Karen Wardle

Biographic Data

ID7556970
NAMEKaren Wardle
GIVEN NAMESKaren
FAMILY NAMEWardle
SIGNATUREWARDLE K
AFFILIATIONSSouth Western Sydney Local Health District
ORCID0000-0002-6075-7123
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Food provision and healthy eating environments in before school care

    Open AccessAndrew J Woods, Yasmine Probst et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2025

    Objective: Australian children fall short of national dietary guidelines with only 63 % consuming adequate fruit and 10 % enough vegetables. Before school care operates as part of Out of School Hours Care (OSHC) services and provides opportunities to address poor dietary habits in children. The aim of this study was to describe the food and beverages provided in before school care and to explore how service-level factors influence food provision.…

  • Harnessing citizen science in health promotion

    Open AccessYvonne Laird, Loren Marks et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2023

    Citizen science is rapidly gaining momentum as a means of involving members of the public in research and decision-making in disease prevention and health promotion. However, citizen science projects have predominantly been led by academic researchers and there is limited understanding of how to support the application of citizen science approaches in policy and practice settings. This study aimed to understand the perceptions, motivations and ea…

  • Demographic Predictors of Mothers' Willingness to Vaccinate Young Children Against Covid-19, Get Tested and Isolate

    Open AccessLi Ming Wen, Huilan Xu et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Background and Objectives: Having a COVID-19 vaccination, getting tested, and self-isolating if symptomatic are some of the most important mitigation strategies for preventing the spread of COVID-19. This study aimed to investigate whether demographic factors are associated with mothers' willingness to vaccinate their 4-year-old children against COVID-19 if a suitable vaccine becomes available or to get tested and self-isolate if they themselves …

  • Foods and beverages provided in out of school hours care services

    Open AccessRuth K Crowe, Yasmine Probst et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Future interventions could benefit from trialling menu planning training and tools to assist OSHC services in NSW meet the ADG requirements

  • Tracking implementation within a community-led whole of system approach to address childhood overweight and obesity in south west Sydney, Australia

    Open AccessNicola Maitland, Karen Wardle et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    This paper provides a pragmatic example of the methods used to track implementation of complex interventions that are addressing childhood overweight and obesity

  • Foods provided to children in family day care

    Open AccessErin M Kerr, Bridget Kelly et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2021

    Objective: To assess the quality and quantity of foods and beverages provided to children aged 0–5 years in family day care and identify structural and sociodemographic factors associated with the nutritional quality of food provided. Design: A cross-sectional study measured the food and beverages provided to children using weighed food records. The number of serves from different food groups was calculated according to the Australian Guide to He…

  • Campbelltown – Changing our Future

    Open AccessNicola Maitland, Mandy Williams et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    Addressing childhood overweight and obesity is complex and requires a multifaceted intervention. This approach has the capacity to impact a range of factors that influence childhood overweight and obesity utilising existing capacity of multiple partners with broad community reach. Findings will develop local responses which capture the complexity of obesity at a community level and further our understanding of the interrelationships and relative …

  • Early intervention of multiple home visits to prevent childhood obesity in a disadvantaged population

    Open AccessLi Ming Wen, L A Baur et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2007

    The results of this trial will ascertain whether the home based early intervention is effective in preventing the early onset of childhood overweight and obesity. If proved to be effective, it will result in a series of recommendations for policy and practical methods for promoting healthy feeding and physical activity of children in the first two years of life with particular application to families who are socially and economically disadvantage…