Overview
The proposed study will test the efficacy of a family-focused preventive intervention in improving healthy lifestyles among first-time parents in military families and reducing obesity risk among their infants.
Project Goals
The ultimate goals of the intervention are to reduce rapid infant weight gain, an early indicator of future obesity risk, and new mothers‚ postpartum weight retention, a contributor to intergenerational obesity transmission.
Duration: 2022 - 2027
Partners: Uniformed Services University, Nellis Air Force Base, Elgin Air Force Base, Madigan Army Medical Center
Mark E. Feinberg (PI) Research Professor
Paul Crawford (PI) Professor and Director of Military Primary Care Research Network Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Project Focus Area(s)
Level(s) of Analysis
Overview
The proposed study will test the efficacy of a family-focused preventive intervention in improving healthy lifestyles among first-time parents in military families and reducing obesity risk among their infants.
Project Goals
The ultimate goals of the intervention are to reduce rapid infant weight gain, an early indicator of future obesity risk, and new mothers‚ postpartum weight retention, a contributor to intergenerational obesity transmission.
Project Focus Area(s)
Level(s) of Analysis
Partners
Uniformed Services University, Nellis Air Force Base, Elgin Air Force Base, Madigan Army Medical Center
Duration
2022 - 2027
Project Team
- Mark E. Feinberg (PI)
Research Professor
- Paul Crawford (PI) Professor and Director of Military Primary Care Research Network Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Damon Jones (Co-I) Research Professor, Health and Human Development
Stephanie Anzman-Frasca (Co-I) Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Project Team
- Mark E. Feinberg (PI)
Research Professor
- Paul Crawford (PI) Professor and Director of Military Primary Care Research Network Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
- Damon Jones (Co-I)
Research Professor, Health and Human Development
- Stephanie Anzman-Frasca (Co-I)
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
