Project F-EAT: Families and Eating and Activity in Teens

项目F-EAT（青少年的家庭、饮食和活动）将探讨青少年的家庭和家庭环境与青少年体重相关结果的关系。更具体地说，F-EAT项目将收集父母在家庭环境中的食物和身体活动环境以及体重文化（例如节食和体重规范）的报告。这些家长报告将与青少年的体重状况、身体形象、体重控制措施、饮食摄入量和体育活动联系起来，这些信息将作为另一项研究的一部分收集。 来自明尼阿波利斯/圣保罗的2400名种族和社会经济多样化青少年的父母或其他照顾者将通过邮件进行调查。将根据目标人口的需要，以英语、西班牙语和苗族语进行调查。为了提高答复率并确保将不识字的父母（特别是苗族人）包括在内，将向几次尝试后没有答复邮寄调查的父母提供电话调查。将努力从父母双方收集数据，从而扩大迄今为止主要侧重于母亲的家庭文献。 项目F-EAT将建立在项目EAT（I和II）的早期研究浪潮的基础上，并与目前资助的项目EAT-III研究无缝集成，该研究正在收集青少年的调查和人体测量数据以及同龄人，学校和社区特征的环境数据。F-EAT项目将通过提供有关家庭和家庭环境的父母数据来补充这一生态观点。很少有研究采取多层次的方法，同时检查多层次的影响，体重状况，饮食摄入量，身体活动，身体形象，体重控制行为的青少年。充分了解来自个人背景和不同层次的环境（家庭，同龄人，学校和邻里）的变量如何相互作用，以影响与体重相关的健康的不同方面，对于制定有效的多层次干预措施至关重要。F-EAT项目将与EAT-III项目协同联合收割机，产生比单独进行任何一项研究所能产生的更多的知识。 项目F-EAT将提供一个知识库，当家庭，卫生服务提供者，学校和社区正在努力如何最好地帮助来自不同背景的青少年做出健康饮食和体育活动的选择，避免不健康的体重控制做法，并防止饮食失调和肥胖。

Project F-EAT (Families and Eating and Activity in Teens) will explore how the familial and home environment of adolescents is related to adolescent weight-related outcomes. More specifically, Project F-EAT will collect parental reports of the food and physical activity environments and weight culture (e.g. dieting and weight norms) within the context of the home. These parental reports will be linked to adolescents’ weight status, body image, weight control practices, dietary intake, and physical activity, which are being collected as part of another study. Parents or other caregivers of 2400 ethnically and socio-economically diverse adolescents from Minneapolis/St. Paul will be surveyed by mail. Surveys will be conducted in English, Spanish, and Hmong in accordance with the needs of the targeted population. To enhance response rates and ensure the inclusion of parents who can not read (particularly from the Hmong population), a telephone survey option will be offered to parents who do not respond the mailed survey after several attempts. Efforts will be made to collect data from both parents thus expanding upon the familial literature, which to date has focused primarily on mothers. Project F-EAT will build upon earlier study waves of Projects EAT (I and II) and be seamlessly integrated with the currently funded Project EAT-III study, which is collecting survey and anthropometric data from adolescents and environmental data on peer, school, and neighborhood characteristics. Project F-EAT will complement this ecological perspective by providing parental data on the familial and home environment. Few studies have taken a multi-level approach simultaneously examining multiple layers of influences on weight status, dietary intake, physical activity, body image, and weight control behaviors in adolescents. A rich understanding of how variables from individual contexts and different levels of the environment (family, peer, school, and neighborhood) interact to influence different aspects of weight-related health is critical to the development of effective multi-level interventions for young people. Project F-EAT will combine synergistically with Project EAT-III to produce far more knowledge than would be possible with either study on its own. Project F-EAT will provide a knowledge base at a time when families, health providers, schools, and communities are struggling with how best to help adolescents from diverse backgrounds make healthy eating and physical activity choices, avoid unhealthy weight control practices, and prevent both eating disorders and obesity.