Evaluation of the Food Literacy Project's "Nourishing Food Literacy, Community Health and Sense of Place in Louisville, Kentucky" Initiative.

Background And Objectives: Community-based organizations, such as Food Literacy Project, Inc. (FLP), focused on cultivating food justice through increasing access to healthy foods in under-resourced areas are uniquely positioned to positively affect the nutrition landscape. This article reports on an evaluation of FLP's efforts in implementing food justice programming.

Internalizing symptoms and affective vulnerability among heterosexual and sexual minority young adults.

Objectives: Sexual minority young adults report higher rates of anxiety and depression, and affective vulnerability factors (i.e. anxiety sensitivity, distress tolerance, emotion dysregulation) may help explain these mental health disparities.

A Web-Based Intervention for Insufficiently Active College Students: Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy.

Background: One third of college students do not achieve aerobic activity levels recommended for physical and mental health. The web-based "I Can Be Active!" intervention was designed to help college students increase their physical activity. The intervention was grounded in the Multi-Process Action Control (M-PAC) framework which emphasizes translating intention into sustainable action.

Socioecological Analysis of a Nursing Advocacy Skills-Building Activity.

Background: Advocacy is an expectation of the nursing profession. Nursing curricula should include opportunities for advocacy skills building at multiple levels of potential effect. Analyses of student performances during these advocacy exercises provide insight into how well students understand the multifactorial nature of most public health issues.

Use of Electronic Ecological Momentary Assessment Methodologies in Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Sleep Research in Young Adults: Systematic Review.

Background: Recent technological advances allow for the repeated sampling of real-time data in natural settings using electronic ecological momentary assessment (eEMA). These advances are particularly meaningful for investigating physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep in young adults who are in a critical life stage for the development of healthy lifestyle behaviors.

Objective: This study aims to describe the use of eEMA methodologies in physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep research in young adults.

Associations between sleep disturbance, physical activity, and anxiety sensitivity among college students during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The present study sought to examine associations between anxiety sensitivity and both sleep and physical activity among college students, who are particularly vulnerable to sleep disturbance, decreased physical activity, and the development of psychopathology, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were 683 college students ( = 20.33,  = 3.

Affective Response to Exercise and Affective Judgments as Predictors of Physical Activity Intention and Behavior among New Mothers in their first 6-Months Postpartum.

Background: Understanding the predictors of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) during early postpartum is important to improve promotion efforts. Affect-related constructs are key predictors of MVPA but have limited research in mothers during the postpartum period.

Purpose: To examine two affect-related constructs (affective response to exercise and affective judgments) as predictors of MVPA intention and behavior across three months, among a sample of new mothers.

Students' perceptions of a community health advocacy skills building activity: A descriptive analysis.

Background: Skills to promote advocacy, a nursing competency, are vital to today's cohorts of nursing students, who often struggle with discourse. Opportunities to develop, defend, and rebut science-based arguments enhance resilience and self-efficacy when advocating for health policy. A community health discussion activity was developed to enhance advocacy skills in undergraduate and graduate nursing students at a midwestern university.

Application of the IDEAS Framework in Adapting a Web-Based Physical Activity Intervention for Young Adult College Students.

User-centered developmental processes are critical to ensuring acceptability of e-health behavioral interventions, and yet physical activity research continues to be inundated with top-down developmental approaches. The IDEAS (Integrate, Design, Assess, and Share) framework outlines a user-centered process for development of e-health interventions. The purpose of this manuscript is to describe the application of the IDEAS framework in adapting a web-based physical activity intervention for young adult college students.

Testing the Effects of Two Field-to-Fork Programs on the Nutritional Outcomes of Elementary School Students From Diverse and Lower-Income Communities.

The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to evaluate the effects of two farm-to-school programs, specifically the Field-to-Fork Multi-visit Program (  =  264) and the Field-to-Fork After-school Club (  =  56), on nutritional outcomes of elementary school students (third to fifth grade) from urban, diverse, and lower-income communities. Data were collected via self-report surveys measuring: (a) knowledge of recommendations for daily fruit and vegetable intake; (b) fruit and vegetable consumption; (c) knowledge of cooking a healthy recipe using vegetables; and (d) desire for farm fresh foods at school. Statistical analyses included McNemar's and Wilcoxon signed rank tests.

In the eye of the beholder: Body weight misperceptions among African Americans living in Kentucky.

Body weight status misperception, perceiving one's self to be thinner than one's body mass index (BMI), is growing in the United States. At risk for lifestyle-related disease, African Americans face more dire consequences with respect to this misperception than others. In a sample of African American Kentuckians, we found a moderate level of body weight status misperception.

Association between Physical Activity and Sport Participation on Hemoglobin A1c Among Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes.

Purpose: To determine associations between physical activity (PA) and sport participation on HbA1c levels in children with type 1 diabetes (T1D).

Method: Pediatric patients with T1D were invited to complete a PA and sport participation survey. Data were linked to their medical records for demographic characteristics, diabetes treatment and monitoring plans, and HbA1c levels.

Stressors and resilience are associated with well-being in young adult college students.

The purposes were to describe stressors and resilience behaviors of college students and examine the relationships among stressors, resilience, and well-being. Resilience will modify the relationship between stressors and well-being. The sample included 1,010 college students, ages 18-26, from an urban Midwestern university.

Opposing Discourses Surrounding Type 2 Diabetes in Eastern Appalachian Kentucky.

Type 2 diabetes disproportionately affects individuals in Appalachia. This study investigated discourse among friends and family with different diabetes risk levels in Central Appalachia. Eighteen semistructured, in-depth interviews were conducted with Appalachian Kentuckians.

Predictors of Physical Activity in a Predominantly Hispanic Sample of Adolescents.

In the United States, the vast majority of Hispanic high school students do not meet physical activity recommendations. This prospective, observational study tested the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to predict physical activity in a convenience sample of 232 high school students from a predominantly Hispanic, rural-fringe, lower-income community in Southwestern United States. Mindfulness was tested as a moderator of the intention-physical activity relationship.

Correlates of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors Among Overweight Hispanic School-aged Children.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore potential correlates of physical activity and sedentary screen time behaviors among overweight Hispanic school-aged children, ages 7 to 14years.

Design And Methods: We conducted an exploratory correlation analysis using baseline data of 40 child-parent dyads from the "Mind Exercise Nutrition Do It!" program conducted in the Western United States.

Results: Child self-esteem and parental vegetable intake were moderately associated with physical activity, while parental vegetable intake and child fruit intake were strongly associated with physical activity among males.

Bidirectional Relationships Between Fatigue and Everyday Experiences in Persons Living With HIV.

Fatigue symptoms are very common among persons living with HIV (PLWH). Fatigue is related to functional and psychological problems and to treatment nonadherence. Using secondary data from ecological momentary assessment, we examined fatigue as a predictor of PLWH everyday experiences.

Deflecting the trajectory and changing the narrative: how self-affirmation affects academic performance and motivation under identity threat.

To the extent that stereotype and identity threat undermine academic performance, social psychological interventions that lessen threat could buffer threatened students and improve performance. Two studies, each featuring a longitudinal field experiment in a mixed-ethnicity middle school, examined whether a values affirmation writing exercise could attenuate the achievement gap between Latino American and European American students. In Study 1, students completed multiple self-affirmation (or control) activities as part of their regular class assignments.