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

F-EAT项目(青少年的家庭、饮食和活动)将探索青少年的家庭和家庭环境如何与青少年体重相关的结果相关。更具体地说，F-EAT项目将收集父母关于家庭范围内的食物和身体活动环境以及体重文化(例如节食和体重标准)的报告。这些父母报告将与青少年的体重状况、身体形象、体重控制做法、饮食摄入量和体力活动联系起来，这些正在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名不同种族和社会经济背景的青少年的父母或其他照顾者将通过邮件进行调查。将根据目标人群的需要，用英语、西班牙语和苗语进行调查。为了提高回应率并确保将不识字的父母(特别是苗族人)包括在内，将向多次尝试后仍未回复邮寄调查的父母提供电话调查选项。将努力从父母双方那里收集数据，从而扩大家庭文学的范围，迄今为止，家庭文学主要侧重于母亲。 F-EAT项目将建立在EAT(I和II)项目早期研究浪潮的基础上，并与目前得到资助的EAT-III项目无缝整合，该项目正在收集青少年的调查和人体测量数据，以及关于同伴、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测多个层面对青少年体重状况、饮食摄入量、体力活动、身体形象和体重控制行为的影响。对来自个人背景和不同水平的环境(家庭、同伴、学校和邻居)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有丰富的理解，这对于为年轻人制定有效的多层次干预措施至关重要。F-EAT项目将与EAT-III项目协同结合，产生比单独进行任何一项研究都可能产生的更多知识。 F-EAT项目将在家庭、医疗服务提供者、学校和社区都在努力解决如何最好地帮助来自不同背景的青少年做出健康的饮食和体育活动选择，避免不健康的体重控制做法，并预防进食障碍和肥胖之际，提供一个知识基础。

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.