Food assistance use barriers, facilitators, and recommendations: insights from a qualitative study of racially and ethnically diverse parents.

The objective of this study was to explore barriers and facilitators to utilising a range of food assistance resources as reported by parents living with or at risk for food insecurity (FI), as well as parents' recommendations for improving utilisation of these resources. Qualitative data from semi-structured interviews about parents' perspectives on interventions to address FI were analysed using a hybrid deductive/inductive thematic approach. Parents were drawn from the larger longitudinal cohort study ( = 1,307), which was recruited from primary care clinics in Minnesota.

Do parents engage in weight- and health-focused conversations with their emerging adult children and are there cross-sectional associations with weight and well-being outcomes?

Background: Research indicates harmful associations between parental weight-focused conversations and markers of pediatric health and well-being. However, little is known about the prevalence and consequences of parent conversations focused on weight or health behaviors (i.e.

Reported Intergenerational Transmission of Parent Weight Talk and Links with Child Health and Wellbeing.

Objectives: To examine if intergenerational transmission of parent weight talk occurs, the contextual factors prompting weight talk, and whether parent weight talk is associated with child weight, dietary intake, psychosocial outcomes, and food parenting practices.

Study Design: Children aged 5-9 years and their families (n = 1307) from 6 racial and ethnic groups (African-American, Hispanic, Hmong, Native American, Somali/Ethiopian, White) were recruited for a longitudinal cohort study through primary care clinics in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota from 2016 through 2019.

Examining measurement invariance of appetitive trait and ARFID symptom measures by food security status.

Objective: Measures assessing appetitive traits (i.e., individual differences in the desire to consume food) and disordered eating have generally been developed in predominantly food-secure populations.

Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between higher weight and eating disorder risk among collegiate athletes.

Objectives: To examine whether higher weight status is associated with increased eating disorder risk in athletes.

Design: Study 1 used cross-sectional (N = 942) and longitudinal (N = 483) data collected over a five-year period from Division I athletes at a Midwestern university. Study 2 used cross-sectional data from athletes competing at various levels at universities across the United States (N = 825).