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| David DzewaltowskiSummaryAffiliation: Kansas State University Country: USA Publications
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Model of the home food environment pertaining to childhood obesityRichard R Rosenkranz
Community Health Institute and Department of Kinesiology at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
Nutr Rev 66:123-40. 2008..The present review includes selected literature relevant to the home food environment's influence on obesity with the aim of presenting an ecologically informed model for future research and intervention in the home food environment...
A group-randomized controlled trial for health promotion in Girl Scouts: healthier troops in a SNAP (Scouting Nutrition & Activity Program)Richard R Rosenkranz
Department of Human Nutrition, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
BMC Public Health 10:81. 2010..This study evaluated the effectiveness of an intervention program delivered through Girl Scout Junior troops that was designed to foster healthful troop meeting environments and increase obesity prevention behaviors at home...
Behavior change intervention research in community settings: how generalizable are the results?David A Dzewaltowski
Community Health Institute, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Health Promot Int 19:235-45. 2004....- The future of physical activity behavior change research: what is needed to improve translation of research into health promotion practice?David A Dzewaltowski
Community Health Institute, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Exerc Sport Sci Rev 32:57-63. 2004..The Reach, Efficacy/Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework provides a useful way of organizing and reporting these factors... - RE-AIM: evidence-based standards and a Web resource to improve translation of research into practiceDavid A Dzewaltowski
K State Research and Extension, Community Health Institute, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Ann Behav Med 28:75-80. 2004..Operating with similar conditions and resources, it is unlikely that evidence-based behavioral medicine (EBBM) practices will be more successfully implemented... - Healthy youth places: a randomized controlled trial to determine the effectiveness of facilitating adult and youth leaders to promote physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption in middle schoolsDavid A Dzewaltowski
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
Health Educ Behav 36:583-600. 2009..Proxy efficacy to influence school PA environments mediated the program effects. Building the skills and efficacy of adults and youth to lead school environmental change may be an effective method to promote youth PA... - HOP'N after-school project: an obesity prevention randomized controlled trialDavid A Dzewaltowski
Department of Kinesiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 7:90. 2010..abstract:.. - Disparities in obesity prevalence due to variation in the retail food environment: three testable hypothesesPaula B Ford
Department of Human Nutrition, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Nutr Rev 66:216-28. 2008.... - Longitudinal and cross-sectional influences on youth fruit and vegetable consumptionKarly S Geller
Department of Human Nutrition and Community Health Institute, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
Nutr Rev 67:65-76. 2009..Furthermore, this review illuminates several methodological issues, offering suggestions to strengthen comparisons between studies. Research designs that incorporate longitudinal, cross-sectional, and time-lag data are warranted... - Measuring children's self-efficacy and proxy efficacy related to fruit and vegetable consumptionKarly S Geller
Department of Human Nutrition and Community Health Institute, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
J Sch Health 79:51-7. 2009..The purpose of this study was to develop a scale assessing children's self-efficacy and proxy efficacy for FVC at after-school programs and at home... - Mother-daughter resemblance in BMI and obesity-related behaviorsRichard R Rosenkranz
Department of Human Nutrition, Youth Health Behavior Research Lab, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
Int J Adolesc Med Health 22:477-89. 2010..This study sought to determine the association between mother-daughter resemblance in body mass index (BMI) and obesity-related behaviors and whether connectedness moderated those associations... - Physical activity programming in family child care homes: providers' perceptions of practices and barriersBronwyn Fees
Kansas State University, Manhattan, 66506, USA
J Nutr Educ Behav 41:268-73. 2009..To examine family child care home (FCCH) providers' perceptions of appropriate physical activity (PA), current practices, and perceived barriers to inclusion of PA within their programs... - Reporting of validity from school health promotion studies published in 12 leading journals, 1996-2000Paul Estabrooks
Dept of Kinesiology, and Office of Community Health, Kansas State University, 8 Natatorium, OCH, KSU, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
J Sch Health 73:21-8. 2003..To increase the potential to translate controlled research to "real-world" practice conditions, a stronger emphasis should be placed on reporting the representativeness of the sample of students and schools... - Measurement of self-efficacy and proxy efficacy for middle school youth physical activityDavid A Dzewaltowski
Community Health Institute, Kansas State University, USA
J Sport Exerc Psychol 29:310-32. 2007..From sixth through seventh grade, changes in SEPA scales were associated with changes in PA. Studies should test whether interventions targeting self-efficacy and proxy efficacy influence PA... - Physical activity promotion through primary carePaul A Estabrooks
Community Health Institute and Department of Kinesiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA
JAMA 289:2913-6. 2003 - Effect of elimination games on physical activity and psychosocial responses in childrenKarla E Foster
Dept of Kinesiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
J Phys Act Health 7:475-83. 2010..This study evaluated the effect of elimination and nonelimination games on objectively measured physical activity and psychosocial responses in children... - Comparing the relationships between different types of self-efficacy and physical activity in youthGregory J Ryan
Department of Kinesiology and Research Extension Office of Community Health, Kansas State University, Manhattan 66506, USA
Health Educ Behav 29:491-504. 2002..This suggests that strengthening young persons' belief in their ability to find and create environments that support physical activity might promote increases in their physical activity... - Review of external validity reporting in childhood obesity prevention researchLisa M Klesges
Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105 2794, USA
Am J Prev Med 34:216-23. 2008..To demonstrate this potential, recent reports of childhood obesity prevention interventions were evaluated on the extent to which external validity dimensions were reported... - Results of the first year of active for life: translation of 2 evidence-based physical activity programs for older adults into community settingsSara Wilcox
Department of Exercise Science, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Am J Public Health 96:1201-9. 2006..We evaluated the effects of 2 evidence-based physical activity interventions on self-reported physical activity and related outcomes in midlife and older adults... - Toward a better understanding of the influences on physical activity: the role of determinants, correlates, causal variables, mediators, moderators, and confoundersAdrian E Bauman
School of Community Medicine and Public Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Am J Prev Med 23:5-14. 2002..This article examines the factors that are correlated with and that may have a causal relationship to physical activity... - Beginning with the application in mind: designing and planning health behavior change interventions to enhance disseminationLisa M Klesges
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
Ann Behav Med 29:66-75. 2005..older adults, adults, children, and adolescents). Further, possible discrepancies between site populations of varying health statuses are discussed, and an ecological framework is proposed for use in future investigations on retention... - Prevention of the epidemic increase in child risk of overweight in low-income schools: the El Paso coordinated approach to child healthKaren J Coleman
Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92116, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:217-24. 2005..To assess the impact on children's health of translating an evidence-based national intervention trial (Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health [CATCH]) to low-income elementary schools with primarily Hispanic students... - Healthy youth places promoting nutrition and physical activityDavid A Dzewaltowski
Health Educ Res 17:541-51. 2002..The Project develops a place-based dissemination model of multiple levels (project, school and place) that are hypothesized to build the skills and efficacy of leaders (school staff and youth) that implement environmental changes... - The relationships between delivery agents' physical activity level and the likelihood of implementing a physical activity programPaul Estabrooks
Clinical Research Unit, Kaiser Permnnanente Colorado, Denver, Colorado 80237 8066, USA
Am J Health Promot 18:350-3. 2004..To determine the relationships between delivery agents'physical activity characteristics and subsequent adoption of a physical activity promotion program for community implementation... - The future of health behavior change research: what is needed to improve translation of research into health promotion practice?Russell E Glasgow
Kaiser Permanente Colorado and AMC Cancer Research Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
Ann Behav Med 27:3-12. 2004..It is well documented that the results of most behavioral and health promotion studies have not been translated into practice... - Evaluating the impact of health promotion programs: using the RE-AIM framework to form summary measures for decision making involving complex issuesRussell E Glasgow
Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Clinical Research Unit, 335 Road Runner Lane Penrose, Denver, CO 81240, USA
Health Educ Res 21:688-94. 2006..Such approaches offer potential to help identify interventions most likely to meaningfully impact population health... - Response from the Behavior Change Consortium Representatives and Translation Work Group: the issue is one of impact, not of world view or preferred approachRussell E Glasgow
Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Denver 80237, USA
Health Educ Res 17:696-9. 2002 - TREND: an important step, but not enoughDavid A Dzewaltowski
Am J Public Health 94:1474; author reply 1474-5. 2004 - Comparison of the computerized ACTIVITYGRAM instrument and the previous day physical activity recall for assessing physical activity in childrenGregory J Welk
Department of Health and Human Performance, Iowa State University, Ames 50011, USA
Res Q Exerc Sport 75:370-80. 2004..The study also revealed no differences in PDPAR values or associations, when a simpler scoring procedure was used instead of the traditional more complex metabolic equivalent-based approach... - Are we creating relevant behavioral medicine research? Show me the evidence!Lisa M Klesges
Ann Behav Med 31:3-4. 2006 - Behavior change intervention research in healthcare settings: a review of recent reports with emphasis on external validityRussell E Glasgow
AMC Cancer Research Center, Center for Behavioral and Community Studies, Denver, Colorado 80214, USA
Am J Prev Med 23:62-9. 2002..This paper reviews the extent to which this research has reported on elements of internal and external validity, with emphasis on the extent to which research has been conducted in representative settings with representative populations...
Research Grants
- YOUTH ENVIRONMENTS PROMOTING NUTRITION AND ACTIVITYDavid Dzewaltowski; Fiscal Year: 2002..The impact of the program on hypothesized personal, environmental, and behavioral determinants of F&V and PA will also be measured. Process evaluation will monitor environmental change, program implementation, and system changes. ..