Cultural Influences on Family Mealtime Routines in Mexico: Focus Group Study with Mexican Mothers.

Mexico's obesity rates are alarming, and experts project drastic increases in the next thirty years. There is growing interest in understanding how remote acculturation and globalization processes influence health behaviors. The present study used focus group data from a central state, San Luis Potosí, in Mexico to explore mothers' perspectives on factors that influence family mealtime routines.

How Well Can Family Childcare Providers Report on Preschoolers' Motor Skill Competence?

Background: Assessing children's movement skill competence objectively is resource and time intensive. Family childcare providers (FCCPs) are with young children for most of a normal weekday and may have an understanding of their motor skill competence.

Objective: This study examined how well FCCPs can report on preschoolers' motor skills.

Predictors and Outcomes of Mealtime Emotional Climate in Families With Preschoolers.

Objective: Mealtime emotional climate (MEC) is related to parent feeding and mental health, and possibly to child food consumption. However, MEC has been inconsistently assessed with a variety of coding schemes and self-report instruments, and has not been examined longitudinally. This study aims to characterize MEC systematically using an observational, count-based coding scheme; identify whether parent feeding or mental health predict MEC; and examine whether MEC predicts child food consumption and weight.

Promotoras and the Semantic Gap Between Latino Community Health Researchers and Latino Communities.

Promotoras are identified as a unique group of community health workers adept at reducing health disparities. This qualitative study was conducted to better understand perceptions of the term promotora, broadly used in research but not well documented in everyday Latina vocabulary. Six focus groups to better understand perceptions of the term promotora were conducted with 36 Latina women living in three nonmetropolitan areas in Illinois.

Validation of the SCOFF questionnaire for screening of eating disorders among Mexican university students.

Purpose: To evaluate the criterion validity and diagnostic utility of the SCOFF, a brief eating disorder (ED) screening instrument, in a Mexican sample.

Methods: The study was conducted in two phases in 2012. Phase I involved the administration of self-report measures [the SCOFF and the Eating Disorder Inventory-2, (EDI-2)] to 1057 students aged 17-56 years (M age = 21.

Associations between adult attachment style, emotion regulation, and preschool children's food consumption.

Objective: The goal of this study was to test 3 serial mediation models of how caregiver adult attachment style influences children's food consumption through its influence on emotion regulation. Three mediators that have been shown to increase the risk for pediatric obesity and that are likely to be influenced by negative emotion regulation strategies in everyday family interactions were chosen: (1) caregiver feeding practices (2) family mealtime routines, and (3) child television (TV) viewing.

Method: A total of 497 primary caregivers of 2.

Six-week Latino family prevention pilot program effectively promotes healthy behaviors and reduces obesogenic behaviors.

Objective: To test the effectiveness of a 6-week family-based healthy eating pilot program aimed to reduce obesogenic behaviors among Latino parents and children.

Methods: A 6-week healthy eating pilot program focused on dietary changes within Latino families with a 6- to 13-year-old child. A 1-group, pre-posttest design with 2-month follow-up examining fruit, vegetable, and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption.

Evaluation of the psychometric performance of the SCOFF questionnaire in a Mexican young adult sample.

Objective: To examine the psychometric performance of the SCOFF, a brief screening instrument for eating disorders (ED).

Materials And Methods: Mexican university applicants (n= 3594, 55.7% female, M age= 18.

Is there a difference between center and home care providers' training, perceptions, and practices related to obesity prevention?

To compare the obesity related training, practices, and perceptions of home child care providers and center care providers. A self-administered survey was collected from child care providers who attended local child care training workshops in east central Illinois from March 2009 to August 2010. Study results were based on responses from 88 home care providers and 94 center providers.

Family and individual predictors of physical activity for older Mexican adolescents.

Purpose: Low levels of physical activity (PA) are associated with persistent obesity. Adolescent obesity is linked to adult morbidity and premature mortality. This study examined a model of perceived parental influence in Mexican older adolescents to uncover contemporaneous family and personal predictors of Mexican older adolescents' PA.