Increasing Water Intake In Lieu of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages among Latino Youth

描述(由申请者提供)：这份名为“增加拉美裔青年含糖饮料的饮水量”的申请是一项为期三年的提案，旨在响应PA-12-102 R13学术-社区合作会议系列。这项提议的总体目标是加强现有的学术--社区伙伴关系，以便为采取干预措施的优先事项提供信息，以增加拉美裔儿童和青少年的自来水摄入量，而不是SSB的摄入量。喝水而不是SSB可以减少儿童每天的总卡路里摄入量，从而减少肥胖。这个问题在拉美裔青年中具有特别重要的意义，因为他们比白人和亚洲儿童更有可能喝SSB，而不太可能喝自来水。到目前为止，很少有干预措施侧重于增加儿童的自来水摄入量，也没有干预措施侧重于增加拉美裔儿童的自来水摄入量。在过去的五年里，加州大学旧金山分校和伯克利阿特金斯体重与健康中心的研究人员与加州食品政策倡导者的营养倡导者合作，改善了加州公立学校的饮用水获取和摄入量。在2012年3月的一次会议上，地方、州和国家利益攸关方优先考虑开发和评估以学校为基础的干预措施，在肥胖风险最高的人群中促进自来水而不是SSB的摄入。这笔赠款的支持将使我们能够在最近的这次会议上再接再厉，并加强与加州中央山谷社区组织的伙伴关系，这是一个拥有大量低收入拉美裔人口的农业区，以解决拉美裔青年在饮料摄入量方面的差距。社区伙伴关系对于解决这种不平等现象至关重要。学术-社区伙伴关系的具体活动将包括：1)将代表广泛研究、政策和社区领域的一组不同的利益攸关方聚集在一起；2)制定谅解备忘录以编纂伙伴关系；3)每两个月举行一次会议，以澄清和界定利益攸关方的优先事项，开展以学校为基础的干预措施，重点是增加拉美裔儿童和青少年的自来水摄入量，而不是SSB；以及4)向更广泛的社区定期传播活动(即，国家专家介绍、地方研究结果报告和委员会进展报告、创新学校做法的案例研究、与社区有关的方法讲习班[例如，饮用水检测、PhotoVoice])。在三年期结束时，学术和社区伙伴关系将产生以下产品：开发R01应用程序，以审查以学校为基础的干预措施的效果，以促进拉美裔儿童和青少年中自来水的摄取，提交至少三份同行评议的手稿，获得资助拨款提案，并介绍相关立法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application, "Increasing Water Intake In Lieu of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages among Latino Youth," is a three-year proposal in response to PA-12-102 R13 Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series. The overall objective of this proposal is to enhance an existing academic-community partnership that will inform priorities for an intervention to increase intake of tap water in lieu of SSBs among Latino children and adolescents. Drinking water instead of SSBs can reduce children's total daily caloric intake thereby reducing obesity. This issue is of particular significance among Latino youth as they are more likely to drink SSBs and less likely to drink tap water than White and Asian children. To date, few interventions have focused on increasing water intake among children and there have been no interventions that have focused on increasing tap water intake among Latino children. For the past five years, researchers at the University Of California (CA) at San Francisco and the Atkins Center for Weight and Health at Berkeley in conjunction with nutrition advocates at the CA Food Policy Advocates have collaborated to improve drinking water access and intake in CA public schools. During a March 2012 convening, local, state, and national stakeholders prioritized a need for the development and evaluation of school-based interventions that promote intake of tap water instead of SSBs among populations most at risk for obesity. Support from this grant will allow us to build on this recent meeting and augment partnerships with community-based organizations from the CA Central Valley, an agricultural region with a large low-income, Latino population, to address disparities in beverage intake among Latino youth. Community-partnerships are essential to addressing such inequities. Specific activities for the academic-community partnership will include 1) bringing together a group of diverse stakeholders representing broad domains of research, policy, and community, 2) development of a memorandum of understanding to codify the partnership, 3) bimonthly meetings to clarify and delineate stakeholders' priorities for a school-based intervention focused on increasing tap water intake instead of SSBs among Latino children and adolescents, and 4) regular dissemination events to the broader community (i.e., national expert presentations, reports of local research study findings and board progress, case studies of innovative school practices, and methods workshops relevant to the community [e.g., drinking water testing, photovoice]). At the end of the three-year period, the academic-community partnership will produce the following products: development of an R01 application to examine the effect of a school-based intervention to promote tap water intake on obesity among Latino children and adolescents, submission of at least three peer-reviewed manuscripts, attainment of funded grant proposals, and introduction of relevant legislation.