PATHWAYS--FULL SCALE STUDY

描述 途径项目是一项全面的、以学校为基础的干预措施， 来帮助减少美国土著儿童的肥胖。 三、四、五年级， 来自六个美洲印第安民族的40所学校参与其中：皮马/马鲁拉， Tohono O 'odham、纳瓦霍人、白色山地阿帕奇人、奥格拉拉拉科塔人和西坎古人 拉科塔 干预是通过六方代表实施的 国家和四所合作大学：约翰霍普金斯大学， 新墨西哥州大学、亚利桑那大学和 明尼苏达州的第五所大学，北卡罗来纳州， 作为协调中心。 Pathways的设计是一个随机的， 对照试验，包括以下组成部分：体力活动、食物 服务、课堂课程和家庭参与。 NHLBI资助了一个 三年可行性研究，其结果在提案中概述， 现在PI正在申请资金来开始全面的研究， 在五年的时间里进行。

DESCRIPTION The Pathways Project is a comprehensive, school-based intervention designed to help reduce obesity in Native American children. Grades 3, 4, and 5 in forty schools from six American Indian nations are involved: Pima/Maricopa, Tohono O'odham, Navajo, White Mountain Apache, Oglala Lakota, and Sicangu Lakota. The intervention is implemented through representatives of the six nations and four cooperating universities: The Johns Hopkins University, the University of New Mexico, the University of Arizona, and the University of Minnesota with a fifth institution, the University of North Carolina, serving as the Coordinating Center. The design of Pathways is a randomized, controlled trial with the following components: physical activity, food service, classroom curriculum, and family involvement. The NHLBI funded a three-year feasibility study, whose results are summarized in the proposal, and now the PI's are requesting funding to begin the full-scale study, to be carried out over a five-year period.