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Health & Culture Project: Cultural Factors Underlying Obesity in African-American Adolescents

NCT02938663 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 273

Last updated 2016-10-19

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Summary

The overall goal of this study is to examine the relationships between cultural identity and identity-based motivation, physical activity, diet and obesity risk in African-American adolescents. It was hypothesized that African-American youth who self-report a bicultural identity maintain health promotion beliefs and behaviors that reduce obesity risk compared to minority youth who only identify with one culture or neither culture. It was also hypothesized that African-American youth who self report a bicultural identity are more likely to hold beliefs about health promotion behaviors that are congruent with their cultural identity than compared to youth who only identify with one culture or neither culture.

Conditions

  • Pediatric Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Questionnaires and Measurements

Participants completed anthropometric measurements and questionnaires assessing psychosocial stress, habitual dietary intake and physical activity as well as cultural identity, identity-based motivation and socioeconomic status. At home, participants recorded their habitual physical activity and food intake. Participants then returned to the laboratory to complete an assessment of identity-based motivation and received personalized information regarding their habitual physical activity and dietary patterns.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Rebecca E Hasson · University of Michigan

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-01-31
Primary Completion
2015-12-31
Completion
2015-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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