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Integrating Food Rx With Best Feeding Practices With EFNEP
The purpose of the pilot study is to test the FFYF feeding curriculum material and procedures for implementation, staff training, recruitment, and data collection.
Baylor Role: Lead Sponsor
Recruiting
Food for Thought: Executive Functioning Around Eating Among Children
Appetite self-regulation (ASR) has been described as involving children's use of eating-specific, "top-down" cognitive processes to moderate "bottom-up" biological drives to eat. Much of the research to date on ASR …
Baylor Role: Collaborator
Recruiting
Nurturing Needs Study: Parenting Food Motivated Children
High levels of food motivation among young children are heritable, track over time, and associated with elevated risks of unhealthy eating and obesity. Despite significant growth of family-based obesity prevention …
Baylor Role: Collaborator
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Efficacy Trial Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids for Hispanic Fathers and Children
Hispanics in the United States face health disparities for obesity and related medical conditions, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Targeting families to promote healthy lifestyle behaviors has been identified …
Baylor Role: Lead Sponsor
Recruiting
Genetic Disorders of Obesity Program Database
Children and adolescents who have suffered from severe weight gain prior to 5 years of age and who are seen in the Genetic Disorders of Obesity Program at Texas Children …
Baylor Role: Lead Sponsor
Recruiting
Causal Mechanisms in Adolescent Arterial Stiffness
Aortic stiffness measured in adolescence or adulthood determines current hypertension, predicts future incidence of hypertension, and future atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) events. International hypertension guidelines list severe aortic stiffness as …
Baylor Role: Lead Sponsor
Completed
Fit 5 Kids Screen Time Reduction Curriculum for Latino Preschoolers
Screen time is a major risk factor for childhood obesity and inadequate physical activity, both of which are determinants of type 2 diabetes (T2D), cardiovascular disease, and multiple cancers. Latinos …
Baylor Role: Collaborator
Completed
Online Videos and New Feeding Content to Enhance a Current EFNEP Program
During Phase I of the project (first two years), the leadership team composed of both research and extension investigators will work with the media production team to edit the SEEDS …
Baylor Role: Lead Sponsor
Completed
Texas Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration (TX CORD) Project
The goal of this project is to develop, implement and evaluate an integrated, systems-oriented obesity model for underserved, ethnically diverse children aged 2-12 years. The first step will include conducting …
Baylor Role: Collaborator
Completed
Texas Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration (TX CORD) Project -Primary Prevention Study
A systems approach emphasizes the linkage between individual behavior change strategies and social and physical environmental changes, which act synergistically to facilitate (or inhibit) healthy eating and active living. We …
Baylor Role: Collaborator