Mental health and lifestyle behavior changes during COVID-19 among families living in poverty: A descriptive phenomenological study.

Problem: Families living in poverty may be particularly vulnerable to the deleterious effects of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The current study focuses on caregivers of preschoolers aged 3-5 years old who lived in poverty to explore how COVID-19 affected mental health and lifestyle behaviors and what coping strategies were helpful for dealing with challenges induced by COVID-19.

Methods: A qualitative study was conducted using individual semi-structured interviews with 17 caregivers.

Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to determine COVID-19 vaccination intentions and behavior among international and domestic college students in the United States.

Vaccination is the most effective strategy for preventing infectious diseases such as COVID-19. College students are important targets for COVID-19 vaccines given this population's lower intentions to be vaccinated; however, limited research has focused on international college students' vaccination status. This study explored how psychosocial factors from the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB; attitudes, perceived behavioral control, subjective norms, and behavioral intentions) related to students' receipt of the full course of COVID-19 vaccines and their plans to receive a booster.

Economic burden of childhood overweight and obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

To update existing literature and fill the gap in meta-analyses, this meta-analysis quantitatively evaluated the worldwide economic burden (in 2022 US $) of childhood overweight and obesity in comparison with healthy weight. The literature search in eight databases produced 7756 records. After literature screening, 48 articles met the eligibility criteria.

Stress management interventions among socioeconomically disadvantaged parents: A meta-analysis and moderation analysis.

Background: Socioeconomically disadvantaged parents experience high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression. Many interventions have been tested to reduce parental stress, but no meta-analysis has been conducted to quantitatively summarize the effects and explore the moderators of intervention effects among socioeconomically disadvantaged parents.

Objective: This meta-analysis aimed to (1) quantitatively examine the intervention effects of prior stress management interventions among socioeconomically disadvantaged parents on reducing stress, depression, and anxiety; and (2) explore the potential moderators of intervention effects.

Relationships among perceived stress, emotional eating, and dietary intake in college students: Eating self-regulation as a mediator.

This study aimed to examine the relationships among perceived stress, eating self-regulation, emotional eating, and dietary intake among undergraduate college students. This cross-sectional study was conducted with 523 students recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk. All participants completed an online survey that assessed perceived stress, eating self-regulation, emotional eating, dietary intake, and demographics.

Parental Perceived Facilitators for and Barriers to Participating in a Lifestyle Intervention to Reduce Early Childhood Obesity: A Qualitative Evaluation.

This study aimed to examine low-income mothers' perceived facilitators for and barriers to participating in a lifestyle intervention. A phenomenography approach was used to individually interview 14 mothers from Midwestern U.S.

Dose-Response Relationship in a Healthy Habits Study for Head Start Preschoolers.

Background: Understanding the dose-response relationship in behavioral interventions is critical to guide future research efforts. However, only few studies have fully examined the dose-response relationship especially among children.

Objective: The aim of the study was to examine the relationships between level of participation and intervention effects.

Dietary Intake Among Head Start Preschooler-caregiver Dyads.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between Head Start preschooler-caregiver dyad's dietary intake and factors influencing dietary intake.

Design And Methods: A cross-sectional, correlational design was used. Height and weight were measured.

Conflict of Interest Mitigation Procedures May Have Little Influence on the Perceived Procedural Fairness of Risk-Related Research.

Two between-subject experiments explored perceived conflict of interest (COI)-operationalized as perceived procedural unfairness-in a hypothetical public-private research partnership to study the health risks of trans fats. Perceived fairness was measured as subjects' perceptions that health researchers would be willing to listen to a range of voices and minimize bias (i.e.

Content Analysis of Diet-Related Mobile Apps: A Self-Regulation Perspective.

Diet-related mobile apps hold promise in helping individuals self-regulate their eating behaviors. Nevertheless, little is known about the extent to which diet-related mobile apps incorporate the established behavior change theories and evidence-based practices that promote dietary self-regulation. Guided by the self-regulation aspect of Bandura's social cognitive theory and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010 of the U.