L A Baur
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1868880 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | L A Baur |
| NOMBRES | L A |
| APELLIDO | Baur |
| FIRMA | BAUR L A |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4521-9482 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Responsive feeding practices among Arabic and Mongolian speaking migrant mothers in Australia
Establishing healthy feeding habits during infancy is crucial for optimal growth. However, certain parental feeding and cultural practices might hinder the development of children's healthy eating behaviours. This research explored responsive feeding practices among migrant mothers in Australia. Semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted in their native language with 20 Arabic and 20 Mongolian-speaking migrant mothers with children under…
Mothers' sociodemographic factors and use of health professionals for child feeding advice
This study examined sociodemographic factors associated with mothers seeking child feeding advice from health professionals (HPs). Cross-sectional analysis of survey data from linked randomized controlled trials was conducted. Surveys asked which sources of feeding information mothers used when their child was 6 months and 5 years old. Logistic regression was used to examine associations between sociodemographic characteristics and use of informa…
Associations of dietary and sedentary behaviours of pregnant women with their children’s birth weight
Objective: To examine the associations of pregnant women’s dietary and sedentary behaviours with their children’s birth weight. Design: Secondary data analysis was conducted using data from a randomised controlled trial, Communicating Healthy Beginnings Advice by Telephone, conducted in Australia. Information on mothers’ socio-demographics, dietary and sedentary behaviours during pregnancy was collected by telephone survey at the third trimester.…
Obesity in children and adolescents
Australian State and Territory Eclectic Approaches to Obesity Prevention in the Early Years
Background: The international increase in the prevalence of childhood obesity has hastened in recent decades. This rise has coincided with the emergence of comorbidities in childhood-such as type II diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, metabolic syndrome, sleep apnoea and hypertension-formerly only described in adulthood. This phenomenon suggests global social and economic trends are impacting on health supportive environments. Obesity pr…
Demographic Predictors of Mothers' Willingness to Vaccinate Young Children Against Covid-19, Get Tested and Isolate
Background and Objectives: Having a COVID-19 vaccination, getting tested, and self-isolating if symptomatic are some of the most important mitigation strategies for preventing the spread of COVID-19. This study aimed to investigate whether demographic factors are associated with mothers' willingness to vaccinate their 4-year-old children against COVID-19 if a suitable vaccine becomes available or to get tested and self-isolate if they themselves …
Protocol for a randomised controlled trial of a family strengthening program to prevent unhealthy weight gain among 5 to 11-year-old children from at-risk families
This study is registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ( ACTRN12619001019190 ). Registered 16 July 2019
The Adaptation of a Youth Diabetes Prevention Program for Aboriginal Children in Central Australia
This study reports on integrating community perspectives to adapt a family-focused, culturally appropriate behavioural intervention program to prevent diabetes among Aboriginal children (6-11 years) in Central Australia. A participatory action research approach was used to engage a range of service providers, cultural advisors, and family groups. Appropriateness, acceptability, content, and delivery of a prevention program within the Central Aust…
The process of culturally adapting the Healthy Beginnings early obesity prevention program for Arabic and Chinese mothers in Australia
This cultural adaptation of Healthy Beginnings followed an established process model and resulted in a program with enhanced relevance and accessibility among Arabic and Chinese speaking migrant mothers. This work will inform the future cultural adaptation stages: testing, refining, and trialling the culturally adapted Healthy Beginnings program to assess acceptability, feasibility and effectiveness
Feasibility of a culturally adapted early childhood obesity prevention program among migrant mothers in Australia
The culturally adapted Healthy Beginnings program was feasible to deliver and acceptable to Arabic- and Chinese-speaking mothers. Our results highlight the importance of in-language resources and individualised bi-cultural nurse support by telephone for supporting culturally and linguistically diverse migrant families with infant feeding and active play. These findings support the potential for program refinements and progression to an effectiven…
Early mother-child dyadic pathways to childhood obesity risk
Skin Conductance Responses Indicate Children are Physiologically Aroused by Their Favourite Branded Food and Drink Products
Children's favourite food and beverage brands use various tactics to foster positive associations and loyalty. This brand-consumer dynamic is frequently influenced by the use of implicit techniques and emotional appeals. Few studies have used physiological methods to examine the connections that brands build with children and the influence this has on their automatic responses. These techniques are potentially less prone to bias than behavioural …
Linking two randomised controlled trials for Healthy Beginnings©
The trial was registered with the Australian Clinical Trial Registry ( ACTRN12618001571268 ) on 20/09/2018
Is there an association between early weight status and utility-based health-related quality of life in young children
CHild and Adolescent Health Pathways study
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Children's self-regulation of eating provides no defense against television and online food marketing
Food choices made by primary carers (mothers/ grandmothers) in West Java, Indonesia
Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015
BACKGROUND: Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of, and number of people with, raised blood pressure, defined as systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm Hg or higher. METHODS: For this analysis, we pooled national, subnational, or comm…
Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016
BACKGROUND: Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare trends with those of adults. METHODS: We pooled 2416 population-based studies with measurements of height…
A 3-Arm randomised controlled trial of Communicating Healthy Beginnings Advice by Telephone (CHAT) to mothers with infants to prevent childhood obesity
The CHAT Trial is registered with the Australian Clinical Trial Registry ( ACTRN12616001470482p ). It was registered on October 21, 2016
Cross-sectional and prospective mediating effects of dietary intake on the relationship between sedentary behaviour and body mass index in adolescents
TV viewing, total sedentary time and bouts of sedentary time were not associated cross-sectionally or prospectively with adolescents' zBMI, and three elements of dietary intake (e.g. intake of discretionary foods, SSB and takeaway foods) did not mediate this relationship. The role of dietary intake and sedentary behaviour in relation to adolescent health requires further clarification
Demographic Predictors of Family Functioning and Its Change Over the First 5 Years Postpartum
There are very few longitudinal studies examining family functioning in early childhood. This was a prospective cohort study to identify maternal sociodemographic factors associated with family functioning over the first 5 years postpartum, using data from the Healthy Beginnings Trial. Family functioning was measured using the General Functioning Subscale of the McMaster Family Assessment Device. A total of 667 first-time mothers participated, of…
Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980
BACKGROUND: One of the global targets for non-communicable diseases is to halt, by 2025, the rise in the age-standardised adult prevalence of diabetes at its 2010 levels. We aimed to estimate worldwide trends in diabetes, how likely it is for countries to achieve the global target, and how changes in prevalence, together with population growth and ageing, are affecting the number of adults with diabetes. METHODS: We pooled data from population-ba…
The normative power of food promotions
Objective The formation of food brand associations and attachment is fundamental to brand preferences, which influence purchases and consumption. Food promotions operate through a cascade of links, from brand recognition, to affect, and on to consumption. Frequent exposures to product promotions may establish social norms for products, reinforcing brand affect. These pathways signify potential mechanisms for how children’s exposure to unhealthy f…
Stunting coexisting with overweight in 2·0–4·9-year-old Indonesian children
Objective The persistence of undernutrition, along with overweight and obesity, constitute the double burden of malnutrition. The present study aimed to: (i) describe the prevalence and trends of concurrent stunting and overweight in Indonesian children; (ii) identify potentially associated risk factors; and (iii) determine whether stunted children are at greater risk of overweight compared with those of healthy height. Design A secondary data an…
A Hierarchy of Unhealthy Food Promotion Effects
We assessed the evidence for a conceptual “hierarchy of effects” of marketing, to guide understanding of the relationship between children’s exposure to unhealthy food marketing and poor diets and overweight, and drive the research agenda. We reviewed studies assessing the impact of food promotions on children from MEDLINE, Web of Science, ABI Inform, World Health Organization library database, and The Gray Literature Report. We included articles…
Digital Junk
Objectives. We assessed the amount, reach, and nature of energy-dense, nutrient-poor (EDNP) food and beverage marketing on Facebook. Methods. We conducted a content analysis of the marketing techniques used by the 27 most popular food and beverage brand Facebook pages in Australia. We coded content across 19 marketing categories; data were collected from the day each page launched (mean = 3.65 years of activity per page). Results. We analyzed 13 …
Association between food marketing exposure and adolescents’ food choices and eating behaviors
Evidence, Ethics, and Values
We propose a new approach to guide health promotion practice. Health promotion should draw on 2 related systems of reasoning: an evidential system and an ethical system. Further, there are concepts, values, and procedures inherent in both health promotion evidence and ethics, and these should be made explicit. We illustrate our approach with the exemplar of intervention in weight, and use a specific mass-media campaign to show the real-world dang…
Children's self-regulation of eating provides no defense against television and online food marketing
Mutually Responsive Orientation
Predictors of time spent outdoors among children
BACKGROUND: Given the importance of physical activity for health and age-related declines in physical activity, understanding influences on related behaviours, such as time outdoors, is crucial. This study aimed to understand individual, social and physical environmental influences on longitudinal changes in urban children's time outdoors. METHODS: The time children spent outdoors in 2001, 2004 and 2006 (aged 5-6 and 10-12 years at baseline) was …
Parenting style and dietary behaviour of young children. Findings from the Healthy Beginnings Trial
Early mother-child dyadic pathways to childhood obesity risk
Monitoring Evaluation of a Paediatrics and Child Health Course
Although questionnaire rating scales are a commonly used method of course evaluation in higher education they have several limitations. When a course remains unchanged, despite student feedback, both students and teachers may see evaluation as a pointless exercise. In comparison to questionnaires, focus group methods are increasingly being used in health and educational programme evaluation. This paper reports on an evaluation process in a new un…
The use of body mass index to predict body composition in children
We have shown that the use of BMI to predict fat mass/height(2), and consequently percentage body fat, is superior to the use of BMI to predict percentage body fat based directly upon the R(2) values of the above analysis
Obesity in children and young people
Ten per cent of the world's school-aged children are estimated to be carrying excess body fat (Fig. 1), with an increased risk for developing chronic disease. Of these overweight children, a quarter are obese, with a significant likelihood of some having multiple risk factors for type 2 diabetes, heart disease and a variety of other co-morbidities before or during early adulthood. The prevalence of overweight is dramatically higher in economicall…
How Do Perceptions of Local Neighborhood Relate to Adolescents' Walking and Cycling?
PURPOSE: To examine how perceptions of the local neighborhood relate to adolescents' walking and cycling. DESIGN: Exploratory cross-sectional study. SETTING: Birth cohort from the Nepean Hospital, Sydney, Australia. SUBJECTS: Three hundred forty-seven adolescents (79.1% response rate; 49.6% boys; mean age = 13.0 +/- 0.2 years) and their parents. MEASURES: Self-report and parental-report questionnaires. RESULTS: Multiple linear regressions, adjust…
Personal, Family, Social, and Environmental Correlates of Active Commuting to School
Associations Between the Home Food Environment and Obesity‐promoting Eating Behaviors in Adolescence
Objective: This study examines relationships between multiple aspects of the home food environment and obesity‐promoting characteristics of 12‐ to 13‐year‐old adolescents' diets, specifically frequency of consumption of high‐energy fluids, sweet snacks, savory snacks, and take‐out foods. Research Methods: This was a cross‐sectional study including 347 adolescents 12 to 13 years of age and their parents. Data were collected via self‐completed surv…
The Hikcups trial
Importantly this paper describes how HIKCUPS addresses some of the short falls in the current literature pertaining to the efficacy of child obesity interventions. The HIKCUPS trial is funded by the National Medical Research Council, Australia
Early intervention of multiple home visits to prevent childhood obesity in a disadvantaged population
The results of this trial will ascertain whether the home based early intervention is effective in preventing the early onset of childhood overweight and obesity. If proved to be effective, it will result in a series of recommendations for policy and practical methods for promoting healthy feeding and physical activity of children in the first two years of life with particular application to families who are socially and economically disadvantage…
Sydney Principles’ for reducing the commercial promotion of foods and beverages to children
A set of seven principles (the ‘Sydney Principles’) was developed by an International Obesity Taskforce (IOTF) Working Group to guide action on changing food and beverage marketing practices that target children. The aim of the present communication is to present the Sydney Principles and report on feedback received from a global consultation (November 2006 to April 2007) on the Principles. The Principles state that actions to reduce marketing to…
General Practice Management of Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents in Australia
BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity is rapidly increasing in prevalence worldwide, but healthcare capacity to address this problem seems limited. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence and rate of management of childhood overweight and obesity in Australian general practice. SUBJECTS: A cross-sectional study consisting of 3978 general practitioners (GPs), randomly selected using Medicare Australia claims, who recorded 42,51…
A randomised controlled trial of a community-based healthy lifestyle program for overweight and obese adolescents
The protocol for this study is registered with the Australian Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRNO12606000175572)
Researching Effective Strategies to Improve Insulin Sensitivity in Children and Teenagers - Resist. A randomised control trial investigating the effects of two different diets on insulin sensitivity i…
Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registration Number ACTRN12608000416392
Predictors of time spent outdoors among children
BACKGROUND: Given the importance of physical activity for health and age-related declines in physical activity, understanding influences on related behaviours, such as time outdoors, is crucial. This study aimed to understand individual, social and physical environmental influences on longitudinal changes in urban children's time outdoors. METHODS: The time children spent outdoors in 2001, 2004 and 2006 (aged 5-6 and 10-12 years at baseline) was …
Food and drink sponsorship of children's sport in Australia
The creation of health promoting sports clubs may support the promotion and adoption of healthy behaviours by children. Sponsorship is one aspect of clubs, with potential influence on clubs and their participants. In particular, sponsorship influences brand awareness and attitudes, so that the sponsorship of children's sport by unhealthy food companies may contribute to food preferences and poor eating habits. This study aimed to determine the na…
The sydney playground project
Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registration Number ACTRN12611000089932
Evidence, Ethics, and Values
We propose a new approach to guide health promotion practice. Health promotion should draw on 2 related systems of reasoning: an evidential system and an ethical system. Further, there are concepts, values, and procedures inherent in both health promotion evidence and ethics, and these should be made explicit. We illustrate our approach with the exemplar of intervention in weight, and use a specific mass-media campaign to show the real-world dang…
Smoking Status and Factors Associated with Smoking of First-Time Mothers During Pregnancy and Postpartum
Relationship between breast-feeding and adiposity in infants and pre-school children
Objectives We aimed to establish associations of duration of breast-feeding with mean BMI and waist circumference, as well as the likelihood of being overweight/obese, during early childhood. Design Cross-sectional, population-based study. Height, weight and waist circumference were measured and BMI calculated. Interviewer-administered questionnaire determined whether the child was ever breast-fed and the duration of breast-feeding. Setting Sydne…
Association between food marketing exposure and adolescents’ food choices and eating behaviors
Views of children and parents on limiting unhealthy food, drink and alcohol sponsorship of elite and children's sports
Objective To determine parents’ and children's attitudes towards food, beverage and alcohol sponsorship of elite and children's sports and the acceptability of policies and alternative funding models to limit this sponsorship. Design Telephone surveys were conducted with parents in February–May 2011. One child from each household was invited to complete an online survey. Surveys assessed parents’ perceptions about the influence of sponsorship on …
Parenting style and dietary behaviour of young children. Findings from the Healthy Beginnings Trial
Reliability and validity of a short FFQ for assessing the dietary habits of 2–5-year-old children, Sydney, Australia
Objective A simple FFQ which ranks young children's dietary habits is necessary for population-based monitoring and intervention programmes. The aim of the present study was to determine the reliability and validity of a short FFQ to assess the dietary habits of young children aged 2–5 years. Design Parents completed a seventeen-item FFQ for their children by telephone on two occasions, two weeks apart. Sixty-four parents also completed 3 d food …
Socio-economic disparities in Australian adolescents’ eating behaviours
Objective To assess the association between socio-economic position (SEP) and poor eating behaviours in a large representative sample of Australian secondary-school students. Design Cross-sectional survey of students’ vegetable, fruit, sugar-sweetened beverage and fast-food consumption assessed using validated instruments and collected via a web-based self-report format. Setting Secondary schools across all Australian states and territories. Subj…
High prevalence of overweight and obesity among inner city Chinese children in Shanghai, 2011
The high prevalence of combined overweight and obesity among urban Chinese youth, especially among boys, requires immediate health promotion intervention
Digital Junk
Objectives. We assessed the amount, reach, and nature of energy-dense, nutrient-poor (EDNP) food and beverage marketing on Facebook. Methods. We conducted a content analysis of the marketing techniques used by the 27 most popular food and beverage brand Facebook pages in Australia. We coded content across 19 marketing categories; data were collected from the day each page launched (mean = 3.65 years of activity per page). Results. We analyzed 13 …
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