Nigg Lab

Summary:

Research Interests:
• Theories of behavior change
• Motivation to engage in health behaviors
• Exercise/physical activity
• Multiple health behavior change
• Childhood obesity
• Youth
• Aging
• General Population

Affiliations:

• Department of Public Health Sciences, John A. Burns School of Medicine

People:

• PI: Nigg, Claudio, Ph.D.
  

Resources:

Human Studies

• Fun 5 – a physical activity and nutrition program expansion and evaluation ( Interventional study )
  

  This project motivated children to become more active using SPARK AR plus a nutrition intervention and disseminated Fun 5 across elementary after school programs in Hawaii. It is now being continued by a community 501C3 see www.kahoomiki.org.

• Intervention for Physical Activity in Youth - IPLAY ( Interventional study )
  

  This project examines the effects of a physical change to the built environment (playground redesign) in combination with a curriculum intervention on elementary school children’s obesity related behaviors.

• Physical activity in women with infants – the Namikimiki Project ( Interventional study )
  

  The primary objective of the study is to increase physical activity in healthy, postpartum women (3-12 months postpartum).

• State Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF SIG) Epidemiology ( Epidemiological study )
  

  Provide epidemiological lead to the HI SPF-SIG project relating to statewide adolescent alcohol prevention.

• Testing the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change ( Epidemiological study )
  

  This project looks at the mechanisms of behavior change via a longitudinal multi-ethnic cohort using the Transtheoretical Model.

Services

• Individualized intervention training service ( Training service )
  

  The lab's PI provides training for individualized intervention (e.g. population-based interventions.)

• Measurement of health behavior training ( Training service )
  

  The PI has expertise in measurement of health behavior (e.g. stress behavior, drinking behavior, physical activity, smoking behavior), measurement development (e.g. benefit of physical activity), and is certified in SOFIT.

• Motivational interviewing training service ( Training service )
  

  Training in motivational interviewing can be provided by the lab's PI (e.g. one-to-one behavioral change counseling)

Web Links:

• http://www.hawaii.edu/publichealth/faculty/profile/nigg.html