Nicole Neault
Biographic Data
| ID | 921893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole Neault |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole |
| FAMILY NAME | Neault |
| SIGNATURE | NEAULT N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Native American resilience to protect family nutrition during a pandemic: A qualitative analysis
Native American (NA) communities have a history of being forced to adapt to adversity and leverage cultural strengths to cope with nutrition injustices. For generations, NA families in the United States (US) have experienced ongoing burdens from colonization-related disruptions to traditional foodways, resulting in disproportionately high prevalence of food and drinking water insecurity and related early childhood obesity. The COVID-19 pandemic f…
Protecting Native Families from Covid-19: Implementation and Lessons Learned from a Community-Based Approach to Collecting Evidence to Support Uptake of Health Behaviors During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted longstanding health inequities, particularly among American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) communities, which experienced disproportionately high morbidity and mortality. This manuscript documents the implementation, adaptation, and lessons learned from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) conducted during a rapidly evolving pandemic context. The RCT tested two public health interventions: (1) a motivational intervie…
Developing the Feast for the Future Program through a Community Visioning Process
A community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) process was critical to developing a culturally appropriate program that built on community strengths
Empowering Native Adolescents: Responsibility for Their Health Behaviors
Objectives: In this study, we assess the impact of a home-based diabetes prevention program, Together on Diabetes (TOD), on adolescent responsibility-taking for tasks related to diabetes risk. Methods: Participants were Native American youth ages 10-19 with or at risk of type 2 diabetes who participated in a 12-session, 6-month diabetes prevention program with an adult caretaker. Assessments completed at baseline, 6-month, and 12-month follow-up …
A Qualitative Evaluation of a Community Based, Culturally Relevant Intervention to Promote Healthy Food Access in American Indian Communities
In response to a need for healthy, affordable food, Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health and three rural indigenous communities launched the "Feast for the Future," (FFF) to promote access to healthy foods and the transfer of traditional food-based knowledge from farmers/elders to youth. To assess program impact, 43 in-depth interviews were conducted with participating farmers, elders, and Community Advisory Board members. Interviews w…
Utilizing broad‐based partnerships to design a precision approach to implementing evidence‐based home visiting
The aim of this paper is to describe a participatory process for adapting an implementation strategy, using a precision approach, for an evidence‐based home visiting program, Family Spirit. Family Spirit serves Native American and low‐income communities nationwide. To redesign Family Spirit's implementation strategy, we used workshops ( n = 5) with key stakeholders and conducted an online survey with implementers ( n = 81) to identify hypothesize…
Food insecurity and household eating patterns among vulnerable American-Indian families: Associations with caregiver and food consumption characteristics
Objective To identify factors associated with food insecurity and household eating patterns among American-Indian families with young children. Design Cross-sectional survey among households with young children that were receiving emergency food services. We collected information on food insecurity levels, household eating patterns, experiences with commercial and community food sources and demographics, and used multivariate regression technique…
Child Food Insecurity Increases Risks Posed by Household Food Insecurity to Young Children’s Health
Utilizing broad‐based partnerships to design a precision approach to implementing evidence‐based home visiting
The aim of this paper is to describe a participatory process for adapting an implementation strategy, using a precision approach, for an evidence‐based home visiting program, Family Spirit. Family Spirit serves Native American and low‐income communities nationwide. To redesign Family Spirit's implementation strategy, we used workshops ( n = 5) with key stakeholders and conducted an online survey with implementers ( n = 81) to identify hypothesize…
Child Food Insecurity Increases Risks Posed by Household Food Insecurity to Young Children’s Health
Food insecurity and household eating patterns among vulnerable American-Indian families: Associations with caregiver and food consumption characteristics
Objective To identify factors associated with food insecurity and household eating patterns among American-Indian families with young children. Design Cross-sectional survey among households with young children that were receiving emergency food services. We collected information on food insecurity levels, household eating patterns, experiences with commercial and community food sources and demographics, and used multivariate regression technique…
A Qualitative Evaluation of a Community Based, Culturally Relevant Intervention to Promote Healthy Food Access in American Indian Communities
In response to a need for healthy, affordable food, Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health and three rural indigenous communities launched the "Feast for the Future," (FFF) to promote access to healthy foods and the transfer of traditional food-based knowledge from farmers/elders to youth. To assess program impact, 43 in-depth interviews were conducted with participating farmers, elders, and Community Advisory Board members. Interviews w…
Utilizing broad‐based partnerships to design a precision approach to implementing evidence‐based home visiting
The aim of this paper is to describe a participatory process for adapting an implementation strategy, using a precision approach, for an evidence‐based home visiting program, Family Spirit. Family Spirit serves Native American and low‐income communities nationwide. To redesign Family Spirit's implementation strategy, we used workshops ( n = 5) with key stakeholders and conducted an online survey with implementers ( n = 81) to identify hypothesize…
Empowering Native Adolescents: Responsibility for Their Health Behaviors
Objectives: In this study, we assess the impact of a home-based diabetes prevention program, Together on Diabetes (TOD), on adolescent responsibility-taking for tasks related to diabetes risk. Methods: Participants were Native American youth ages 10-19 with or at risk of type 2 diabetes who participated in a 12-session, 6-month diabetes prevention program with an adult caretaker. Assessments completed at baseline, 6-month, and 12-month follow-up …
Developing the Feast for the Future Program through a Community Visioning Process
A community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) process was critical to developing a culturally appropriate program that built on community strengths
Protecting Native Families from Covid-19: Implementation and Lessons Learned from a Community-Based Approach to Collecting Evidence to Support Uptake of Health Behaviors During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted longstanding health inequities, particularly among American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) communities, which experienced disproportionately high morbidity and mortality. This manuscript documents the implementation, adaptation, and lessons learned from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) conducted during a rapidly evolving pandemic context. The RCT tested two public health interventions: (1) a motivational intervie…
Native American resilience to protect family nutrition during a pandemic: A qualitative analysis
Native American (NA) communities have a history of being forced to adapt to adversity and leverage cultural strengths to cope with nutrition injustices. For generations, NA families in the United States (US) have experienced ongoing burdens from colonization-related disruptions to traditional foodways, resulting in disproportionately high prevalence of food and drinking water insecurity and related early childhood obesity. The COVID-19 pandemic f…
Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Demography (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Food insecurity (3 works) · Food security (3 works) · Gerontology (3 works) · Public health (3 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)