{"id":101,"date":"2016-05-07T18:56:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T22:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/?page_id=101"},"modified":"2017-05-10T16:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T20:00:01","slug":"kidsteps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/child-health-promotion-research\/kidsteps\/","title":{"rendered":"KidSTEPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/nutritionalepilab\/files\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-11.38.53-AM-636x537.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-01-19 at 11.38.53 AM\" width=\"252\" height=\"213\" class=\"wp-image-151 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/files\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-11.38.53-AM-636x537.png 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/files\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-11.38.53-AM-768x648.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/files\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-11.38.53-AM.png 976w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/>Funded by the Dudley Allen Sargent Research Fund at BU\u2019s Sargent College, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/dr-quatromonis-kidsteps-publication\/\" target=\"_blank\">KidSTEPS<\/a> project was an observational pilot study representing Dr. Quatromoni\u2019s first engagement with children in epidemiologic research. As such, it was designed to better understand the validity and utility of diet and physical activity assessment tools for use in research with youth\/adolescent populations. Building on over a decade of research\u00a0experience\u00a0working in dietary assessment and epidemiology in adult populations through her work on the\u00a0Framingham Heart Study, the KidSTEPS pilot project yielded valuable information on diet and physical activity behaviors of school-age children that allowed <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/nutritionalepilab\/files\/2017\/01\/Picture1-636x456.png\" alt=\"Picture1\" width=\"289\" height=\"207\" class=\"wp-image-148 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/files\/2017\/01\/Picture1-636x456.png 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/files\/2017\/01\/Picture1-768x550.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/files\/2017\/01\/Picture1-1024x734.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/files\/2017\/01\/Picture1.png 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/>Dr. Quatromoni to extend her research program into the field of school based health promotion and childhood obesity prevention.<\/p>\n<p>The Specific Aim of this observational pilot study was to determine the feasibility of assessing lifestyle behaviors among school-age children using multiple behavioral assessment tools to measure eating behaviors and physical activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funded by the Dudley Allen Sargent Research Fund at BU\u2019s Sargent College, the KidSTEPS project was an observational pilot study representing Dr. Quatromoni\u2019s first engagement with children in epidemiologic research. As such, it was designed to better understand the validity and utility of diet and physical activity assessment tools for use in research with youth\/adolescent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11556,"featured_media":0,"parent":256,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions\/630"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}