Integrating a family-focused approach into child obesity prevention: Rationale and design for the My Parenting SOS study randomized control trial

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>More than 20% of US children ages 2-5 yrs are classified as overweight or obese. Parents greatly influence the behaviors their children adopt, including those which impact weight (e.g., diet and physical activity). Unfortunately, parents often fail to recognize the risk for excess weight gain in young children, and may not be motivated to modify behavior. Research is needed to explore intervention strategies that engage families with young children and motivate parents to adopt behaviors that will foster healthy weight development.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>This study tests the efficacy of the 35-week My Parenting SOS intervention. The intervention consists of 12 sessions: initial sessions focus on general parenting skills (stress management, effective parenting styles, child behavior management, coparenting, and time management) and later sessions apply these skills to promote healthier eating and physical activity habits. The primary outcome is change in child percent body fat. Secondary measures assess parent and child dietary intake (three 24-hr recalls) and physical activity (accelerometry), general parenting style and practices, nutrition- and activity-related parenting practices, and parent motivation to adopt healthier practices.</p> <p>Discussion</p> <p>Testing of these new approaches contributes to our understanding of how general and weight-specific parenting practices influence child weight, and whether or not they can be changed to promote healthy weight trajectories.</p> <p>Trial Registration</p> <p>ClinicalTrials.gov: <a href="http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00998348">NCT00998348</a></p

Literary Journalism and World War I: Marginal Voices

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Edited by Christian Ulrik Andersen and Geoff CoxThis issue of APRJA examines the implications of datafication for research. Following a research workshop at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong in October 2014, it addresses the thematic framework of the 2015 transmediale festival “Capture All” as a research topic: “to investigate and propose actions that push against the limits of today’s pervasive quantification of life, work and play”, as the call explains. Indeed, to what extent does data “capture all” – even research? We produce, share, collect, archive, use and misuse, knowingly or not, massive amounts of data, but what does its “capture” do to us? What are the inter-subjective relations between data-commodity and human subjects? In asking these questions, the articles in this journal seek insights into the logics of data flows between materials, things, data, code, software, interfaces and other stuff that permeates the cultures of datafication

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Literary Journalism across the Globe Journalistic Traditions and Transnational Influences

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Toward a Theory of International Literary Journalism -- Chapter 1. Literary Reportage: The "Other" Literary Journalism -- Chapter 2. Reportage in the U.K.: A Hidden Genre? -- Chapter 3. The Edge of Canadian Literary Journalism: The West Coast's Restless Search for Meaning versus Central Canada's Chronicles of the Rich and Powerful -- Chapter 4. The Counter-Coriolis Effect: Contemporary Literary Journalism in a Shrinking World -- Chapter 5. The Evolutionary Future of American and International Literary Journalism -- Part II: Jurnalistic Traditions -- Chapter 6. Dutch Literary Journalism: From Pamphlet to Newspaper (ca. 1600-1900) -- Chapter 7. Literary Journalism's Magnetic Pull: Britain's "New" Journalism and the Portuguese at the Fin-de-Siècle -- Chapter 8. Literary Journalism in Spain: Past, Present (and Future?) -- Chapter 9. Social Movements and Chinese Literary Reportage -- Chapter 10. A Century of Nonfiction Solitude: A Survey of Brazilian Literary Journalism -- Chapter 11. Literary Journalism in Twentieth-Century Finland -- Part III: Transnational Influences -- Chapter 12. Riding the Rails with Robin Hyde: Literary Journalism in 1930s New Zealand -- Chapter 13. James Agee's "Continual Awareness," Untold Stories: "Saratoga Springs" and "Havana Cruise" -- Chapter 14. Željko Kozinc, the Subversive Reporter: Literary Journalismin Slovenia -- Chapter 15. Creditable or Reprehensible? The Literary Journalism of Helen Garner -- Chapter 16. Ryszard Kapuściński and the Borders of Documentarism: Toward Exposure without Assumption -- Contributors -- Index -- Back CoverDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries