Current Trends in Childhood Obesity Research

Frerichs, Leah; Perin, Douglas M. Puricelli; Huang, Terry T.‐K.

doi:10.1007/s13668-012-0025-z

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“…The concerted research consortium CIAO is expected to contribute significantly to the understanding of these key-elements. This comprehensive study is in line with a recommendation from a recent review study to identify trends and gaps in the field of childhood obesity research done, namely the need for 'more solution-oriented research that combines individual, environmental, and policy strategies to address the problem comprehensively’ [60]. Collaborating in a research consortium in which researchers gather complementary evidence provides evidence that supports the 'whole’ picture rather than parts of it.…”

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confidence: 74%

Design of CIAO, a research program to support the development of an integrated approach to prevent overweight and obesity in the Netherlands

Koperen¹,

Kleij

Renders³

et al. 2014

BMC Obes

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BackgroundThe aim of this paper is to describe the research aims, concepts and methods of the research Consortium Integrated Approach of Overweight (CIAO). CIAO is a concerted action of five Academic Collaborative Centres, local collaborations between academic institutions, regional public health services, local authorities and other relevant sectors in the Netherlands. Prior research revealed lacunas in knowledge of and skills related to five elements of the integrated approach of overweight prevention in children (based upon the French EPODE approach), namely political support, parental education, implementation, social marketing and evaluation. CIAO aims to gain theoretical and practical insight of these elements through five sub-studies and to develop, based on these data, a framework for monitoring and evaluation.Methods/DesignFor this research program, mixed methods are used in all the five sub-studies. First, problem specification through literature research and consultation of stakeholders, experts, health promotion specialists, parents and policy makers will be carried out. Based on this information, models, theoretical frameworks and practical instruments will be developed, tested and evaluated in the communities that implement the integrated approach to prevent overweight in children. Knowledge obtained from these studies and insights from experts and stakeholders will be combined to create an evaluation framework to evaluate the integrated approach at central, local and individual levels that will be applicable to daily practice.DiscussionThis innovative research program stimulates sub-studies to collaborate with local stakeholders and to share and integrate their knowledge, methodology and results. Therefore, the output of this program (both knowledge and practical tools) will be matched and form building blocks of a blueprint for a local evidence- and practice-based integrated approach towards prevention of overweight in children. The output will then support various communities to further optimize the implementation and subsequently the effects of this approach.

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confidence: 74%

Design of CIAO, a research program to support the development of an integrated approach to prevent overweight and obesity in the Netherlands

Koperen¹,

Kleij

Renders³

et al. 2014

BMC Obes

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“…In total there are 62 predictor variables across the different contexts which are of interest to examine in terms of their relationship with weight status. This multi-contextual source design is consistent with recent research paradigms for obesity which view it as impacted by not only individual behaviors but also social and physical contexts [Frerichs, Perin and Huang (2012)]. …”

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Variable selection and prediction with incomplete high-dimensional data

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We propose a Multiple Imputation Random Lasso (mirl) method to select important variables and to predict the outcome for an epidemiological study of Eating and Activity in Teens. In this study 80% of individuals have at least one variable missing. Therefore, using variable selection methods developed for complete data after listwise deletion substantially reduces prediction power. Recent work on prediction models in the presence of incomplete data cannot adequately account for large numbers of variables with arbitrary missing patterns. We propose MIRL to combine penalized regression techniques with multiple imputation and stability selection. Extensive simulation studies are conducted to compare MIRL with several alternatives. MIRL outperforms other methods in high-dimensional scenarios in terms of both reduced prediction error and improved variable selection performance, and it has greater advantage when the correlation among variables is high and missing proportion is high. MIRL is shown to have improved performance when comparing with other applicable methods when applied to the study of Eating and Activity in Teens for the boys and girls separately, and to a subgroup of low social economic status (ses) Asian boys who are at high risk of developing obesity.

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“…In recent years, research on childhood obesity has increasingly focused on transdisciplinary approaches [ 10 ], and ecological models with environmental correlates [ 11 ], as individually-focused prevention and treatment efforts promoting activity and dietary behavioral change have been difficult to sustain and have had relatively little population-level impact [ 12 , 13 ]. In public health, the built environment has been conceptualized to contain environmental domains—physical, legal, policy, social and cultural—that influence health-related behaviors [ 14 – 16 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

Physical Activity Design Guidelines for School Architecture

Brittin

Sorensen²,

Trowbridge

et al. 2015

PLoS ONE

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Increasing children’s physical activity at school is a national focus in the U.S. to address childhood obesity. While research has demonstrated associations between aspects of school environments and students’ physical activity, the literature currently lacks a synthesis of evidence to serve as a practical, spatially-organized resource for school designers and decision-makers, as well as to point to pertinent research opportunities. This paper describes the development of a new practical tool: Physical Activity Design Guidelines for School Architecture. Its aims are to provide architects and designers, as well as school planners, educators, and public health professionals, with strategies for making K-12 school environments conducive to healthy physical activity, and to engage scientists in transdisciplinary perspectives toward improved knowledge of the school environment’s impact. We used a qualitative review process to develop evidence-based and theory-driven school design guidelines that promote increased physical activity among students. The design guidelines include specific strategies in 10 school design domains. Implementation of the guidelines is expected to enable students to adopt healthier physical activity behaviors. The tool bridges a translational gap between research and environmental design practice, and may contribute to setting new industry and education standards.

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Current Trends in Childhood Obesity Research

Cited by 10 publications

References 104 publications

Design of CIAO, a research program to support the development of an integrated approach to prevent overweight and obesity in the Netherlands

Design of CIAO, a research program to support the development of an integrated approach to prevent overweight and obesity in the Netherlands

Variable selection and prediction with incomplete high-dimensional data

Physical Activity Design Guidelines for School Architecture

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