Role of 3D Weight Progression Software in Weight Counseling to Decrease Weight-related Health Disparities Among Adolescent African-American Females

3D 体重进展软件在体重咨询中的作用，以减少非洲裔美国青少年女性与体重相关的健康差异

• 批准号: 9000873
• 负责人: Yolandra Hancock
• 金额: $ 19.45万
• 依托单位: DELTA HEALTH AND WELLNESS CONSULTING
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-25 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9000873
• 关键词: Accident and Emergency department; Address; Adolescence; Adolescent; Adult; Affect; African American; Age; Algorithmic Software; Behavior; Body mass index; Categories; Child; Child health care; Childhood; Clinical; Communication; Comprehension; Computer software; Computers; Consult; Counseling; Data; Diagnosis; Direct Costs; Disease; District of Columbia; Drug Prescriptions; Eating; Empirical Research; Energy Intake; Engineering; Entrepreneurship; Epidemic; Equilibrium; Ethnic Origin; Feedback; Female; Female Adolescents; Focus Groups; Future; Gender; Growth; Habits; Health; Health Personnel; Health Status; Health behavior; High Prevalence; Incidence; Inpatients; Knowledge; Medicaid; Methods; Minority; Monitor; Non obese; Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus; Obesity; Outpatients; Overweight; Parents; Patients; Perception; Personal Behavior; Phase; Physical Fitness; Physical activity; Population; Preparation; Prevalence; Provider; Race; Research; Research Personnel; Role; Rosa; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Surveys; Target Populations; Technology; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Weight; Weight Gain; Weight maintenance regimen; Youth; adolescent patient; age group; base; behavior change; clinical practice; commercialization; cost; data sharing; girls; health disparity; health literacy; improved; innovation; mathematical ability; nutrition; obesity in children; obesity management; population based; prototype; public health relevance; research and development; statistics; three-dimensional modeling; tool; trend; usability

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Childhood and adolescent obesity is a growing epidemic in the United States, especially among minorities. Research has repeatedly shown that African-American youth are disproportionately affected by the obesity epidemic, especially African-American girls. By 2007-08, almost 30 percent of black girls were obese, the highest prevalence of any age group by gender, race or ethnicity. With statistics indicating that 50% of obese children become obese adults, related illness treatments are projected to cost close to $147 billion. For these reasons, it is imperative that health care providers, parents, and adolescent patients effectively communicate with each another in regards to the child's weight and Body Mass Index (BMI) trajectories. The only tools currently available are weight and BMI percentile charts, which require both an acceptance of these population standards and a certain level of health literacy and numeracy which make their use very limiting. This proposal describes a useful method for not only explaining growth trends and but also monitoring weight in a busy clinical practice. It has the potential to significantly decrease the disparity observed n the obesity epidemic as well as to improve weight management counseling in and outside of the clinical setting by facilitating better knowledge sharing and improved comprehension of weight trends, health behaviors, and their impact on adolescence health. A low-cost software application is proposed to equip providers with the ability to immediately demonstrate prediction of future weight gain and provide a better understanding of how personal behaviors directly result in changes in weight and BMI change. The SBIR Phase I will investigate the technical merit and feasibility of the software application.

 描述（由申请人提供）：儿童和青少年肥胖在美国是一种日益增长的流行病，特别是在少数民族中。研究一再表明，非洲裔美国青年受到肥胖流行病的影响不成比例，特别是非洲裔美国女孩。到2007-08年，近30%的黑人女孩肥胖，是任何年龄组中肥胖率最高的性别，种族或民族。统计数据表明，50%的肥胖儿童会成为肥胖的成年人，相关疾病的治疗预计将花费近1470亿美元。出于这些原因，医疗保健提供者、父母和青少年患者必须就儿童的体重和体重指数（BMI）轨迹进行有效沟通。目前唯一可用的工具是体重和身体质量指数百分位数图表，这需要接受这些人口标准和一定水平的卫生知识和算术能力，这使得它们的使用非常有限。该建议描述了一种有用的方法，不仅可以解释生长趋势，而且可以在忙碌的临床实践中监测体重。它有可能显着减少在肥胖流行中观察到的差异，并通过促进更好的知识共享和改善对体重趋势，健康行为及其对青少年健康的影响的理解，改善临床环境内外的体重管理咨询。提出了一种低成本的软件应用程序，使供应商能够立即展示对未来体重增加的预测，并更好地了解个人行为如何直接导致体重和BMI变化。SBIR第一阶段将研究软件应用的技术优点和可行性。