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What Mediates The Relationship Between Family Meals And Adolescent Health Issues?, Ruth Striegel Weissman
What Mediates The Relationship Between Family Meals And Adolescent Health Issues?, Ruth Striegel Weissman
Ruth Striegel Weissman
Objective: To determine whether the frequency of family meals in childhood is associated with positive health outcomes in adolescence through the mediating links of increased family cohesion and positive coping skills.Design : Data were obtained from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Growth and Health Study (NGHS), a 10-year longitudinal study of 2,379 black and white girls assessed annually from ages 9–19. The mediational analysis framework of H. C. Kraemer and colleagues (2001) was used to test the hypothesis that the frequency of family meals in childhood (Study Years 1 and 3) would be related to health outcomes (Study Year 10) …
Night Eating: Prevalence And Demographic Correlates, Ruth Striegel Weissman
Night Eating: Prevalence And Demographic Correlates, Ruth Striegel Weissman
Ruth Striegel Weissman
Objective: To examine the prevalence and correlates of night eating, the core behavioral symptom of night eating syndrome among adolescents and adults, using two public access survey databases of nationally representative samples.
Research Methods and Procedures: Data were extracted for individuals age 13 years or older who completed food diary data for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III (N = 18, 407) or the Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (N = 10, 741). Prevalence estimates were calculated for three commonly used definitions of night eating. Logistic regression was used to examine correlates …