This research is interdisciplinary in nature, combining professional expertise from the biomedical and public health disciplines of the Columbia University Faculty of Medicine with the behavioral, social sciences, and educating disciplines of the Center for Health Promotion at Teachers College, Columbia University. The long-term objective of this collaboration is to build a team of investigators to identify the determinants of diet and physical activity behaviors in children that place them at increased risk for coronary heart disease later in life, and to develop guidelines and recommendations that will be useful in planning and implementing health promotion interventions designed to reduce population-wide risk factors.
Specific aims are to: (I) Develop and evaluate a screening instrument to identify families in which children are at risk to developing health-compromising dietary and physical activitiy behaviors; (II) Demonstrate that children's dietary behaviors are influenced by personal, familial, and social factors; (III) Demonstrate that children's physical activity behaviors are influenced by personal, familial, and social factors; (IV) Identify clusters of variables that can be used to formulate indices accounting for the variance in children's dietary and physical activity behaviors over time; (V) Determine the extent to which these behaviors are stable over time; (VI) Estimate the reliability and validity of data collected on these behaviors; (VII) Estimate the reliability of data utilized for testing hypotheses; (VIII) Explore the role of socicultural and temporal factors in dietary and physical activity behaviors; (IX) Investigate why changes in diet and physical activity occur; and (X) Develop guidelines for designing and implementing health promotion intervention programs. The study design calls for repeated measures of the dietary and physical activity behaviors of 200 low-income Hispanic and Black children ages 3-4 years and their families over a three-year period. Data will be collected using biophysical measures, personal interviews, focus groups, direct and videotaped observations, and record review. Descriptive, univariate, and multivariate statistical methods will be used to analyze and identify groups at high risk for health-compromising behaviors, and to determine the extent to which these variables are predictive of behavior and risk at different points in time.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01HL035189-02
Application #
3348849
Study Section
(SRC)
Project Start
1985-09-30
Project End
1990-09-29
Budget Start
1986-09-30
Budget End
1987-09-29
Support Year
2
Fiscal Year
1986
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
Columbia University Teachers College
Department
Type
Schools of Education
DUNS #
071050983
City
New York
State
NY
Country
United States
Zip Code
10027
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Colchico, K; Zybert, P; Basch, C E (2000) Effects of after-school physical activity on fitness, fatness, and cognitive self-perceptions: a pilot study among urban, minority adolescent girls. Am J Public Health 90:977-8
Wechsler, H; Basch, C E; Zybert, P et al. (1998) Promoting the selection of low-fat milk in elementary school cafeterias in an inner-city Latino community: evaluation of an intervention. Am J Public Health 88:427-33
Shea, S; Rabinowitz, D; Stein, A D et al. (1998) Components of variability in the systolic blood pressures of preschool children. Am J Epidemiol 147:240-9
Wechsler, H; Basch, C E; Zybert, P et al. (1995) The availability of low-fat milk in an inner-city Latino community: implications for nutrition education. Am J Public Health 85:1690-2
Basch, C E; Zybert, P; Shea, S (1994) 5-A-DAY: dietary behavior and the fruit and vegetable intake of Latino children. Am J Public Health 84:814-8
Basch, C E; Shea, S; Zybert, P (1994) The reproducibility of data from a Food Frequency Questionnaire among low-income Latina mothers and their children. Am J Public Health 84:861-4
Stein, A D; Shea, S; Basch, C E et al. (1994) Assessing changes in nutrient intakes of preschool children: comparison of 24-hour dietary recall and food frequency methods. Epidemiology 5:109-15
Shea, S; Basch, C E; Gutin, B et al. (1994) The rate of increase in blood pressure in children 5 years of age is related to changes in aerobic fitness and body mass index. Pediatrics 94:465-70

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