The Parents to Peers Study (PtoP)
Using multiple methods, the Parents to Peers team is examining how both parent and peer influences relate to the foods available to youth during lunchtime at school, and ultimately what students choose to eat. Working with local elementary schools, we collect data from fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students and their parents using a daily report design.
With this design, we have the capacity to look at both interindividual differences and intraindividual change across the week. For example, we examine between-student differences in daily consumption of fruits and vegetables based on the level of fruit and vegetables availability at home. We can consider within-student variations in fruit and vegetable consumption based on factors such as food sharing behaviors at lunchtime. It may be, for instance, that receiving grapes from a friend encourages consumption of this and other fruits in one’s own lunch, while receiving a sweet dessert might discourage consumption of fruits available in the lunch.
For more information about PtoP, see our article in the National Council on Family Relations Family Focus Report on Families and Obesity or contact study coordinator Carolyn Sutter (casutter@ucdavis.edu).
Healthy Kids Study
http://healthykids.ucdavis.edu/
Information coming soon!
Niños Sanos Study
Information coming soon!
Rural Families Speak About Health Study (RFSH)
The overall objective of RFSH is to determine the interactions of individual, family, community, and policy contexts on physical and mental health in diverse rural low-income families.
Specific goals of RFSH include:
- To examine individual and family level characteristics which impact physical and mental health in diverse rural low-income families.
- To examine community contexts that impact family mental and physical health in diverse rural low-income families.
- To examine policies that impact family mental and physical health in diverse rural low-income families.
- To examine interactions of individual, family, community, and policy on mental and physical health in diverse rural low-income families.
RFSH project is a multi-state research project, funded by Agricultural Experiment Stations in participating states and other sources. Dr. Ontai serves as PI for the California branch of the project.