Pacific Kids DASH for Health (PacDASH)

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Resource Type

Properties

1. Intervention

   Lifestyle intervention

2. Additional Topic(s)

   Healthy lifestyle

3. Additional Topic(s)

   Obesity

4. Additional Topic(s)

   Physical activity

5. Resource Description

   Childhood offers an opportunity to develop and support health-promoting behaviors. Pacific Kids DASH for Health (PacDASH) is an intervention that targets child food and physical activity (PA) behaviors and utilizes support from the physician and health care system.Targeted food behavioral messages will extend and apply the nationally recommended DASH eating pattern, originally developed for White, African American, and Hispanic adults, to children and to the growing population of Asians and Pacific Islanders. Use of culturally-preferred foods and recipes will also be incorporated. Targeted PA behaviors will encourage national PA guidelines. Social and environmental cues important to making healthy food and physical activity choices, will guide development of the intervention to support steps to behavior change. Further assessments conducted at study visits include: demographics, diet and PA assessment, body size and composition measures, and blood pressure. Our study population of interest includes children ages 5 – 8, who are overweight and obese (>85th – 98th BMI percentile for age) and are scheduled for a ‘well-child’ visit at the Kaiser Permanente(KP) Clinics. We plan to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of this 15-month tailored intervention initially as a brief pilot study and then as a full intervention. Funded by the United States Department of Agriculture, National Research Initiative-Human Nutrition and Obesity competitive grants program.

6. Contact

   Novotny, Rachel, Ph.D.

7. PI

   Novotny, Rachel, Ph.D.

8. Topic

   nutrition disease

9. Topic

   obesity

10. Study Population

    Our study population of interest includes children ages 5 – 8 (total: 360), who are overweight and obese (>85th – 98th BMI percentile for age) and are scheduled for a ‘well-child’ visit at the Kaiser Permanente(KP) Clinics.

11. Website(s)

    http://nap.hawaii.edu/projects/PacDASH.html

12. Funded by

    U.S. Department of Agriculture

13. Performed by

    Novotny Lab