Dipti Dev

Biographic Data

ID6070171
NAMEDipti Dev
GIVEN NAMESDipti
FAMILY NAMEDev
SIGNATUREDEV D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Nebraska–Lincoln
ORCID0009-0007-7137-0956
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS10
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Health equity in Nebraska

    Open AccessChangmin Yan, Michelle Hughes et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    This policy paper examines persistent health disparities in Nebraska, drawing on insights from a symposium that engaged more than 180 health professionals and organizational leaders statewide. Nebraska’s dual burden of rural provider shortages and urban socioeconomic inequities highlights the need for place-based policy solutions tailored to diverse regional drivers of health disparities—an approach that can be adapted by other states facing simi…

  • Engaging with health programming in head start

    Open AccessDara Forrest, Amy Lee et al.ARTICLEJournal of Early Childhood Research2023References: 3

    The purpose of this study was to explore parents’ common experiences with healthy eating and physical activity-focused (HE-PA) programming in one Head Start (HS) program (two centers) in eastern North Carolina (NC). Researchers conducted 13 in-depth semi-structured telephone interviews November 2017–May 2018. Participants were parents of preschool children (4–5 years) enrolled in HS. Interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim. Phenomenolog…

  • Associations between Community Built Environments with Early Care and Education Classroom Physical Activity Practices and Barriers

    Open AccessBethany D Williams, Susan B Sisson et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    The influence of community-built environments on physical activity (PA) support in Early Childhood Education settings (ECEs) is unknown. The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to determine associations between community PA environments and ECE classroom PA practices. We included licensed Oklahoma ECE directors serving 3-to-5-year-old children. Parks and playground locations were exported from Google Earth. National Walkability Index was de…

  • Improving Breastfeeding Environments and Feeding Practices in Family Child Care Homes with the Go NAP Sacc Program

    Open AccessKara Kohel, Holly Hatton-Bowers et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2021

  • Eastern North Carolina Head Start Teachers’ personal and professional experiences with healthy eating and physical activity

    Open AccessVirginia Carraway-Stage, Lorelei Jones et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2021

    Objective: Explore the interrelationship between teachers’ personal and professional socio-ecological structures while examining Head Start (HS) teachers’ experiences with (1) trying to eat healthy and engage in physical activity (PA) and (2) promote healthy eating and PA in their classrooms. Design: In-depth semi-structured interviews were collected from March through June 2017. Researchers designed the data collection and analysis methods using…

  • A Safety Net Unraveling

    Katherine W Bauer, Jamie F Chriqui et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2021Cited by: 7References: 10

    The emergence of COVID-19 in the United States led most states to close or severely limit the capacity of their early child-care and education (ECE) programs. This loss affected millions of young children, including many of the 4.6 million low-income children who are provided free meals and snacks by their ECE programs through support from the federal Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). Although Congress swiftly authorized waivers that wou…

  • Comparison of Urban and Rural Physical Activity and Outdoor Play Environments of Childcare Centers and Family Childcare Homes

    Danae Dinkel, Dipti Dev et al.ARTICLEFamily & Community Health2020

    The purpose of this study was to examine the physical activity environment in childcare programs across type (childcare centers [CCCs] and family childcare homes [FCCHs]) and geographic location (urban and rural) as assessed by physical activity best practices according to the Go Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-assessment in Child Care. Results showed CCCs compared with FCCHs reported higher achievement of best practices. Further, urban chil…

  • The perception of school food-service professionals on the implementation of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010

    Open AccessZainab Rida, Elisha Hall et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2019

    Objective To: (i) understand the nutrition attitudes, self-efficacy, knowledge and practices of school food-service personnel (SFP) in Nebraska and (ii) identify potential barriers that schools face in offering healthy school meals that meet the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) nutrition standards. Design Convergent parallel mixed-methods study. Setting Kindergarten–12th grade schools in Nebraska, USA. Participants SFP (260 survey participants…

  • Comparison of Parent and Child Ratings of Fruit and Vegetable Liking to Assess Parent Accuracy as Proxy Reporters

    Virginia C Stage, Virginia Carraway-Stage et al.ARTICLEEcology of Food and Nutrition2019

    This study examined the accuracy of parent-report child fruit/vegetable (FV) liking. Child/parent dyads (n = 24) were recruited from six Head Start preschools in North Carolina. Liking for 10 FVs was assessed using a validated pictorial tool for children; a similar scale was used for parents. Negative relationships were observed between parent/child for one fruit (grapes) and one vegetable (broccoli). Positive relationships were observed among or…

  • Role of food preoccupation and current dieting in the associations of parental feeding practices to emotional eating in young adults

    Open AccessNatalie A Williams, Dipti Dev et al.ARTICLEAppetite2017Cited by: 3References: 37