William J Heerman

• Associations Between Gestational Weight Gain, Gestational Diabetes, and Childhood Obesity Incidence

  Open Access•Nadia M Sneed, William J Heerman et al.•ARTICLE•Maternal and Child Health Journal•2023

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• Relational approaches to community-based health promotion across scales of practice

  Leah A P Teeters, Leah Anne Teeters et al.•ARTICLE•Mind Culture and Activity•2021

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  In this article, we describe a personalized approach to meeting individual and community health needs that foregrounds relational learning. This article analyzes how relational approaches to learning expand participants' objectives and result in more enduring learning. We report on mixed methods data from interviews, focus groups, surveys, and goal setting and monitoring. Analyses reveal that relationships de confianza served as a central tool in…

• Assessing the scale and spread of an experiential teaching kitchen in after-school programming among school-age children

  Open Access•William J Heerman, Yasmeen Elsakary et al.•ARTICLE•Public Health Nutrition•2021

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  Objective: To scale-out an experiential teaching kitchen in Parks and Recreation centres’ after-school programming in a large urban setting among predominantly low-income, minority children. Design: We evaluated the implementation of a skills-based, experiential teaching kitchen to gauge programme success. Effectiveness outcomes included pre–post measures of child-reported cooking self-efficacy, attitudes towards cooking, fruit and vegetable pref…

• Evaluating dose delivered of a behavioral intervention for childhood obesity prevention

  Open Access•William J Heerman, Evan C Sommer et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2020

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  The trial was registered on ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01316653) on March 16, 2011, which was prior to participant enrollment

• The Effect of a General Healthy Lifestyle Intervention Delivered Around Pregnancy on Gestational Weight Gain and Infant Growth

  Open Access•William J Heerman, Lauren R Samuels et al.•ARTICLE•Maternal and Child Health Journal•2020

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• Scale-out of a community-based behavioral intervention for childhood obesity

  Open Access•William J Heerman, David Schludnt et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2018

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  This pilot is among the first attempts to scale-out an evidence-based childhood obesity intervention in community Parks and Recreation centers. While this pilot was not intended to confirm the efficacy of the original trial on Body Mass Index (BMI) reduction, the effective and sustained behavior change among a geographically and ethnically diverse population with high attendance and fidelity demonstrates an effective approach on which to base fut…

• Parenting Self-Efficacy, Parent Depression, and Healthy Childhood Behaviors in a Low-Income Minority Population

  Open Access•William J Heerman, Julie Lounds Taylor et al.•ARTICLE•Maternal and Child Health Journal•2017

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• Beyond the dinner table

  Open Access•Jerica M Berge, Kimberly P Truesdale et al.•ARTICLE•Public Health Nutrition•2017

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  Objective Having frequent family dinners is associated with better diet quality in children; however, it is unknown whether the frequency of certain family meal types (i.e. dinner) is more strongly associated with better child weight and diet quality compared with other meal types (i.e. breakfast, lunch). Thus, the current study examined the frequency of eating breakfast, lunch or dinner family meals and associations with pre-school children’s ov…

• Parental perception of built environment characteristics and built environment use among Latino families

  Open Access•William J Heerman, Stephanie J Mitchell et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2016

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  Registered at ClinicalTrials.gov ( NCT01316653 ) on March 11, 2011

• Parental perception of built environment characteristics and built environment use among Latino families

  Open Access•William J Heerman, Stephanie J Mitchell et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2016

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  Registered at ClinicalTrials.gov ( NCT01316653 ) on March 11, 2011

• Parenting Self-Efficacy, Parent Depression, and Healthy Childhood Behaviors in a Low-Income Minority Population

  Open Access•William J Heerman, Julie Lounds Taylor et al.•ARTICLE•Maternal and Child Health Journal•2017

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• Beyond the dinner table

  Open Access•Jerica M Berge, Kimberly P Truesdale et al.•ARTICLE•Public Health Nutrition•2017

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  Objective Having frequent family dinners is associated with better diet quality in children; however, it is unknown whether the frequency of certain family meal types (i.e. dinner) is more strongly associated with better child weight and diet quality compared with other meal types (i.e. breakfast, lunch). Thus, the current study examined the frequency of eating breakfast, lunch or dinner family meals and associations with pre-school children’s ov…

• Scale-out of a community-based behavioral intervention for childhood obesity

  Open Access•William J Heerman, David Schludnt et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2018

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  This pilot is among the first attempts to scale-out an evidence-based childhood obesity intervention in community Parks and Recreation centers. While this pilot was not intended to confirm the efficacy of the original trial on Body Mass Index (BMI) reduction, the effective and sustained behavior change among a geographically and ethnically diverse population with high attendance and fidelity demonstrates an effective approach on which to base fut…

• Evaluating dose delivered of a behavioral intervention for childhood obesity prevention

  Open Access•William J Heerman, Evan C Sommer et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2020

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  The trial was registered on ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01316653) on March 16, 2011, which was prior to participant enrollment

• The Effect of a General Healthy Lifestyle Intervention Delivered Around Pregnancy on Gestational Weight Gain and Infant Growth

  Open Access•William J Heerman, Lauren R Samuels et al.•ARTICLE•Maternal and Child Health Journal•2020

  Incluir item

• Relational approaches to community-based health promotion across scales of practice

  Leah A P Teeters, Leah Anne Teeters et al.•ARTICLE•Mind Culture and Activity•2021

  Incluir item

  In this article, we describe a personalized approach to meeting individual and community health needs that foregrounds relational learning. This article analyzes how relational approaches to learning expand participants' objectives and result in more enduring learning. We report on mixed methods data from interviews, focus groups, surveys, and goal setting and monitoring. Analyses reveal that relationships de confianza served as a central tool in…

• Assessing the scale and spread of an experiential teaching kitchen in after-school programming among school-age children

  Open Access•William J Heerman, Yasmeen Elsakary et al.•ARTICLE•Public Health Nutrition•2021

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  Objective: To scale-out an experiential teaching kitchen in Parks and Recreation centres’ after-school programming in a large urban setting among predominantly low-income, minority children. Design: We evaluated the implementation of a skills-based, experiential teaching kitchen to gauge programme success. Effectiveness outcomes included pre–post measures of child-reported cooking self-efficacy, attitudes towards cooking, fruit and vegetable pref…

• Associations Between Gestational Weight Gain, Gestational Diabetes, and Childhood Obesity Incidence

  Open Access•Nadia M Sneed, William J Heerman et al.•ARTICLE•Maternal and Child Health Journal•2023

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Medicine (9 obras) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (8 obras) · Nursing (5 obras) · Public health (5 obras) · Childhood obesity (4 obras) · Gerontology (4 obras) · Obesity (4 obras) · Overweight (4 obras) · Pediatrics (4 obras) · Psychology (4 obras)