reviewedPrupas, Andrea; Reid, Greg – Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 2001
A study found the stereotypic behaviors of four children with developmental disabilities reduced by 51.6 percent in a single frequency treatment consisting of one daily ten minute walk/jog session, however, the behaviors reduced 58.9 percent following a multiple frequency conditions that involved three ten minute walk/jog session per day.…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Children
O'Dea, Jennifer A. – Health Education, 2005
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review current programmes and major issues surrounding preventive interventions for body image and obesity in schools. Design/methodology/approach: A literature review was carried out by analysing papers cited in major literature databases from the last 50 years. This review describes and summarises…
Descriptors: Obesity, Comprehensive School Health Education, Health Promotion, Self Esteem
Wallace, Lorraine Silver – American Journal of Health Education, 2003
This study retrospectively examined physical activity patterns across three specific age periods (childhood, teenage, and young adulthood) in a cross sectional sample of young Caucasian undergraduate women (N = 44). All women (mean age = 22.27 plus or minus 3.14 years) completed questionnaire packets assessing transtheoretical model of behavior…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Females, Physical Activity Level, Behavior Change
