Summary:

The Foundation's program, Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity, was designed to support investigator-initiated research to identify and assess environmental and policy influences with the greatest potential to improve healthy eating and weight patterns among the nation's children. The Policy Legislation and Nutrition (PLAN) study will examine the impact of state and local policies on the school nutrition environment and on the students' dietary behaviors. Data will be collected from 64 rural and urban middle schools in Washington State, stratified by income level and ethnicity. Data will include policy quality, policy implementation, inventories of the foods available at each school and dietary intake, and will be analyzed to determine what factors are associated with a successful implementation of a policy by schools and associations between access to food at school and student diets. The study's target population is students in grades 6-8, multiracial/ethnic, with a mean of 55 percent eligible for free and reduced-price lunches.

Grant Details:

Approved award: $399,208
Actual award: $398,915
Awarded on: Jun 2, 2006
Time frame: Jun 15, 2006 - Nov 30, 2009
Grant number: 57932
This grant is associated with the RWJF National Program:   Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity

Grantee:

University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine
http://sph.washington.edu/
Box 357230
Seattle, WA 98195-7230
(206) 543-1144
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Contact Information:

Donna B. Johnson, Ph.D., R.D., M.S. (Project Director)
djohn@u.washington.edu
Phone: (206) 685-1068