The following project briefs describe CHI's active projects for 2006-2007:
Active for Life (Sponsored by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation )
Project Director: Marcia Ory, Texas A&M School of Public Health
K-State Co-Investigator/Consultant: Dzewaltowski
Active for Life is a four-year initiative supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation® that seeks to increase the number of American adults age 50 and older who engage in regular physical activity (30 minutes a day on most days). Active for Life! will pursue a multi-pronged strategy that includes the replication and expansion of programs already developed that have demonstrated efficacy in increasing physical activity levels among mid-life and older adults. Under this project a total of $8.7 million was awarded to nine community sites in January 2003 for a four-year period, to test the effectiveness of promising interventions to promote physical activity in the general population of mid-life and older persons at health risk because of their sedentary lifestyles.
Enhancing the Capacity of Rural Communities to
Understand and Create Healthy Food Environments in Areas
with Limited Access to Grocery Stores (Sponsored by
Sunflower Foundation)
Project Manager: Paula Ford
Principal Investigator: David Dzewaltowski
Total Award: $149,672
Enhancing the capacity of rural communities to understand
and create health food environments in areas with limited
access to grocery stores.
Exercise on Postprandial Inflammation and Lipemia
in Overweight Men (Sponsored by American Heart
Association)
Principal Investigator: Mark Haub
Faithful Footsteps( Sponsored by Sunflower
Foundation )
Principal Investigator : Melissa Bopp
Investigator : Elizabeth Fallon
This project involves the development and
implementation of a faith based physical activity
intervention targeting Latinos .Project activities include
formative research , intervention design , community
training , assessment and data analysis .
Healthy Opportunities for Physical Activity & Nutrition After School (HOP'N) Project (Sponsored by U.S. Department of Agriculture Award No. 2005-35215-15418.)
Principal Investigator: David Dzewaltowski; K-State Co-Investigator: Stewart Trost, George Milliken
Total Award $900,000
The aim of this project is to evaluate the impact of the newly developed HOP'N After School Program on 4
th grade children's youth development (physical activity and healthy eating beliefs), healthy eating, physical activity, and risk for overweight. Specific objective A is to evaluate the effectiveness of a multilevel out-of-school healthy eating (HE) and physical activity (PA) intervention for reducing body mass index (BMI) in 4
th grade children. In addition to the primary BMI outcome, the intervention's effect on secondary health behavior outcomes (HE, PA) and tertiary youth development outcomes (self-efficacy) will also be assessed. Specific objective B is to determine the impact of the intervention program on the community's adult leadership (Community Hub) and child leadership (Healthy Places Club Change Team) and the children's HE and PA environment. Specific objective C is to determine the multilevel community, school/out-of-school setting, and youth (social and psychological, family) factors that influence the development of obesity by studying the processes that mediate and moderate health behavior change.
Individual and Environmental Mechanisms of Physical Activity Change (Sponsored by NIH National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
Principal Investigator: Paul Estabrooks (Kaiser Permanente - Colorado)
K-State Co-Investigator: David Dzewaltowski
There is a dearth of information on the mechanisms, and potential moderators, of physical activity (PA) intervention effectiveness. With the study's findings, researchers expect to better understand the mechanisms of PA and, in turn, increase their ability to develop successful interventions. Likewise, a better understanding of moderators will make it easier to match intervention components to individual needs of particular populations. Looking at two interventions, one individual and one environmental, the investigators will assess the reach, effectiveness, clinician adoption, and staff implementation. The interventions will be assessed individually, in combination, and when compared to controls. Participants will be drawn from a high need population of individuals who are at an elevated risk for, but have not yet suffered, a serious cardiac event.
The study will also include an assessment of the cost of delivering the interventions and maintenance of intervention effects on causal mechanisms and PA at 6 and 12 months following intervention.
Integrating Schools, Community, and Family to Effect
Sedentary Behavior, Fruit, and Vegetable Consumption and
Physical Activity (Sponsored by Cooperative State
Research, Education, and Extension Service/USDA)
Project Director: Candice Shoemaker
Funding Approximately 1,000,00.
Nutrition Environments in Low Income Schools
(Sponsored by Cooperative State Research, Education, and
Extension Service/USDA)
Project Director: Karen Coleman at San Diego State
(Subcontract to Dzewaltowski at K-State)
Funding Approximately 1,000,00.
RE-AIM
(Sponsored by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Principal Investigator: David Dzewaltowski
Total Award $203,054
The RE-AIM framework is a systematic evaluation plan that will allow researchers, practitioners, and policy decision makers to determine potential public health impact of health behavior interventions. RE-AIM is an acronym for health behavior intervention elements that are addressed by the framework: Reach, Efficacy/Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance. The RE-AIM website ( www.re-aim.org ) helps researchers and community leaders consider how research might be translated from theory to practice. The grant has supported the RE-AIM team in these activities:
• conducting a literature review resulting in several publications in peer-reviewed journals. In these publications the team has identified elements and results of health behavior intervention studies that are rarely reported. The team has also offered suggestions for ways in which reporting, and ultimately health behavior interventions, can be improved.
• providing technical assistance and training, in person and by teleconferences, to organizations who have received "Active for Life" grants from the RWJF.
expanding and improving the website www.re-aim.org , which provides resources to help people design, evaluate, and/or select health behavior interventions.
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