Progress 02/01/11 to 01/31/18
Outputs
Target Audience:The target audiences for the intervention progect were low-income Hispanic and African American families in Washington State and Houston, TX. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Several of the research staff members that workedon this project at both site locations, Houston, TX and Pullman, WA were also attending undegraduate or graduate programs. The project offered training opportunities to these staff members under the supervision and mentorship of the study researachers, Sheryl O. Hughes, PhD, Thomas G. Power, PhD, and Louise Parker, PhD. Staff members obtained or are completing degrees in prevention science, human development, counseling psychology, dietetics, public health, and education. Training activities complemented the degree programs of the staff members. Specifically, activities included completing dissertations for doctoral programs by examining various contructs as part of the project. Additionally, staff members were trained on facilitating and leading the 7-lesson sessions, including discussions and educational activities regarding promotion of healthy food preferences and eating self-regulation with preschool children and their families, as well as theories of adult education. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Dissemination has proceeded in two ways. First, weselected specificmaterialssuccessful to the program (e.g., manuals, curriculum, accompanying videos, successful parent and child activities, etc.) to include in the Baylor College of Medicine website. Second, members of the WSU Extension teamare in the process ofpromoting the program to nutrition educators, acrossstate and region. The extension team plans to promote the program nationally through established Extension networks for EFNEP, SNAP-Ed and the Children Youth and Families at Risk programs. Dr. Parker,through her role on the national SNAP-Ed Program Development Team,is promoting the program through the professional development system for educators. Investigators and extension team members have already presented information on the prevention program at various national and international conferences as outlined below. WSU Extension's long-term intent is to create a dissemination model with options for both face-to- face and distance training, and to include a field-based evaluation protocol that can be used by any partners who adopt the program. A related goal is to develop an ongoing learning community among implementers (facilitated by technology) to insure fidelity to the tested model and monitoring of program impacts across states and communities. Results of this study have been presented at the following scientific conferences and meetings, and lectures: 1. Hughes SO, Power TG, Johnson SL, Goodell LS, Parker S, Beck AE. Development of a family focused child obesity prevention program. Presentation at the Society of Nutrition Education and Behavior, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 25-28, 2015. 2. Hughes SO, Power TG, Micheli N, Papaioannou MA, Johnson SL, Goodel LS, Parker L, Beck A. Development of a family focused child obesity prevention program. Presentation at the Society of Nutrition Education and Behavior, San Diego, California, July 30-August 2, 2016. 3. Hughes SO, Power TG, Johnson SL, Parker L, Lanigan J, Beck A, Betz D, Martinez A. Development of a family focused child obesity prevention program for preschoolers. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, Washington, DC, May 30-June 2, 2017. 4. Hughes, SO, Power, TG, Johnson, SL, Parker, L, Lanigan, J, Beck, A, Betz, D, Martinez, A. Preventing Childhood Obesity through a Family Based Program--SEEDS. Presentation at the annual meeting of the International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, Victoria, Canada, June 7-10, 2017. 5. Hughes SO, Power TG, Johnson SL, Parker L, Lanigan J, Beck A, Betz D, Martinez A, Micheli N, Papaioannou M. Preliminary results from a childhood obesity family-based prevention program. Presentation at the annual conference of the National Council of Family Relations, Orlando, Florida, November 15-18, 2017. 6. Parker L. Exploring parental feeding styles and food media as contributors to childhood obesity: preliminary data from two family interventions in the U.S. Public lecture at the University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia, November 20, 2017. 7. Lanigan J, Hughes SO, Power TG, Parker L. Establishing healthy weight trajectories in early childhood. Symposium presentation at the National Research Conference on Early Childhood, Washington DC, June 25-27, 2018. 8. Lanigan J, Hughes SO, Power TG, Parker L, Beck A, Johnson S. SEEDS preschool eating curriculum development and evaluation poster presentation at the National Research Conference on Early Childhood, Washington DC, June 25-27, 2018. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The efficacy of the prevention program is supported by preliminary data. Pre- to post-assessment showed that parents in the prevention program used more responsive feeding practices, provided more meal structure by serving appropriate portion sizes, promoted novel foods, and encouraged exploration more than control parents. Regarding the child outcomes of eating self-regulation, no differences were found from pre- to post-assessment between prevention and control participants. Further analyses arecurrently being conducted to include all follow-up data. Portions of thisprogram are currently beingused in combination with the Eating Smart • Being Active curriculum of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP). One of the goals of the Eating Smart • Being Active EFNEP program is to addportions of theSEEDS parent feeding content and the videos created in the SEEDS project to the Eating Smart • Being Active curriculum. The objective is to further increase the impact of the Eating Smart • Being Active curriculum by teaching parents responsive feeding resulting in healthier child eating behaviors and food intake.
Publications
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Hughes SO, Power TG, Beck A, Betz D, Calodich S, Goodell LS, Hill LG, Hill R, Jaramillo JA, Johnson SL, Lanigan J, Lawrence A, Martinez AD, Nesbitt M, Overath I, Parker L, Ullrich-French S. Strategies for Effective Eating Development-SEEDS: Design of an Obesity Prevention Program to Promote Healthy Food Preferences and Eating Self-Regulation in Children From Low-Income Families. J Nutr Educ Behav. 2016 Jun;48(6):405-418.e1.
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Progress 02/01/11 to 01/31/12
Outputs
OUTPUTS: Goals for first two years of this project included 1) completing the detailed observational coding and analysis of 425 videotapes of mother-child interactions during the dinner meal, 2) conducting focus groups to gain additional insight into the factors that impact parental feeding decisions at mealtime and their influence on childrens self-regulation of energy intake, and 3) to develop parent, child, and family sessions to be used in the intervention. To date, we have completed coding of 240 videotapes and inter-rater reliability has been established. Coding of the remaining 185 videotapes is ongoing and will be completed by July, 2013. Extensive training for focus group staff was completed during the first year. Eight focus group discussions with 98 low-income mothers (4 with Latina mothers; 4 with Black mothers) were completed in Houston, TX, and Tacoma and Yakima, WA. Themes included Determining Fullness (for parent and child), Portion Sizes (what is the right amount to serve), Mealtime Distractions, Choice versus Rules, Accepting Foods, and Behavior Change. Information from the focus groups was used to inform the development of seven parent sessions to be used in the intervention. These seven sessions are as follows: Introduction, Picky Eating (how do children develop preferences; i.e. how do children decide what they want to eat), Internal Cues (how do children develop self-regulation; i.e. how do they decide when theyve had enough to eat), Structure of the Environment, Structure of the Meal, Portion Sizes, and Responsive Feeding. Extensive curriculum has been developed for each of the seven sessions. The corresponding child sessions are under development as well as the family sessions (parent and child will together focus on what they learned in their individual sessions). The intervention will be piloted in Year 3. The pilot will involve two 7-week sessions conducted at each site. Houston will have two "sites" (one Black and one Latina); WSU will have two sites (Tacoma and Yakima). At each site, the program will be implemented by a trained parent educator and a trained early childhood specialist from the local community. These professionals will be of the same ethnicity as the program assistants and extensively trained by the project staff in the intervention before the initiation of any programs. Six to ten parents will be recruited for each session through either Head Start or Extensions low-income nutrition programs. PARTICIPANTS: Susan L. Johnson at the University of Colorado Denver Thomas G. Power at Washington State University Louise Parker at Washington State University Jane Lanigan at Washington State University Laura Hill at Washington State University Drew Betz at Washington State University Sarah Ullrich-French at Washington State University Irene Overath at Washington State University Shirley Broughton at Washington State University Suzie Goodell at North Carolina State University TARGET AUDIENCES: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.
Impacts
None at this time.
Publications
- Power TG, Hughes SO, Goodell LS, Johnson SL, Duran JAJ, Williams K, Eaton AD, Frankel LA. (2013). Mother-child interactions at dinner: a descriptive study of low-income African American and Latino mothers. (under review)
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