Karen W Cullen

Biographic Data

ID6074754
NAMEKaren W Cullen
GIVEN NAMESKaren W
FAMILY NAMECullen
SIGNATURECULLEN K W
AFFILIATIONSThe authors are with the Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA/ARS), Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX1

  • Perspectives on Barriers to Eating Healthy Among Food Pantry Clients

    Open AccessJayna M Dave, Deborah I Thompson et al.ARTICLEHealth Equity2017

    Objective: To explore perspectives on barriers of eating healthy among food pantry clients. Methods: Food pantry clients participated in focus groups/interviews. Qualitative data were coded and analyzed using content analyses and grounded theory approach. Themes were then identified. Quantitative data were analyzed for frequencies and descriptives. Results: Fifty-four clients from 10 pantries participated in interviews/focus groups and completed …

  • Texting to Increase Adolescent Physical Activity

    Debbe Thompson, D Antonio Cantu et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Health Behavior2016

    An intervention consisting of pedometers, theory-informed texts, and goal prompts, is a feasible and acceptable method for promoting physical activity to adolescents

  • A randomized controlled trial to prevent childhood obesity through early childhood feeding and parenting guidance

    Open AccessElizabeth Reifsnider, David P McCormick et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2013

    Clinical Trials Number: NCT01905072

  • Middle-school students’ school lunch consumption does not meet the new Institute of Medicine's National School Lunch Program recommendations

    Open AccessKaren W Cullen, Karen Cullen et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2011

    Objective To compare the school lunch consumption of Texas middle-school students with the 2009 Institute of Medicine's (IOM) school meal report recommendations. These new lunch menu patterns increase fruit to one serving and vegetables to two servings, with 50 % wholegrain food. Design Lunch food records were collected from middle-school students from four schools in south-east Texas in the spring of 2008, and entered into the Nutrition Data Sys…

  • The Impact of the Texas Public School Nutrition Policy on Student Food Selection and Sales in Texas

    Karen W Cullen, Karen Cullen et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2009References: 16

    Objectives. We assessed the statewide impact of the 2004 Texas Public School Nutrition Policy on foods and beverages served or sold in schools. Methods. We collected lunch food production records from 47 schools in 11 Texas school districts for the school years before (2003–2004) and after (2004–2005) policy implementation. Cafeteria servings of fruit, vegetables (regular and fried), and milk served each day were calculated. Twenty-three schools …

  • Measures of self-efficacy and norms for low-fat milk consumption are reliable and related to beverage consumption among 5th graders at school lunch

    Open AccessVictoria J Thompson, Christine Bachman et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2008

    Objective To determine the reliability and validity of scales measuring low-fat milk consumption self-efficacy and norms during school lunch among a cohort of 5th graders. Design Two hundred and seventy-five students completed lunch food records and a psychosocial questionnaire measuring self-efficacy and norms for school lunch low-fat milk consumption during the fall and spring semesters of the 1998–1999 academic year. Test–retest reliability wa…

  • Squire's quest

    Open AccessKaren W Cullen, Karen Cullen et al.ARTICLEAppetite2005Cited by: 1References: 12

  • Are Current Health Behavioral Change Models Helpful in Guiding Prevention of Weight Gain Efforts?

    Open AccessTom Baranowski, Karen W Cullen et al.ARTICLEObesity Research2003

    Effective procedures are needed to prevent the substantial increases in adiposity that have been occurring among children and adults. Behavioral change may occur as a result of changes in variables that mediate interventions. These mediating variables have typically come from the theories or models used to understand behavior. Seven categories of theories and models are reviewed to define the concepts and to identify the motivational mechanism(s)…

  • Misclassification associated with measurement error in the assessment of dietary intake

    Open AccessCarl de Moor, Tom Baranowski et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2003

    Objective: Dietary assessment has been used for certification to receive food supplements or other nutrition services and to provide feedback for educational purposes. The proportion of individuals correctly certified as eligible is a function of the amount of error that exists in the dietary measures and the level of dietary intake used to establish eligibility. Whether individuals are correctly counselled to increase or decrease the consumption…

  • Eating Patterns, Dietary Quality and Obesity

    Theresa A Nicklas, Tom Baranowski et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American College…2001

    Obesity among children has reached epidemic proportions. Today, an estimated one in four children in the United States is overweight. while 11% arc obese. Children who are overweight tend to remain so up to 20 years of age; in general, they have a 1.5- to twofold higher risk for becoming overweight as adults. The prevalence of overweight has increased approximately twofold in the 20-year period from 1974 to 1994, with the largest increases observ…