O'Connor, T. M., Mâsse, L. C., Tu, A. W., Watts, A. W., Hughes, S. O., Beauchamp, M. R., Baranowski, T., Pham, T., Berge, J. M., Fiese, B., Golley, R., Hingle, M., Kremers, S. P., Rhee, K. E., Skouteris, H., & Vaughn, A. (2017). Food parenting practices for 5 to 12 year old children: a concept map analysis of parenting and nutrition experts input. The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity, 14(1), 122.
Parents are an important influence on children's dietary intake and eating behaviors. However, the lack of a conceptual framework and inconsistent assessment of food parenting practices limits our understanding of which food parenting practices are most influential on children. The aim of this study was to develop a food parenting practice conceptual framework using systematic approaches of literature reviews and expert input.
Hingle, M. D., Wertheim, B. C., Tindle, H. A., Tinker, L., Seguin, R. A., Rosal, M. C., & Thomson, C. A. (2014). Optimism and diet quality in the Women's Health Initiative. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 114(7), 1036-45.
Diet quality has not been well studied in relation to positive psychological traits. Our purpose was to investigate the relationship between optimism and diet quality in postmenopausal women enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative observational study (OS) and clinical trials (CTs), and to determine whether optimism was associated with diet change after a 1-year dietary intervention. Diet quality was scored with the Alternate Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) and optimism assessed with the Life Orientation Test-Revised. Baseline characteristics were compared across AHEI quintiles or optimism tertiles using regression models with each variable of interest as a function of quintiles or tertiles (OS, n=87,630; CT, n=65,360). Association between optimism and baseline AHEI and change in AHEI over 1 year were tested using multivariate linear regression (CT, n=13,645). Potential interaction between optimism and trial arm and demographic/lifestyle factors on AHEI change was tested using likelihood ratio test (CT intervention, n=13,645; CT control, n=20,242). Women reporting high AHEI were non-Hispanic white, educated, physically active, past or never smokers, hormone therapy users, had lower body mass index and waist circumference, and were less likely to have chronic conditions. In the CT intervention, higher optimism was associated with higher AHEI at baseline and with greater change over 1 year (P=0.001). Effect modification by intervention status was observed (P=0.014), whereas control participants with highest optimism achieved threefold greater AHEI increase compared with those with the lowest optimism. These data support a relationship between optimism and dietary quality score in postmenopausal women at baseline and over 1 year.
Thomson, C. A., Thomson, C. A., Crane, T. E., Crane, T. E., Garcia, D. O., Garcia, D. O., Wertheim, B., Wertheim, B., Hingle, M. D., Hingle, M. D., Snetsellar, L., Snetsellar, L., Datta, M., Datta, M., Rohan, T., Rohan, T., LeBlanc, E., LeBlanc, E., Chlebowski, R., , Chlebowski, R., et al. (2016). Association between dietary energy density and obesity-associated cancer: Results from the Women's Health Initiative. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Abbate, K. J., Hingle, M. D., Armin, J., Giacobbi, P., & Gordon, J. S. (2017). Recruiting Women to a Mobile Health Smoking Cessation Trial: Low- and No-Cost Strategies. JMIR research protocols, 6(11), e219.
Successful recruitment of participants to mobile health (mHealth) studies presents unique challenges over in-person studies. It is important to identify recruitment strategies that maximize the limited recruitment resources available to researchers.
Howard, B. V., Aragaki, A. K., Tinker, L. F., Allison, M., Hingle, M. D., Johnson, K. C., Manson, J. E., Shadyab, A. H., Shikany, J. M., Snetselaar, L. G., Thomson, C. A., Zaslavsky, O., & Prentice, R. L. (2017). A Low-Fat Dietary Pattern and Diabetes: A Secondary Analysis From the Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial. Diabetes care.
We performed a secondary analysis to evaluate the effect of the Women's Health Initiative dietary intervention on incident diabetes and diabetes treatment in postmenopausal women.
