Publications by authors named "K Loth"
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- * It tracked 554 participants from the LEAP study, who reported their shape and weight importance in adolescence and their body image during pregnancy and postpartum 20 years later.
- * Results showed that greater emphasis on shape and weight in adolescence is linked to poorer body image during pregnancy and postpartum, suggesting the need for early prevention efforts and support for body image issues during the perinatal period.
Objective: In cross-sectional and retrospective research, parental binge eating is associated with their children's eating psychopathology. The current study extended the evidence by cross-sectionally and longitudinally examining the relation between parental binge eating and binge eating and weight-control behaviors in the next generation of their adolescent children and young adult children in a population-based sample.
Methods: Adolescents (Time 1: M = 14.
Background: Weight-related self-monitoring (WRSM) apps are used by millions, but the effects of their use remain unclear. This study examined longitudinal relationships between WRSM and disordered eating among a population-based sample of emerging adults.
Methods: Participants (n = 138) were recruited from EAT 2010-2018 (Eating and Activity over Time study) to participate in a mixed-methods (quantitative and qualitative) longitudinal study to understand the impacts of WRSM.
Academic practices and departments are defined by a tripartite mission of care, education, and research, conceived as being mutually reinforcing. But in practice, academic faculty have often experienced these 3 missions as competing rather than complementary priorities. This siloed approach has interfered with innovation as a learning health system in which the tripartite missions reinforce each other in practical ways.
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- Research indicates that acculturation and food insecurity affect food parenting practices in US families, impacting children's health, particularly related to disordered eating.
- The study involved 577 families from diverse backgrounds, such as Latinx and Hmong, to examine how different acculturation strategies relate to parenting styles around food.
- Findings reveal significant correlations between acculturation strategies and food parenting practices that vary by ethnicity, with food security playing a key role for certain groups but not for Multiracial families.