Karen Cullen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6205926 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Cullen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Cullen |
| SIGNATURE | CULLEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5114-6232 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
For the good of the empire, or the relief of the poor? Motivations for British Government Provision of Famine Relief in Scotland, 1783–4
The failure of the grain and potato harvests across much of Britain in 1782 led to the enactment of traditional famine-relief measures across the country to secure sufficient food supply for the population. It has been well established by historians that the British government also allocated £10,000 worth of grain to the north of Scotland to provide additional support. What has been less thoroughly investigated is why. This article examines the m…
Perspectives on Barriers to Eating Healthy Among Food Pantry Clients
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 …
Perceived Influences on Farmers' Market Use among Urban, WIC-enrolled Women
Findings aid understanding of factors to consider in designing interventions to promote farmers' market use in this population
Texting to Increase Adolescent Physical Activity: Feasibility Assessment
An intervention consisting of pedometers, theory-informed texts, and goal prompts, is a feasible and acceptable method for promoting physical activity to adolescents
Butterfly Girls; promoting healthy diet and physical activity to young African American girls online: Rationale and design
NCT01481948
Children’s accuracy of portion size estimation using digital food images: Effects of interface design and size of image on computer screen
Objective To test the effect of image size and presence of size cues on the accuracy of portion size estimation by children. Design Children were randomly assigned to seeing images with or without food size cues (utensils and checked tablecloth) and were presented with sixteen food models (foods commonly eaten by children) in varying portion sizes, one at a time. They estimated each food model’s portion size by selecting a digital food image. The…
Middle-school students’ school lunch consumption does not meet the new Institute of Medicine's National School Lunch Program recommendations
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…
Formative Assessment in the Development of an Obesity Prevention Component for the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program in Texas
This study conducted formative research (surveys, focus groups) to assess the nutrition education needs of clients in the Texas Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program prior to curriculum revision. Participants were current Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program participants in 3 Texas cities (Austin, Houston, San Antonio). Data were used to tailor the curriculum to the target population. This research provides evidence that members …
The impact of goal attainment on behavioral and mediating variables among low income women participating in an Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program intervention study
Family and Child-care Provider Influences on Preschool Children's Fruit, Juice, and Vegetable Consumption
Children's intakes of fruit, juice, and vegetables (FJV) do not meet the recommended minimum of five daily servings, placing them at increased risk for development of cancer and other diseases. Because children's food preferences and practices are initiated early in life (e.g., 2-5 years of age), early dietary intervention programs may have immediate nutritional benefit, as well as reduce chronic disease risk when learned healthful habits and pre…
Differences in fruit and vegetable exposure and preferences among adolescents receiving free fruit and vegetable snacks at school
The Impact of the Texas Public School Nutrition Policy on Student Food Selection and Sales in Texas
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 …
Feasibility of an 8-week African American Web-based Pilot Program Promoting Healthy Eating Behaviors: Family Eats
Measures of self-efficacy and norms for low-fat milk consumption are reliable and related to beverage consumption among 5th graders at school lunch
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…
Home fruit, juice, and vegetable pantry management and availability scales: A validation
Improvements in Middle School Student Dietary Intake After Implementation of the Texas Public School Nutrition Policy
Objectives. We assessed the effect of the Texas Public School Nutrition Policy on middle school student lunchtime food consumption. Methods. Three years of lunch food records were collected from middle school students in southeast Texas: baseline (2001–2002), after local district changes (2002–2003), and 1 year after implementation of the Texas Public School Nutrition Policy (2005–2006). Students recorded amount and source of foods and beverages …
Food-purchasing patterns for home: A grocery store-intercept survey
There is substantial variability in the frequency of food shopping. Future research on food shopping should incorporate this variable
Exploring changes in middle-school student lunch consumption after local school food service policy modifications
Objective This study assessed the impact of changes in school food policy on student lunch consumption in middle schools Methods Two years of lunch food records were collected from students at three middle schools in the Houston, Texas area. During the first year, no changes occurred in the school food environment. After that school year was completed, chips and dessert foods were removed from the snack bars of all schools by the Food Service Dir…
Squire's quest: Intervention changes occurred at lunch and snack meals
Social desirability bias in self-reported dietary, physical activity and weight concerns measures in 8- to 10-year-old African-American girls: Results from the Girls health Enrichment Multisite Studie…
Fruits, Vegetables, Milk, and Sweetened Beverages Consumption and Access to à la Carte/Snack Bar Meals at School
Objectives. We assessed the impact of access to school snack bars on middle school students’ fruit, vegetable, milk, and sweetened beverage consumption. Methods. Five hundred ninety-four fourth- and fifth-grade students completed lunch food records 4 times during a 2-year period. Results. The fourth-grade cohort consumed fewer fruits, regular (not fried) vegetables, and less milk and consumed more sweetened beverages and high-fat vegetables durin…
Availability, Accessibility, and Preferences for Fruit, 100% Fruit Juice, and Vegetables Influence Children's Dietary Behavior
The relationships among home fruit (F), 100% fruit juice (J), and vegetable (V) availability and accessibility separately, as reported by 225 fourth- through sixth-grade children and their parents ( n = 88), separately, and FJV preferences to child-reported FJV consumption were assessed. For girls, child-reported FJV availability and accessibility accounted for 35% of the variability in FJV consumption. Child-reported availability and parent-repo…
Are Current Health Behavioral Change Models Helpful in Guiding Prevention of Weight Gain Efforts?
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
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…
Familial Concordance of Dietary Fat Practices and Intake
This study examined parent and child dietary fat practices and child dietary fat intake. High- and low-fat practices and percentage of kilocalories from fat were obtained from food records completed by 132 students in the 4th to 6th grades. Parents completed three scales: meat modifications (MMOD); fat substitutions (FSUB); and fruit, juice, and vegetable practices (FJVP). A parent low-fat practices (PLFP) scale was created with the items matchin…
Fruits, Vegetables, Milk, and Sweetened Beverages Consumption and Access to à la Carte/Snack Bar Meals at School
Objectives. We assessed the impact of access to school snack bars on middle school students’ fruit, vegetable, milk, and sweetened beverage consumption. Methods. Five hundred ninety-four fourth- and fifth-grade students completed lunch food records 4 times during a 2-year period. Results. The fourth-grade cohort consumed fewer fruits, regular (not fried) vegetables, and less milk and consumed more sweetened beverages and high-fat vegetables durin…
Improvements in Middle School Student Dietary Intake After Implementation of the Texas Public School Nutrition Policy
Objectives. We assessed the effect of the Texas Public School Nutrition Policy on middle school student lunchtime food consumption. Methods. Three years of lunch food records were collected from middle school students in southeast Texas: baseline (2001–2002), after local district changes (2002–2003), and 1 year after implementation of the Texas Public School Nutrition Policy (2005–2006). Students recorded amount and source of foods and beverages …
Differences in fruit and vegetable exposure and preferences among adolescents receiving free fruit and vegetable snacks at school
Home fruit, juice, and vegetable pantry management and availability scales: A validation
Squire's quest: Intervention changes occurred at lunch and snack meals
Multiple authorship for community intervention trials
Multiple authorship for community intervention trials. T Baranowski, K W Cullen, and J BaranowskiCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.5.827-b Published Online: October 07, 2011
An evaluation of the United Kingdom's national system of headteacher appraisal
Headteacher appraisal: A view from the inside
This paper describes the perceptions and experiences of headteachers following the first phase of implementation of the United Kingdom Government's national system of head‐teacher appraisal. The study takes a qualitative approach and is based on data drawn from in‐depth interviews with 15 heads in nine local education authorities (LEAs) in the North and South of England as well as documentary evidence obtained from the Government and seven of the…
Multiple authorship for community intervention trials
Multiple authorship for community intervention trials. T Baranowski, K W Cullen, and J BaranowskiCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.5.827-b Published Online: October 07, 2011
Psychosocial Correlates of Dietary Intake: Advancing Dietary Intervention
Psychosocial variables that predict dietary behavior become important targets for change in nutrition education programs. Psychosocial variables in models with higher predictability provide more effective levers to promote healthy dietary change. A review of the literature on models with psychosocial variables predicting dietary fat and fruit and vegetable consumption revealed generally low predictiveness, R 2 2 is the squared multiple correlatio…
Eating Patterns, Dietary Quality and Obesity
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…
Child-reported family and peer influences on fruit, juice and vegetable consumption: Reliability and validity of measures
Family, peers and other environmental factors are likely to influence children's dietary behavior but few measures of these phenomena exist. Questionnaires to measure family and peer influences on children's fruit, juice and vegetable (FJV) consumption were developed and pilot tested with an ethnically diverse group of Grade 4-6 children. Principal components analyses revealed subscales with acceptable internal consistencies that measured parent …
Familial Concordance of Dietary Fat Practices and Intake
This study examined parent and child dietary fat practices and child dietary fat intake. High- and low-fat practices and percentage of kilocalories from fat were obtained from food records completed by 132 students in the 4th to 6th grades. Parents completed three scales: meat modifications (MMOD); fat substitutions (FSUB); and fruit, juice, and vegetable practices (FJVP). A parent low-fat practices (PLFP) scale was created with the items matchin…
Availability, Accessibility, and Preferences for Fruit, 100% Fruit Juice, and Vegetables Influence Children's Dietary Behavior
The relationships among home fruit (F), 100% fruit juice (J), and vegetable (V) availability and accessibility separately, as reported by 225 fourth- through sixth-grade children and their parents ( n = 88), separately, and FJV preferences to child-reported FJV consumption were assessed. For girls, child-reported FJV availability and accessibility accounted for 35% of the variability in FJV consumption. Child-reported availability and parent-repo…
Are Current Health Behavioral Change Models Helpful in Guiding Prevention of Weight Gain Efforts?
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
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…
Social desirability bias in self-reported dietary, physical activity and weight concerns measures in 8- to 10-year-old African-American girls: Results from the Girls health Enrichment Multisite Studie…
Fruits, Vegetables, Milk, and Sweetened Beverages Consumption and Access to à la Carte/Snack Bar Meals at School
Objectives. We assessed the impact of access to school snack bars on middle school students’ fruit, vegetable, milk, and sweetened beverage consumption. Methods. Five hundred ninety-four fourth- and fifth-grade students completed lunch food records 4 times during a 2-year period. Results. The fourth-grade cohort consumed fewer fruits, regular (not fried) vegetables, and less milk and consumed more sweetened beverages and high-fat vegetables durin…
Squire's quest: Intervention changes occurred at lunch and snack meals
Food-purchasing patterns for home: A grocery store-intercept survey
There is substantial variability in the frequency of food shopping. Future research on food shopping should incorporate this variable
Exploring changes in middle-school student lunch consumption after local school food service policy modifications
Objective This study assessed the impact of changes in school food policy on student lunch consumption in middle schools Methods Two years of lunch food records were collected from students at three middle schools in the Houston, Texas area. During the first year, no changes occurred in the school food environment. After that school year was completed, chips and dessert foods were removed from the snack bars of all schools by the Food Service Dir…
Feasibility of an 8-week African American Web-based Pilot Program Promoting Healthy Eating Behaviors: Family Eats
Measures of self-efficacy and norms for low-fat milk consumption are reliable and related to beverage consumption among 5th graders at school lunch
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…
Home fruit, juice, and vegetable pantry management and availability scales: A validation
Improvements in Middle School Student Dietary Intake After Implementation of the Texas Public School Nutrition Policy
Objectives. We assessed the effect of the Texas Public School Nutrition Policy on middle school student lunchtime food consumption. Methods. Three years of lunch food records were collected from middle school students in southeast Texas: baseline (2001–2002), after local district changes (2002–2003), and 1 year after implementation of the Texas Public School Nutrition Policy (2005–2006). Students recorded amount and source of foods and beverages …
Family and Child-care Provider Influences on Preschool Children's Fruit, Juice, and Vegetable Consumption
Children's intakes of fruit, juice, and vegetables (FJV) do not meet the recommended minimum of five daily servings, placing them at increased risk for development of cancer and other diseases. Because children's food preferences and practices are initiated early in life (e.g., 2-5 years of age), early dietary intervention programs may have immediate nutritional benefit, as well as reduce chronic disease risk when learned healthful habits and pre…
Differences in fruit and vegetable exposure and preferences among adolescents receiving free fruit and vegetable snacks at school
The Impact of the Texas Public School Nutrition Policy on Student Food Selection and Sales in Texas
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 …
The impact of goal attainment on behavioral and mediating variables among low income women participating in an Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program intervention study
Children’s accuracy of portion size estimation using digital food images: Effects of interface design and size of image on computer screen
Objective To test the effect of image size and presence of size cues on the accuracy of portion size estimation by children. Design Children were randomly assigned to seeing images with or without food size cues (utensils and checked tablecloth) and were presented with sixteen food models (foods commonly eaten by children) in varying portion sizes, one at a time. They estimated each food model’s portion size by selecting a digital food image. The…
Middle-school students’ school lunch consumption does not meet the new Institute of Medicine's National School Lunch Program recommendations
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…
Medicine (27 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (24 works) · Environmental health (21 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Psychological intervention (8 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Nutritional Studies and Diet (7 works) · Biology (6 works)