The impact of weight on quality of life in African American women

体重对非裔美国女性生活质量的影响

• 批准号: 7811432
• 负责人: Tiffany LaShaun Carson
• 金额: $ 2.64万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-03-01 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7811432
• 关键词: Address; Affect; African; African American; Area; Arts; Belief; Body Image; Body Size; Body Weight; Body mass index; Caucasians; Caucasoid Race; Chronic; Clinical; Clinical Nutrition; Clinical Research; Commit; Data; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Disease; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Environment; Epidemic; Evaluation; Fellowship; Foundations; Funding; Goals; Health; Heart Diseases; Individual; Intervention; Lead; Literature; Malignant Neoplasms; Mediating; Mediation; Mediator of activation protein; Mentorship; Mission; Not Hispanic or Latino; Nutritional Study; Obesity; Overweight; Participant; Perception; Persons; Population; Psyche structure; Public Health Schools; Quality of life; Race; Reaction; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Respondent; Role; Sampling; Science; Social Well-Being; Societies; Students; Surveys; Testing; Training and Education; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Weight; Woman; Work; career; caucasian American; expectation; experience; health disparity; interest; nutrition; psychosocial; public health relevance; research facility; social

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Tiffany L. Cox, MPH is motivated and committed to an academic career in obesity research. She has demonstrated her ability to complete projects and work independently in the past, and shows the qualities necessary to become a productive researcher with the education and training provided by this fellowship. Sponsors: Jose R. Fernandez, PhD, Vice Chair of Education in the Nutrition Sciences Department is committed to mentorship of young investigators, fellows and students as well as providing themes and direction to the department whose mission is to develop critical and analytical thinkers that will contribute to the field of obesity research. Jamy D. Ard, MD, Vice Chair of Clinical Activity will serve as co- sponsor offering further expertise in clinical research and culturally specific challenges in obesity. Environment: UAB provides depth and diversity of clinical research endeavors as well as state-of-the-art physical resources necessary to support this F31 application. Specific resources that will be utilized in this proposal include UAB's NIH funded Clinical Nutrition Research Center, research facilities and resources within the Department of Nutrition Sciences and the School of Public Health. Research: African American women currently represent a disproportionate number of overweight individuals in the United States. However, it remains unclear whether excess weight has a significant association with reported quality of life in African American women. Since quality of life is related to overall health, it is worthwhile to examine the impact of weight on quality of life in this unique population. This proposal aims to address the following: 1) assess the overall and domain specific impact of weight on quality of life in African American women using the Impact of Weight on Quality of Life - Lite (IWQOL-Lite) Survey 2) compare the reported impact of weight on quality of life in African American and Caucasian women using a matched sample from extant data on Caucasian women, and 3) use the Baron and Kenny test for mediation to determine if body image dissatisfaction is a mediator in the relationship between BMI and quality of life in this unique population. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Accomplishing the goals of this proposal will provide valuable literature to address a key health disparity in the field of obesity, a component of the overall mission of several agencies within the National Institutes of Health. A better understanding of the effect of BMI on all domains of health including quality of life in African American women will lead to the development of appropriate interventions to promote achieving a healthy body weight in African American women. It will also help to build upon Tiffany's foundation for a continued career in the area of obesity research in underrepresented populations.

描述（由申请人提供）：Tiffany L.考克斯，公共卫生硕士是积极的，并致力于在肥胖研究的学术生涯。她已经证明了她在过去独立完成项目和工作的能力，并显示出必要的素质，成为一个富有成效的研究人员与该奖学金提供的教育和培训。赞助商：Jose R.费尔南德斯，博士，在营养科学系教育副主席致力于指导年轻的研究人员，研究员和学生，以及提供主题和方向的部门，其使命是发展批判性和分析性的思想家，将有助于肥胖研究领域。杰米·D医学博士，临床活动副主席将作为共同赞助商提供进一步的专业知识，在临床研究和文化特定的挑战，肥胖。工作环境：UAB提供了临床研究工作的深度和多样性，以及支持F31应用所需的最先进的物理资源。本提案将利用的具体资源包括UAB的NIH资助的临床营养研究中心、营养科学系和公共卫生学院的研究设施和资源。研究：非洲裔美国妇女目前在美国超重的人数不成比例。然而，目前尚不清楚超重是否与非洲裔美国妇女的生活质量有显着关联。由于生活质量与整体健康有关，因此值得研究体重对这一独特人群生活质量的影响。该提案旨在解决以下问题：1）使用体重对生活质量的影响- Lite评估体重对非洲裔美国妇女生活质量的总体和特定领域的影响（IWQOL-Lite）调查2）使用来自高加索女性现有数据的匹配样本，比较了非裔美国人和高加索女性体重对生活质量的影响，以及3）使用Baron和Kenny检验作为中介，以确定身体形象不满是否是该独特人群中BMI与生活质量之间关系的中介。 公共卫生关系：实现这一建议的目标将提供有价值的文献，以解决肥胖领域的一个关键的健康差距，在美国国立卫生研究院的几个机构的整体使命的一个组成部分。更好地了解BMI对非裔美国妇女所有健康领域（包括生活质量）的影响，将有助于制定适当的干预措施，促进非裔美国妇女实现健康体重。这也将有助于建立在蒂芙尼的基础上，继续在代表性不足的人群中进行肥胖研究。

项目成果

Examining the Association Between Body Mass Index and Weight Related Quality of Life in Black and White Women.

• DOI: 10.1007/s11482-011-9160-8
• 发表时间: 2012-09
• 期刊: Applied research in quality of life
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: Cox TL;Ard JD;Beasley TM;Fernandez JR;Howard VJ;Kolotkin RL;Crosby RD;Affuso O
• 通讯作者: Affuso O