Publications by authors named "J T Hinnant"
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- The study focused on how school gardens and nutrition education affect fruit and vegetable consumption among third graders in low-income communities in Alabama.
- Students from 99 different schools participated in a trial comparing those with gardens and nutrition education to a control group, revealing that both gardens and educational initiatives led to increased dietary improvements.
- The findings suggest that enhancing student health through accessible gardening and nutrition education can be key to fostering better diets, especially in underserved areas, highlighting the need for collaboration among various support programs.
Guided by developmental models examining the legacy of childhood caregiving environments, we examined the longitudinal pattern of associations between harsh parenting and children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms across late childhood to late adolescence. Participants included 199 youth (48.7% female, 65.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStudy Objectives: We examined growth trajectories of four actigraphy-derived sleep parameters (sleep minutes, sleep efficiency, and variability in sleep minutes and efficiency across a week of assessments) across childhood and adolescence and examined individual differences in trajectories according to participants' race/ethnicity and sex. We also assessed the predictive effect of growth trajectories of sleep parameters on growth trajectories of mental health outcomes and moderation by race and sex.
Method: Youth (N = 199, 49% female, 65% white, 32% black, 3% biracial) and their parents participated in five waves of data (M ages were 9, 10, 11, 17, and 18 across waves).
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- The study investigates how sleep affects physical health in adolescents, focusing on the role of family income as a moderator in these relationships.
- Data was collected from 323 adolescents wearing actigraphs to track sleep patterns and parents reported on family income and their child's physical health.
- Results revealed that for low-income youth, poor sleep quality negatively impacted their physical health, while higher-income youth generally had better health, regardless of sleep quality.
Anxiety and depressive symptoms are common and highly interrelated. A relatively consistent temporal pattern of anxious and depressive symptoms has emerged from previous studies, such that the development of anxiety tends to precede and predict the development of depression rather than the other way around. Whether high levels of childhood anxiety predict depressive symptoms in late adolescence may depend, in part, on the ways in which children cope with stressful events.
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