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| ISOBEL RUTH CONTENTOSummaryAffiliation: Columbia University Country: USA Publications
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Review and analysis of evaluation measures used in nutrition education intervention researchIsobel R Contento
Program in Nutrition, Department of Health and Behavior Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University, 525W 120th St, New York, NY 10027, USA
J Nutr Educ Behav 34:2-25. 2002..We will then be better able to make judgments about the effectiveness of nutrition education...- Understanding the food choice process of adolescents in the context of family and friendsIsobel R Contento
Department of Health and Behavior Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
J Adolesc Health 38:575-82. 2006..To understand from the adolescents' own perspective the decision-making processes they use to make food choices on an everyday basis and how they resolve their need for personal control over food choices with the values of family and peers... - Nutrition education: linking research, theory, and practiceIsobel R Contento
Program in Nutrition, Department of Health and Behavior Studies, Teachers College Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
Asia Pac J Clin Nutr 17:176-9. 2008..These are evaluated through the use of appropriate designs and instruments. Nutrition education programs that link research, theory, and practice are more likely to be effective... - Enhancing personal agency and competence in eating and moving: formative evaluation of a middle school curriculum--Choice, Control, and ChangeIsobel R Contento
Department of Health and Behavior Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
J Nutr Educ Behav 39:S179-86. 2007..A strategy based on fostering personal agency, cognitive self-regulation, and competence can be effective in increasing healthful eating and physical activity behaviors in middle school children and should be explored further... 
Adolescents demonstrate improvement in obesity risk behaviors after completion of choice, control & change, a curriculum addressing personal agency and autonomous motivationIsobel R Contento
Program in Nutrition, Department of Health and Behavior Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 110:1830-9. 2010..The rapid increase of obesity and diabetes risk beginning in youth, particularly those from disadvantaged communities, calls for prevention efforts...- Body image, weight, and food choices of Latina women and their young childrenIsobel R Contento
Department of Health and Behavior Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
J Nutr Educ Behav 35:236-48. 2003..To investigate body image perceptions of women about themselves and their young children and their relationship to their food choices and those of their children... - Fat avoidance and replacement behaviors predict low-fat intake among urban African American adolescentsJennifer Di Noia
School of Social Work, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
Nutr Res 28:358-63. 2008..Dietary interventions to lower fat intake among urban African American adolescents should promote the adoption of these behaviors... - Computer-mediated intervention tailored on transtheoretical model stages and processes of change increases fruit and vegetable consumption among urban African-American adolescentsJennifer Di Noia
Columbia University School of Social Work, New York, NY 10027, USA
Am J Health Promot 22:336-41. 2008..To examine the efficacy of an intervention based on the transtheoretical model (TTM) for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption among economically disadvantaged African-American adolescents... - Dietary energy density and diet variety as predictors of outcome in anorexia nervosaJanet E Schebendach
Eating Disorders Research Unit, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 87:810-6. 2008..Maintenance of a healthy diet is central to the recovery process, but the relation between diet and relapse has not been investigated in AN patients... - Dietary fat intake among urban, African American adolescentsJennifer Di Noia
Columbia University School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA
Eat Behav 9:251-6. 2008..Urban, African American adolescents can benefit from intervention to lower their fat intake. Programs that target and address the food preferences and eating habits of this population are clearly needed... - Criterion validity and user acceptability of a CD-ROM-mediated food record for measuring fruit and vegetable consumption among black adolescentsJennifer Di Noia
Columbia University School of Social Work, New York, NY 10027, USA
Public Health Nutr 12:3-11. 2009..To determine the criterion validity and user acceptability of the Healthy Eating Self-Monitoring Tool (HEST), a CD-ROM-mediated food record for measuring fruit and vegetable consumption among economically disadvantaged black adolescents... - Criterion validity of the Healthy Eating Self-monitoring Tool (HEST) for black adolescentsJennifer Di Noia
Columbia University School of Social Work, New York, NY 10027, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 107:321-4. 2007..With further development and validation, the HEST can be used to measure fruit and vegetable consumption among economically disadvantaged black adolescents... - Application of the transtheoretical model to fruit and vegetable consumption among economically disadvantaged African-American adolescents: preliminary findingsJennifer Di Noia
Columbia University School of Social Work, New York, New York 10027, USA
Am J Health Promot 20:342-8. 2006..To examine the application of the transtheoretical model (TTM) to fruit and vegetable consumption among economically disadvantaged African-American adolescents... - Relationship of cognitive restraint of eating and disinhibition to the quality of food choices of Latina women and their young childrenIsobel R Contento
Department of Health and Behavior Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
Prev Med 40:326-36. 2005..The purpose of this study was to examine the association of these constructs with quality of food choices for women and for their young children... - Dietary patterns of reservation and non-reservation Native American youthsJennifer Di Noia
School of Social Work, Columbia University, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA
Ethn Dis 15:705-12. 2005..To bridge this gap, this study measured the eating patterns of Native American youths in the northeastern United States... - A media literacy nutrition education curriculum for head start parents about the effects of television advertising on their children's food requestsToby J Hindin
Department of Heath and Behavior Studies Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 104:192-8. 2004..To evaluate whether a media literacy nutrition education curriculum about the effects of television advertising on children's food choices influenced the behavior, attitudes, and knowledge of Head Start parents...
Research Grants
- CURRICULUM LINKING SCIENCE EDUCATION AND HEALTH LITERACYIsobel Contento; Fiscal Year: 1999..Results of the evaluation will be used to revise the program for dissemination. ..
- Choice, Control and Change: An inquiry-based science educationIsobel Contento; Fiscal Year: 2007..A leader teacher model will be used to institutionalize C3 to help assure that schools continue to implement C3 after SEPA funding. ..