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Open AccessObesity prevention practices in early care and education settings: an adaptive implementation trial
Despite the potential for Early Care and Education (ECE) settings to promote healthy habits, a gap exists between current practices and evidence-based practices (EBPs) for obesity prevention in childhood.
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Adherence to index-based dietary patterns in childhood and BMI trajectory during the transition to adolescence: the EPOCH study
In the United States, one in five adolescents are obese. Index-based dietary patterns are measures of the overall diet that have the potential to serve as valuable obesity risk stratification tools. However, l...
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Open AccessStakeholder selected strategies for obesity prevention in childcare: results from a small-scale cluster randomized hybrid type III trial
Together, We Inspire Smart Eating (WISE) is an intervention for the early care and education setting to support children’s exposure to and intake of fruits and vegetables. WISE emphasizes 4 evidence-based prac...
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Open AccessA mixed-methods protocol for identifying successful sustainability strategies for nutrition and physical activity interventions in childcare
Despite the importance of sustainability for nutrition and physical activity in public health interventions, limited studies have explored the factors that promote and inhibit evidence-based program sustainmen...
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Workplace Bullying in the Nursing Profession
Nursing is one of the professions with the highest rates of workplace bullying. Since most people access healthcare services at some point in their life, and there is evidence that workplace bullying negativel...
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Differences in Diet Quality and Snack Intakes Among Non-Hispanic White and Mexican American Adolescents from Different Acculturation Groups
Mexican American adolescents have an increased risk for obesity compared to non-Hispanic whites (NHWs), especially as their degree of acculturation increases. Snack intakes can impact diet quality and may affe...
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Open AccessDe-implementation of detrimental feeding practices: a pilot protocol
Early childhood educators (ECEs) often use detrimental feeding practices and are slow to implement positive feeding practices. Nevertheless, few studies have aimed to understand and change ECEs’ feeding practi...
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Open AccessA longitudinal intervention to improve young children’s liking and consumption of new foods: findings from the Colorado LEAP study
Many interventions have been conducted to improve young children’s liking and consumption of new foods however their impacts on children’s consumption have been limited. Consistent evidence supports the use of...
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Open AccessAbout feeding children: factor structure and internal reliability of a survey to assess mealtime strategies and beliefs of early childhood education teachers
Children spend a substantial amount of time in early care and education (ECE) settings and may eat a majority of their diet in this setting. While there are several instruments focused on measuring factors of ...
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Beliefs About Child TV Viewing in Low-Income Mexican American Parents of Preschoolers: Development of the Beliefs About Child TV Viewing Scale (B-TV)
Objectives Parental beliefs about child television viewing may affect the way parents regulate child television viewing. Despite this, little research has focused on the development of measures of parental belief...
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Open AccessStability in the feeding practices and styles of low-income mothers: questionnaire and observational analyses
During the last two decades, researchers have devoted considerable attention to the role of maternal feeding behaviors, practices, and styles in the development of obesity in young children. Little is known, h...
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Workplace Bullying in the Nursing Profession
Nursing is one of the professions with the highest rates of workplace bullying. Since most people access healthcare services at some point in their life, and there is evidence that workplace bullying negativel...
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Open AccessA mixed methods protocol for develo** and testing implementation strategies for evidence-based obesity prevention in childcare: a cluster randomized hybrid type III trial
Despite the potential to reach at-risk children in childcare, there is a significant gap between current practices and evidence-based obesity prevention in this setting. There are few investigations of the imp...
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Are Family Routines Modifiable Determinants of Preschool Children’s Eating, Dietary Intake, and Growth? A Review of Intervention Studies
Children’s eating behaviors are critical determinants of their dietary intake and, hence, childhood growth. Nutritional interventions among families with young children are focused on parents as agents of chan...
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Strategies Low-Income Parents Use to Overcome Their Children’s Food Refusal
Introduction Parents play a key role in the development of eating habits in preschool children, as they are the food “gatekeepers.” Repeated exposure to new foods can improve child food p...
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Pharmacokinetics and Tolerability of Exenatide Delivered by 7-Day Continuous Subcutaneous Infusion in Healthy Volunteers
Small peptides are approved as treatments for type 2 diabetes mellitus and may have utility in metabolic diseases. These peptides often have short half-lives requiring delivery either as a sustained-release fo...
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Open AccessFeeding practices of low-income mothers: how do they compare to current recommendations?
Despite a growing consensus on the feeding practices associated with healthy eating patterns, few observational studies of maternal feeding practices with young children have been conducted, especially in low-...
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Relationships Between Feeding Problems, Behavioral Characteristics and Nutritional Quality in Children with ASD
Many children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have co-occurring feeding problems. However, there is limited knowledge about how these feeding habits are related to other behavioral characteristics ubiqiti...
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Open AccessThe Colorado LEAP study: rationale and design of a study to assess the short term longitudinal effectiveness of a preschool nutrition and physical activity program
The preschool years are a critical window for obesity prevention efforts; representing a time when children establish healthy eating habits and physical activity patterns. Understanding the context in which th...
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Open AccessAssessing food appeal and desire to eat: the effects of portion size & energy density
Visual presentation of food provides considerable information such as its potential for palatability and availability, both of which can impact eating behavior.
