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"If my family is happy, then I am happy": Quality-of-life determinants of parents of school-age children

scientific article published on 02 February 2019

"My Tummy Tells Me" Cognitions, Barriers and Supports of Parents and School-Age Children for Appropriate Portion Sizes

scientific article published on 08 August 2018

"My stuffed animals help me": the importance, barriers, and strategies for adequate sleep behaviors of school-age children and parents

scientific article published on 11 January 2019

"Your Body Feels Better When You Drink Water": Parent and School-Age Children's Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Cognitions

scientific article published on 05 September 2018

A Community Based Participatory Approach to Training Young Adults to Design and Implement a Social Marketing Framed Lifestyle Intervention on Their College Campus

scientific article published in 2018

A Community-Based Cultural Adaptation Process: Developing a Relevant Cooking Curriculum to Address Food Security for Burundian and Congolese Refugee Families

scientific article published on 25 May 2020

A Modified Nominal Group Technique (mNGT) - Finding Priorities in Research

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

A Multi-Year Examination of Gardening Experience and Fruit and Vegetable Intake During College

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

Accuracy of self-reported BMI using objective measurement in high school students

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

An Evaluability Assessment of the West Virginia Physical Activity Plan, 2015: Lessons Learned for Other State Physical Activity Plans.

scientific article published on 29 December 2016

An Impact Mapping Method to Generate Robust Qualitative Evaluation of Community-Based Research Programs for Youth and Adults

scientific article published on 17 July 2018

Assessment of the dining environment on and near the campuses of fifteen post-secondary institutions

scientific article published on 17 October 2012

Bariatric Surgery Outcomes in Appalachia Influenced by Surgery Type, Diabetes, and Depression

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Choice Architecture in Appalachian High Schools: Evaluating and Improving Cafeteria Environments

scientific article published on 11 January 2019

College Students' Health Behavior Clusters: Differences by Sex.

scientific article published on July 2017

Consumption of Health-Related Content on Social Media Among Adolescent Girls: Mixed-Methods Pilot Study

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Cooking Frequency Associated With Dietary Quality in iCook-4H Youth Participants at Baseline.

scientific article published on 2 April 2019

Cooking and Meal Planning as Predictors of Fruit and Vegetable Intake and BMI in First-Year College Students

scientific article published on 11 July 2019

Correlations of Self-Reported Androgen Deficiency in Ageing Males (ADAM) with Stress and Sleep among Young Adult Males

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Development and Evaluation of a Dynamic Response Cognitive Interview Methodology for Nutrition Education Material Design (P13-010-19)

Development and Evaluation of a Higher Education Food Security Toolkit to Provide Ideas of Initiatives for Student Wellbeing: WISH4Campus (P04-049-19)

Development and Preliminary Testing of the Food Choice Priorities Survey (FCPS): Assessing the Importance of Multiple Factors on College Students' Food Choices.

scientific article published in December 2017

Development and Testing of Program Evaluation Instruments for the iCook 4-H Curriculum

scientific article published on 22 November 2018

Development and Validation of a Simple Convenience Store SHELF Audit

scientific article published on 28 November 2018

Development and Validation of the Policies, Opportunities, Initiatives and Notable Topics (POINTS) Audit for Campuses and Worksites

scientific article published on 04 March 2019

Development and Validation of the Short Healthy Eating Index Survey with a College Population to Assess Dietary Quality and Intake

scientific article published on 27 August 2020

Development and Validation of the Vending Evaluation for Nutrient-Density (VEND)ing Audit

article

Development of Young Adults Eating and Active for Health (YEAH) internet-based intervention via a community-based participatory research model

scientific article

Development of an Instrument Measuring Perceived Environmental Healthfulness: Behavior Environment Perception Survey (BEPS)

scientific article published on 22 October 2019

Development of iGrow: A Curriculum for Youth/Adult Dyads to Increase Gardening Skills, Culinary Competence, and Family Meal Time for Youths and Their Adult Caregivers

scientific article published on 03 July 2018

Development of the iCook 4-H Curriculum for Youth and Adults: Cooking, Eating, and Playing Together for Childhood Obesity Prevention

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Dissemination Using Infographic Reports Depicting Program Impact of a Community-Based Research Program: eB4CAST in iCook 4-H

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Educational intervention improves fruit and vegetable intake in young adults with metabolic syndrome components

scientific article published on 22 November 2018

Efficacy of nutritional interventions to lower circulating ceramides in young adults: FRUVEDomic pilot study

scientific article

Enhancing College Student Recovery Outcomes Through Nutrition and Culinary Therapy: Mountaineers for Recovery and Resilience

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

Evaluation of the food store environment on and near the campus of 15 postsecondary institutions.

scientific article published in March 2013

Examining the effect of weight conscious drinking on binge drinking frequency among college freshmen

scientific article published on 26 July 2019

Exercise reveals impairments in left ventricular systolic function in patients with metabolic syndrome

scientific article

Expenditure, Coping, and Academic Behaviors among Food-Insecure College Students at 10 Higher Education Institutes in the Appalachian and Southeastern Regions

scientific article published on 24 April 2019

Experiential Application of a Culinary Medicine Cultural Immersion Program for Health Professionals

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Feasibility and Acceptability of Implementing a Culturally Adapted Cooking Curriculum for Burundian and Congolese Refugee Families

scientific article published on 12 May 2020

Feasibility of a mHealth Approach to Nutrition Counseling in an Appalachian State

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Food Choice Priorities Change Over Time and Predict Dietary Intake at the End of the First Year of College Among Students in the U.S

scientific article published on 13 September 2018

Food Insecurity Is Associated with Increased Risk of Obesity in US College Students

scientific article published on 15 July 2020

Food Insecurity and Behavioral Characteristics for Academic Success in Young Adults Attending an Appalachian University.

scientific article published on 16 March 2018

Food-related behavior and intake of adult main meal preparers of 9-10 year-old children participating in iCook 4-H: A five-state childhood obesity prevention pilot study.

scientific article published on 9 March 2016

Future Implications of Using Registered Dietitians in Multidisciplinary Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Treatment

article

Gardening Experience Is Associated with Increased Fruit and Vegetable Intake among First-Year College Students: A Cross-Sectional Examination

scientific article published on 30 November 2017

Geographical Prevalence of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome as Determined by Region and Race/Ethnicity

Health Behaviors of Student Community Research Partners When Designing and Implementing a Healthy Lifestyle Intervention on College Campuses

article

Health Disparities Score Composite of Youth and Parent Dyads from an Obesity Prevention Intervention: iCook 4-H.

scientific article published on 22 May 2018

Higher Education Food Insecurity Toolkit Development and Feedback

scientific article published on 06 November 2019

How Parents Can Help Kids Make Healthy Choices: Advice from Children (P04-006-19)

scientific article published on 13 June 2019

Incorporating Technology Into the iCook 4-H Program, a Cooking Intervention for Adults and Children: Randomized Controlled Trial

scientific article published on 29 August 2019

KATALYST: Development of a 5th grade novel approach to health and science experiential learning

scientific article published on 01 January 2018

Katalyst Pilot Study: Using Interactive Activities in Anatomy and Physiology to Teach Children the Scientific Foundation of Healthy Lifestyles

Learn first, practice second approach to increase health professionals' nutrition-related knowledge, attitudes and self-efficacy

scientific article published on 14 November 2019

Life of a vegetarian college student: Health, lifestyle, and environmental perceptions

scientific article published on 28 April 2020

Metabolic Syndrome Prevalence in Students Attending West Virginia University

Metabolic syndrome: comparison of prevalence in young adults at 3 land-grant universities.

scientific article published in January 2014

Monetary Cost of the MyPlate Diet in Young Adults: Higher Expenses Associated with Increased Fruit and Vegetable Consumption.

scientific article published on 2 May 2019

More than Fast Food: Development of a Story Map to Compare Adolescent Perceptions and Observations of Their Food Environments and Related Food Behaviors

article

Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling of Students' Dietary Intentions/Behaviors, BMI, and the Healthfulness of Convenience Stores

scientific article published on 23 October 2018

NP2 Fruving the World: A Social Marketing and Environmental Change Intervention

scholarly article

Neck Circumference Positively Relates to Cardiovascular Risk Factors in College Students

scientific article published on 13 July 2018

P137 Food Insecure Students Identify Price as the Most Important Determinant of Their Food Choices

scholarly article

P6 Agreement of Self-Reported and Objectively Measured BMI in the Adolescent Population

scholarly article

PACES: a Physical Activity Campus Environmental Supports Audit on university campuses

scientific article published on 7 November 2013

Parent and School-Age Children's Food Preparation Cognitions and Behaviors Guide Recommendations for Future Interventions

scientific article published on 08 March 2019

Parenting Advice School-Age Kids Offer to Parents to Promote Healthier Child Weight-Related Behaviors

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

Path Analysis of Campus Walkability/Bikeability and College Students' Physical Activity Attitudes, Behaviors, and Body Mass Index.

scientific article published on 13 September 2016

Prevalence and correlates of food insecurity among U.S. college students: a multi-institutional study.

scientific article published on 29 May 2019

Psychological Diagnoses and Weight Loss among Appalachian Bariatric Surgery Patients

scientific article published on 10 February 2020

Rapid Dissemination of College Food Insecurity Findings in A Multi-Institutional Study Using the eB4CAST Approach

scientific article published on 02 June 2020

Redesign, Field-Testing, and Validation of the Physical Activity Campus Environmental Supports (PACES) Audit.

scientific article published on 19 May 2019

Relationship between Diet and Mental Health in a Young Adult Appalachian College Population

scientific article published on 25 July 2018

Revision and Psychometric Validation of a Survey Tool to Measure Critical Nutrition Literacy in Young Adults

scientific article published on 06 March 2020

Ripple Effect Mapping Outcomes of a Childhood Obesity Prevention Program From Youth and Adult Dyads Using a Qualitative Approach: iCook 4-H

scientific article published on 25 October 2018

Role of Critical Nutrition Literacy in Making Informed Decisions About Dietary Behavior (OR08-07-19)

Self-Reported vs. Measured Height, Weight, and BMI in Young Adults

scientific article published on 11 October 2018

Sex Differences in Lifestyle Behaviors among U.S. College Freshmen

scientific article published on 07 February 2019

Shortening of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index Survey Using Factor Analysis.

scientific article

Survey Development to Assess College Students' Perceptions of the Campus Environment.

scientific article published in November 2017

Teens Implementing a Childhood Obesity Prevention Program in the Community: Feasibility and Perceptions of a Partnership with HSTA and iCook 4-H.

scientific article

The "Motor of the Day": Parent and School-Age Children's Cognitions, Barriers, and Supports for Breakfast

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

The Current Description and Future Need for Multidisciplinary PCOS Clinics

scientific article published on 28 October 2018

The effects of Young Adults Eating and Active for Health (YEAH): a theory-based Web-delivered intervention

scientific article

The iCook 4-H Study: An Intervention and Dissemination Test of a Youth/Adult Out-of-School Program

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

The iCook 4-H Study: Report on Physical Activity and Sedentary Time in Youth Participating in a Multicomponent Program Promoting Family Cooking, Eating, and Playing Together

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Understanding physical activity outcomes as a function of teen smoking cessation.

scientific article published on 9 April 2013

Vegetarian Diets and the Risk of Diabetes

scientific article published on 18 September 2018

eB4CAST Approach Improves Science Communication With Stakeholders in a College-Based Health Program

scientific article published on 07 May 2020

eB4CAST: An Evidence-Based Tool to Promote Dissemination and Implementation in Community-Based, Public Health Research

article

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