Maternal and Paternal Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Offspring Health and Wellbeing: A Scoping Review.
Grafft N, Lo B, Easton SD, Pineros-Leano M, Davison KK.
Matern Child Health J. 2023 Nov 01. PMID: 37914980
RESEARCH INTERESTS
1. Family-centered interventions for obesity prevention
2. Parenting effects on youth physical activity and screen-based behaviors
3. Development and application of conceptual models for obesity prevention
4. Program evaluation; longitudinal research designs
My research primarily focuses on family- and community-level factors that influence children's lifestyle behaviors (diet, physical activity, screen-based activities) and risk of obesity. Key topics that I have researched to date include familial clustering of risk behaviors linked with accelerated weight gain in children, psychosocial consequences of obesity in children, parenting strategies that promote active lifestyles in children, and developmental and contextual factors that explain declines in adolescent girls’ physical activity. More recently, my work has focused on the development and evaluation of family-centered interventions for obesity prevention in low-income children, including children enrolled in WIC and Head Start. A primary emphasis of these programs is the need to consider the family unit as a whole and address factors beyond the family (e.g., community resources, media factors) that impact on intrafamilial interactions around healthy lifestyles.
A secondary focus of my work is the development and application of conceptual models that foster a stronger understanding of the contextual, developmental and behavioral origins of obesity in children and adolescents. Examples include the Ecological Model of Childhood Obesity (Davison & Birch 2001), the Family Ecological Model (Davison & Campell, 2005) and the Family Action-based Model of Intervention Layout and Implementation (FAMILI)) (Davison, Lawson, & Coatsworth, in press).
Grafft N, Lo B, Easton SD, Pineros-Leano M, Davison KK.
Matern Child Health J. 2023 Nov 01. PMID: 37914980
Gago C, Aftosmes-Tobio A, Beckerman-Hsu JP, Oddleifson C, Garcia EA, Lansburg K, Figueroa R, Yu X, Kitos N, Torrico M, Leonard J, Jurkowski JK, Mattei J, Kenney EL, Haneuse S, Davison KK.
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2023 01 11. 20(1):4. PMID: 36631869
Grafft N, Aftosmes-Tobio A, Gago C, Lansburg K, Beckerman-Hsu J, Trefry B, Kumanyika S, Davison K.
Transl Behav Med. 2022 11 21. 12(11):1065-1075. PMID: 36318233
Wu AJ, Aris IM, Hivert MF, Fiechtner L, Davison KK, Redline S, Taveras EM.
J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2022 08 01. 75(2):e15-e19. PMID: 35641893
Egan KA, Lo BK, Haneuse S, Davison KK, Redline S, Taveras EM.
Acad Pediatr. 2022 May 13. PMID: 35577285
Passarelli S, Sudfeld C, Davison KK, Fawzi W, Donato K, Tessema M, Gunaratna NS, De Groote H, Cohen J, McConnell M.
J Nutr. 2022 05 05. 152(5):1327-1335. PMID: 35102394
Quante M, McGee GW, Yu X, von Ash T, Luo M, Kaplan ER, Rueschman M, Haneuse S, Davison KK, Redline S, Taveras EM.
Sleep Med. 2022 06. 94:31-37. PMID: 35489116
Gago CM, Wynne JO, Moore MJ, Cantu-Aldana A, Vercammen K, Zatz LY, May K, Andrade T, Mendoza T, Stone SL, Mattei J, Davison KK, Rimm EB, Colchamiro R, Kenney EL.
Pediatrics. 2022 02 01. 149(2). PMID: 35039867
Gago CM, Jurkowski J, Beckerman-Hsu JP, Aftosmes-Tobio A, Figueroa R, Oddleifson C, Mattei J, Kenney EL, Haneuse S, Davison KK.
Soc Sci Med. 2022 03. 296:114761. PMID: 35123371
Li X, Haneuse S, Rueschman M, Kaplan ER, Yu X, Davison KK, Redline S, Taveras EM.
Sleep. 2022 01 11. 45(1). PMID: 34676870
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