Erin Hennessy
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4781532 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Erin Hennessy |
| NOMBRES | Erin |
| APELLIDO | Hennessy |
| FIRMA | HENNESSY E |
| AFILIACIONES | Tufts University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9464-4947 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Identifying Synergistic Mechanisms of Community-Led Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change for Childhood Obesity Prevention in the Multi-Site Catalyzing Communities Initiative
This evaluation reports how the Catalyzing Communities Initiative, a whole-of-community, multi-site intervention, supported equity-focused policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) changes to prevent childhood obesity in three U.S. communities from 2023 to 2024. We conducted a mixed-methods evaluation using survey data from 35 committee members (multisector representatives selected by local health-promotion leaders) and interviews with 29 committe…
A Scoping Review of Eating Behaviors Associated with Weight Status in Black American Adults
Getting an Active Start
Fundamental movement skills (FMS) and behavioral self-regulation (SR) are important for lifelong physical activity (PA). While physical literacy (PL) mediates child PA, its broader developmental impact in early childhood education (ECE) remains underexplored. The Active Start feasibility study examined a 10-week PL-based intervention's effects on FMS (stationary, locomotion, object control), total motor competency and behavioral SR, as well as se…
The longitudinal association between caregivers' perceived competence and autonomy and children's dietary consumption before and 10 months into the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has been stressful, potentially affecting caregivers' feeding choices. Caregivers play a role in shaping children's diets, yet few studies have explored how their competence and autonomy, defined by the Self-Determination Theory, impact children's diets. We examined the relationship between caregivers' autonomy and competence and their feeding practices before and during the first year of the pandemic. A national convenience…
Implementing a stakeholder-driven community diffusion-informed intervention to create healthier, more equitable systems
This case study describes the application of a theory-informed, stakeholder-driven intervention with a group of 19 multi-sector stakeholders from an existing coalition to promote whole-of-community change that supports childhood obesity prevention. The intervention applied community-based system dynamics to design and implement activities that promoted insights into the systems driving childhood obesity prevalence and helped participants prioriti…
Community coalition efforts to prevent childhood obesity
SUU5 had positive effects on "upstream" drivers of early childhood obesity by increasing knowledge and engagement. These changes partially diffused through networks and may have changed "midstream" community policies, systems, and environments
The impact of a community social marketing campaign on children’s meal orders and consumption
Objective: Restaurants may be important settings for interventions to reduce children’s energy intake. The objective of this study was to test the impact of a parent-focused social marketing campaign to promote healthy children’s meals on calories ordered and consumed by children at quick-service restaurants (QSR). Design: Using a repeated cross-sectional study design, two urban communities were randomised to intervention (IN) v . control (C) con…
Tracing coalition changes in knowledge in and engagement with childhood obesity prevention to improve intervention implementation
The trends in coalition Network A and B's coevolution models may point to context-specific features (e.g., ties among stakeholders) that can be leveraged for better intervention implementation. To that end, examining tie density, average path length, network diameter, and the dynamics of each behavior outcome (i.e., knowledge in and engagement with childhood obesity prevention) may help tailor whole-of-community interventions. Future research sho…
Effect of Incentive Amount on U.S. Adolescents’ Participation in an Accelerometer Data Collection Component of a National Survey
Behavioral research increasingly uses accelerometers to provide objective estimates of physical activity. This study extends research on methods for collecting accelerometer data among youth by examining whether the amount of a monetary incentive affects enrollment and compliance in a mail-based accelerometer study of adolescents. We invited a subset of adolescents in a national web-based study to wear an accelerometer for seven days and return i…
Integrating Complex Systems Methods to Advance Obesity Prevention Intervention Research
Background. Whole-of-community interventions have been recommended and show promise for preventing obesity; however, research to understand the mechanisms underlying their success or failure is lacking. Complex systems approaches may be useful to address this gap. Purpose. To describe the evolution and utilization of qualitative and quantitative complex systems methods to understand and model whole-of-community obesity prevention interventions. A…
Development and testing of a novel survey to assess Stakeholder-driven Community Diffusion of childhood obesity prevention efforts
The survey measures upstream stakeholder properties-social networks, knowledge, and engagement-with good test-retest reliability. Future research related to Stakeholder-driven Community Diffusion should focus on prospective change and survey validation for intervention effectiveness
Emotion suppression, emotional eating, and eating behavior among parent–adolescent dyads
Emotion suppression may lead to ironic increases in emotional experience. More important, suppression is a transactional process, creating stress and disrupting interactions for the suppressor and those in social interactions with individuals who are suppressing emotion. However, no research has examined the behavioral consequences of emotion suppression in close relationships. We examine the possibility that emotion suppression will predict eati…
Providers’ response to child eating behaviors
Low demanding parental feeding style is associated with low consumption of whole grains among children of recent immigrants
Caregiver’s Feeding Styles Questionnaire. Establishing cutoff points
Parent behavior and child weight status among a diverse group of underserved rural families
Validity and reliability of a calcium checklist in early elementary-school children
Objective To create, validate and assess the reliability of a checklist to measure calcium intake in children. Design Calcium intakes from a checklist and parent-assisted 24-h dietary recall were compared. Checklist reliability was assessed separately. Setting After-school programmes in the United States. Subjects Forty-two children (18 males, 24 females, age = 8.0 ± 0.9 years) participated in the validation analysis and 49 children (28 males, 21…
Parent behavior and child weight status among a diverse group of underserved rural families
Caregiver’s Feeding Styles Questionnaire. Establishing cutoff points
Low demanding parental feeding style is associated with low consumption of whole grains among children of recent immigrants
Providers’ response to child eating behaviors
Effect of Incentive Amount on U.S. Adolescents’ Participation in an Accelerometer Data Collection Component of a National Survey
Behavioral research increasingly uses accelerometers to provide objective estimates of physical activity. This study extends research on methods for collecting accelerometer data among youth by examining whether the amount of a monetary incentive affects enrollment and compliance in a mail-based accelerometer study of adolescents. We invited a subset of adolescents in a national web-based study to wear an accelerometer for seven days and return i…
Validity and reliability of a calcium checklist in early elementary-school children
Objective To create, validate and assess the reliability of a checklist to measure calcium intake in children. Design Calcium intakes from a checklist and parent-assisted 24-h dietary recall were compared. Checklist reliability was assessed separately. Setting After-school programmes in the United States. Subjects Forty-two children (18 males, 24 females, age = 8.0 ± 0.9 years) participated in the validation analysis and 49 children (28 males, 21…
Parent behavior and child weight status among a diverse group of underserved rural families
Caregiver’s Feeding Styles Questionnaire. Establishing cutoff points
Low demanding parental feeding style is associated with low consumption of whole grains among children of recent immigrants
Providers’ response to child eating behaviors
Emotion suppression, emotional eating, and eating behavior among parent–adolescent dyads
Emotion suppression may lead to ironic increases in emotional experience. More important, suppression is a transactional process, creating stress and disrupting interactions for the suppressor and those in social interactions with individuals who are suppressing emotion. However, no research has examined the behavioral consequences of emotion suppression in close relationships. We examine the possibility that emotion suppression will predict eati…
Development and testing of a novel survey to assess Stakeholder-driven Community Diffusion of childhood obesity prevention efforts
The survey measures upstream stakeholder properties-social networks, knowledge, and engagement-with good test-retest reliability. Future research related to Stakeholder-driven Community Diffusion should focus on prospective change and survey validation for intervention effectiveness
Integrating Complex Systems Methods to Advance Obesity Prevention Intervention Research
Background. Whole-of-community interventions have been recommended and show promise for preventing obesity; however, research to understand the mechanisms underlying their success or failure is lacking. Complex systems approaches may be useful to address this gap. Purpose. To describe the evolution and utilization of qualitative and quantitative complex systems methods to understand and model whole-of-community obesity prevention interventions. A…
Effect of Incentive Amount on U.S. Adolescents’ Participation in an Accelerometer Data Collection Component of a National Survey
Behavioral research increasingly uses accelerometers to provide objective estimates of physical activity. This study extends research on methods for collecting accelerometer data among youth by examining whether the amount of a monetary incentive affects enrollment and compliance in a mail-based accelerometer study of adolescents. We invited a subset of adolescents in a national web-based study to wear an accelerometer for seven days and return i…
Tracing coalition changes in knowledge in and engagement with childhood obesity prevention to improve intervention implementation
The trends in coalition Network A and B's coevolution models may point to context-specific features (e.g., ties among stakeholders) that can be leveraged for better intervention implementation. To that end, examining tie density, average path length, network diameter, and the dynamics of each behavior outcome (i.e., knowledge in and engagement with childhood obesity prevention) may help tailor whole-of-community interventions. Future research sho…
Implementing a stakeholder-driven community diffusion-informed intervention to create healthier, more equitable systems
This case study describes the application of a theory-informed, stakeholder-driven intervention with a group of 19 multi-sector stakeholders from an existing coalition to promote whole-of-community change that supports childhood obesity prevention. The intervention applied community-based system dynamics to design and implement activities that promoted insights into the systems driving childhood obesity prevalence and helped participants prioriti…
Community coalition efforts to prevent childhood obesity
SUU5 had positive effects on "upstream" drivers of early childhood obesity by increasing knowledge and engagement. These changes partially diffused through networks and may have changed "midstream" community policies, systems, and environments
The impact of a community social marketing campaign on children’s meal orders and consumption
Objective: Restaurants may be important settings for interventions to reduce children’s energy intake. The objective of this study was to test the impact of a parent-focused social marketing campaign to promote healthy children’s meals on calories ordered and consumed by children at quick-service restaurants (QSR). Design: Using a repeated cross-sectional study design, two urban communities were randomised to intervention (IN) v . control (C) con…
The longitudinal association between caregivers' perceived competence and autonomy and children's dietary consumption before and 10 months into the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has been stressful, potentially affecting caregivers' feeding choices. Caregivers play a role in shaping children's diets, yet few studies have explored how their competence and autonomy, defined by the Self-Determination Theory, impact children's diets. We examined the relationship between caregivers' autonomy and competence and their feeding practices before and during the first year of the pandemic. A national convenience…
A Scoping Review of Eating Behaviors Associated with Weight Status in Black American Adults
Getting an Active Start
Fundamental movement skills (FMS) and behavioral self-regulation (SR) are important for lifelong physical activity (PA). While physical literacy (PL) mediates child PA, its broader developmental impact in early childhood education (ECE) remains underexplored. The Active Start feasibility study examined a 10-week PL-based intervention's effects on FMS (stationary, locomotion, object control), total motor competency and behavioral SR, as well as se…
Identifying Synergistic Mechanisms of Community-Led Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change for Childhood Obesity Prevention in the Multi-Site Catalyzing Communities Initiative
This evaluation reports how the Catalyzing Communities Initiative, a whole-of-community, multi-site intervention, supported equity-focused policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) changes to prevent childhood obesity in three U.S. communities from 2023 to 2024. We conducted a mixed-methods evaluation using survey data from 35 committee members (multisector representatives selected by local health-promotion leaders) and interviews with 29 committe…
Psychology (12 obras) · Medicine (11 obras) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (9 obras) · Community Health and Development (6 obras) · Developmental psychology (6 obras) · Health Policy Implementation Science (6 obras) · Nursing (6 obras) · Childhood obesity (5 obras) · Eating Disorders and Behaviors (5 obras) · Obesity (5 obras)