Publications by authors named "Margaret K Wilkin"
Objective: Describe how a multiyear, mixed-methods evaluation informed the evolution of a healthy eating and physical activity social marketing campaign.
Design: Focus groups, A/B survey to test messages and images, telephone interviews (2019) with local programmers, and an annual outcome survey.
Setting: Statewide through multiple channels: billboards, transit signs, social media, website, and program resources like banners and posters.
Objective: To categorize and quantify how states planned to use policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change strategies in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education (SNAP-Ed).
Methods: Qualitative content analysis of SNAP-Ed annual plans from all 50 states, District of Columbia, Guam, and the US Virgin Islands between fiscal years 2014 and 2016.
Results: Between 2014 and 2016, the percentage of states that included PSEs as a statewide goal increased from 25% to 47%, and the percentage that planned to implement at least 1 PSE increased from 56% to 98%.
Objective: To describe Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) site-level breastfeeding support practices and associations with breastfeeding outcomes.
Design: Secondary analysis of WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study-2, including data from interviews with caregivers of infants and interviews and surveys with staff from 27 WIC state agencies and 80 study sites.
Participants: A total of 1,235 mothers of breastfed infants participating in the WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study-2.
Objective: Determine the impact of Cooking Matters for Adults (CM) on food resource management (FRM) skills and self-confidence 6 months after course completion.
Design: Quasi-experimental design with nonequivalent comparison group and 6-month follow-up.
Setting: Cooking Matters for Adults programs in CA, CO, ME, MA, MI, and OR.
Background And Objectives: Little is known about the magnitude of multiple chronic conditions (MCC) in children. This study describes the prevalence of and patterns of comorbidities in children receiving Medicaid assistance.
Methods: Diagnoses from 5 years of Medicaid claims data were reviewed and identified 128,044 children with chronic conditions.
Objective: To examine the impact of Allies Against Asthma, community-based coalitions working to improve asthma outcomes, on vulnerable children: those with the most urgent health care use and those of youngest age.
Methods: Allies zip codes were matched with comparison communities on demographic factors. Five years of Medicaid data (n = 26,836) for significant health care events: hospitalizations, ED and urgent care facility visits, were analyzed.
Diet and lifestyle factors, body size, and smoking behavior may influence estrogen metabolism, but the nature of these relations may vary according to race/ethnic groups. We evaluated the association of lifestyle factors with estrogen metabolites 2-hydroxyestrone (2-OHE1) and 16alpha-hydroxyestrone (16alpha-OHE1) in a racially diverse population. With a cross-sectional study design, urine samples from 1881 African-American, Caucasian, Chinese, Japanese, and Hispanic women, aged 42-52 y, from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) were assayed by EIA for 2-OHE1 and 16alpha-OHE1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSarcopenia is related to physical functioning and leg strength in middle-aged women.
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci
April 2005
Background: In the aging process, loss of muscle is relatively continuous, but the initiation, timing, and amount of muscle loss that relate to functional compromise are poorly described. Also poorly understood is whether strength and functioning in aging are related to the amount of lean mass and its change as well as to the amount of fat mass and its change.
Methods: The purpose of the study was to ascertain whether 3-year lean and fat mass change predicted functional status in 712 African American and Caucasian women, aged 34-58 years.