title: Baseline Socio-demographic characteristics and self-reported diet and physical activity shifts among recent immigrants participating in the randomized controlled lifestyle intervention: "Live Well".
abstract: The goal of this paper is to describe the baseline characteristics of Live Well (intervention to prevent weight gain in recent immigrant mother-child dyads from Brazil, Haiti, and Latin America) participants, and to explore self-reported changes in diet and physical activity post-immigration. Baseline data from 383 mothers were used for this study. Dyads attended a measurement day where they completed self-administered surveys collecting information about socio-demographics, diet, physical activity, other psychosocial variables, and height and weight. Haitian mothers' socio-demographic profile differed significantly from that of Brazilians' and Latinas': they have been in the US for a shorter period of time, have higher rates of unemployment, are less likely to be married, more likely to have ≥3 children, more likely to be obese, and have immigrated for family or other reasons. In multivariate models, self-reported changes in diet and physical activity since migrating to the US were significantly associated with BMI with non-linear relationships identified. Future research is needed to understand how diet and physical activity change while acculturating to the US and explore the adoption of both healthy and unhealthy dietary changes.
authors: Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Rhode Island, 112 Ranger Hall, Kingston, RI, 02881, USA, Alison_tovar@mail.uri.edu.
authors: Alison
authors: A
authors: Tovar
authors: Rebecca
authors: R
authors: Boulos
authors: Sarah
authors: S
authors: Sliwa
authors: Aviva
authors: A
authors: Must
authors: David M
authors: DM
authors: Gute
authors: Nesly
authors: N
authors: Metayer
authors: Raymond R
authors: RR
authors: Hyatt
authors: Kenneth
authors: K
authors: Chui
authors: Alex
authors: A
authors: Pirie
authors: Christina Kamis
authors: CK
authors: Luongo
authors: Christina
authors: C
authors: Economos
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001938:Brazil / Q000208:ethnology; D004032:Diet; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D006205:Haiti / Q000208:ethnology; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control; D010358:Patient Participation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D057566:Self Report; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States