{"id":8732,"date":"2023-03-16T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T16:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/sherc\/?page_id=8732"},"modified":"2025-08-12T22:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T22:08:48","slug":"ppp-year-3-lopez","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/ppp-year-3-lopez\/","title":{"rendered":"PPP Year 3: Lopez Latino fathers\u2019 stress and their children\u2019s obesity risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pilot Project, Year 3<\/h1>\n

Latino fathers\u2019 stress and their children\u2019s obesity risk<\/h2>\n
Latino children are disproportionately at high risk for childhood obesity, adult obesity and related diseases. Parent-based interventions, typically addressing maternal weight-related parenting practices (e.g., modeling, restricting, monitoring, limiting, and encouraging children\u2019s dietary, physical activity [PA], and sedentary behaviors [SB]), have been largely unsuccessful in preventing increases in children\u2019s adiposity.<\/p>\n
Additionally, there is growing evidence to suggest that levels of psychological stress experienced by mothers may compromise parenting practices concerning their child\u2019s weight, but little research examining how fathers\u2019 stress may contribute to the risk of obesity in children.<\/p>\n
Finally, research has focused on between-person methods, limiting inferences about within-day behavior changes in the same subject. To address these research gaps, the proposed study will use ecological momentary assessment (EMA) methods to examine how within-day variability in Latino fathers\u2019 stress may influence their subsequent parenting practices leading to changes in children\u2019s eating, PA, and SB, and their subsequent obesity risk.<\/p>\n
We will recruit 50 fathers and their 8 to 12-year-old children (50 dyads, 100 participants) to undergo three assessments spaced six months apart consisting of seven days of EMA and salivary cortisol sampling to measure stress, accelerometry to measure PA and SB, two 24-hour food recalls, and height, weight, and waist circumference.<\/p>\n
The primary aims are to examine the within-day, longitudinal, and differential effects of Latino fathers\u2019 stress on their children\u2019s dietary, PA and SB. Results from this study will inform the development of a future child obesity prevention intervention using a just-in-time intervention methodology to address parenting practices.<\/p>\n
Funding:<\/strong> The study is funded by NIMHD\/NIH U54MD012388<\/p>\n
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About the investigators<\/h2>\n
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Nanette Lopez, PhD<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
Principal Investigator<\/strong><\/div>\nAssistant Professor, Department of Health Sciences<\/div>\n
Email:<\/strong> Nanette.Lopez@nau.edu<\/a><\/div>\n
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Lopez NV<\/strong>, Papini NM. Latino Fathers’ Stress and their Children’s Obesity Risk: An Ecological Momentary Study Rationale and Protocol. Accepted as poster presentation International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2022 (May 18-21, Phoenix, AZ.)<\/p>\n
Peart JR, Lorts C, Lopez NV<\/strong>. Recruiting and Retaining Latino Parents in Child Weight-Related Studies: A Systematic Review. Accepted as poster presentation International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2022 (May 18-21, Phoenix, AZ.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Pilot Project, Year 3 Latino fathers\u2019 stress and their children\u2019s obesity risk Latino children are disproportionately at high risk for childhood obesity, adult obesity and related diseases. Parent-based interventions, typically addressing maternal weight-related parenting practices (e.g., modeling, restricting, monitoring, limiting, and encouraging children\u2019s dietary, physical activity [PA], and sedentary behaviors [SB]), have been largely unsuccessful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":286,"featured_media":8735,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ring_central_script_selection":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8732","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8791,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8732\/revisions\/8791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}