[{"id":894,"date":"2020-08-22T21:27:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T21:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/?page_id=894"},"modified":"2020-08-22T21:33:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T21:33:26","slug":"further-reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/further-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Further Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaleatingdisorders.org\/blog\/recognizing-and-resisting-diet-culture\">Recognizing and Resisting Diet Culture<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/youngwomenshealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/How-is-Diet-Culture-Affecting-Me.pdf\">How is Diet Culture Affecting Me?\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Bacon L, Aphramor L. Body Respect (2014) and <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lindabacon.org\">website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Scritchfield, R. Body Kindness (2016) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodykindnessbook.com\">website<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 5\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Tribole E, Resch E. The Intuitive Eating Workbook (2017) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intuitiveeating.org\">website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebodypositive.org\">The Body Positive<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellynsatterinstitute.org\">Ellyn Satter Eating Competence<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognizing and Resisting Diet Culture How is Diet Culture Affecting Me?\u00a0 Bacon L, Aphramor L. Body Respect (2014) and website Scritchfield, R. Body Kindness (2016) and website Tribole E, Resch E. The Intuitive Eating Workbook (2017) and website The Body Positive Ellyn Satter Eating Competence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3392,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-894","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":867,"date":"2020-08-22T14:59:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T14:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/?page_id=867"},"modified":"2020-08-22T15:38:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T15:38:01","slug":"media","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/media\/","title":{"rendered":"Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-846\" src=\"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/Photo-Background-Food-Instagram-Post-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/Photo-Background-Food-Instagram-Post-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/Photo-Background-Food-Instagram-Post-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/Photo-Background-Food-Instagram-Post-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/Photo-Background-Food-Instagram-Post-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/Photo-Background-Food-Instagram-Post.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Catch up on the latest podcast episode <a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/natalie733\/episodes\/The-Skinny-on-Diet-eie9qu\/a-a30et0c\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catch up on the latest podcast episode here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3392,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-867","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":834,"date":"2020-01-30T20:32:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/healthcommunicationtemplate\/?page_id=834"},"modified":"2020-08-22T15:54:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T15:54:06","slug":"process_evaluation_plan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/process_evaluation_plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Process Evaluation Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Process Evaluation<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Complete and Acceptable Delivery of The Health-Focused Mindset (HFM) Program<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To qualify as a complete and acceptable delivery of The Health-Focused Mindset (HFM) Program, there should be four fundamental components: two environmental components creating both a school implementation team and a small group comprised of peers for the second educational module; two educational modules, The \u201cSkinny\u201d on Diet and a Social Media Health Promotion project.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Environmental Component<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Health-Focused Mindset (HFM) Program\u2019s environmental component is twofold: a school-based implementation team and a small group comprised of students. At each participating high school, an implementation team will be created with stakeholders at the school. This team will function throughout the duration of both educational modules. At minimum, the school stakeholder team will consist of one administrator, two teachers, and additional related staff members. Ideally, the school environment will support the program by providing both content and verbal support to students as well as by providing resource support in the form of time, technology, and advertising of the program. Team members will help disseminate program staff-provided training videos and note sheets to school-based instructors. The small group will be made up of no more than 6 students and no less than 4 students. Each group will be randomly selected from a pool of peers, from all different grade levels.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Educational Component<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Health-Focused Mindset (HFM) Program includes two modules each lasting for 6-week intervals, meeting for about 30 to 45 minutes a week during the first module sessions and 1 to 1.5 hours a week for the second module sessions. Because the curriculum is administered through a secure online platform, extensive training is not necessary for school-based course administrators. In the second module, school-based administrators of the course will have a brief virtual call where program staff explains best practices and expectations of them during the module. While the second module is also web-based, school-based administrators will need to have a brief overview of facilitating group work amongst small groups as they work on their social media health promotion projects. If there are questions during the work sessions in module two, there will be a live chat option with an HFM program staff member during their allotted work time. Sessions for each module must be delivered to students and completed in order as they were designed to be completed in sequence, as each builds on the previous lessons.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSkinny\u201d on Diet module will contain, at a minimum, the following:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>School-based instructors will provide computer delivery of curriculum lessons for each student using an individually-provided, unique user code. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Instructors will ensure students complete web-based reflections and responses for each lesson.<\/li>\n<li>Instructors will provide take-home assignments so students can engage their families with the curriculum content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Social Media Health Promotion module will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Student participants working in small groups to design and create a social media health promotion campaign about diet culture and nutrition diet.<\/li>\n<li>Participation from students in each stage of the process of building a social media campaign: brainstorming, storyboarding, design, and content production.<\/li>\n<li>Students will peer-review campaigns from other groups and provide constructed feedback on how well the brief was addressed and how accessible the content was.<\/li>\n<li>Social media campaigns will be shared on indicated or intended media platforms<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Potential Process Evaluation Questions<\/b><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Target of Question<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Process- Evaluation Question<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Method of Assessment for Question<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Resources Required<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Activities<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">To what extent were all of the intended methods, strategies, and\/or activities used?<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Data would come from the web-based lesson delivery platform, both from completion statistics and from the quality of completion.<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Data from the real-time backend database linked to the online program<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Reach<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">\n<ul>\n<li>What proportion of the priority target audience participated in (attended) each program session? How many participated in at least one-half of possible sessions?<\/li>\n<li>How many students completed the social media promotion project? Of those who completed the project, how many shared the promotion project on social media?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Data would be sourced from the schools participating in the HFM program, namely full class lists. These lists would then be compared to the completion data from the online platform using the unique log-in codes assigned to specific students.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Classroom rosters and data from the real-time backend database linked to the online program<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Fidelity<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">To what extent was the intervention implemented consistently with the underlying theory and philosophy of the program?<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">A combination of reports from teachers assisting the implementation of the curriculum and HFM staff observation using a checklist of expected characteristics of implementation. Data will also come from the web-based system and the unique log-in codes for participants. Completion of lessons could be tracked by a real-time backend database linked to the online program.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">A checklist of expected characteristics of implementation used for<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>reports from teachers assisting the implementation of the curriculum and for HFM staff observation<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Context<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\"><i>General<\/i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What factors in the organization, community, social\/political context, or other situational issues could potentially affect either intervention implementation or the intervention outcome?<\/li>\n<li>What other barriers and facilitators influenced delivery of the program in the schools?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Environmental<\/i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Did the participating schools allow time for students to participate in the program?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Did schools provide support to participating students?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Data would come from reflection surveys both for participants and school staff, teachers, and administrators involved in the program. The primary methods and tools are survey interviews using open-ended questions to address barriers to implementation and delivery, what time was allotted for the program each week, and specific examples of support given to participants. Survey responses would be cross-referenced between populations to check accuracy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Reflection (posttest) surveys from both participants and school-based staff using open-ended questions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Program Management<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">\n<ul>\n<li>What planned and actual procedures were used to encourage the continued involvement of individuals, groups, and organizations?<\/li>\n<li>What were the barriers to maintaining the involvement of individuals, groups, and organizations?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Sources and methods will include daily documentation from HFM program staff regarding all activities involved in identifying and recruiting administrators within schools and surveys from both the HFM school-based team and the HFM staff.<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">HFM documentation and surveys from both the HFM school-based team and the HFM staff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Dose Delivered<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">\n<ul>\n<li>To what extent was all of the intended content covered in classroom lessons, including health and nutrition content as well as health promotion content creation strategies?<\/li>\n<li>To what extent were all of the intended methods, strategies, and\/or activities used? (esp. social support strategies)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Possible data sources and methods include the real-time backend database linked to the online program, reports from the school-based team, HFM staff observation. These methods will require a clear checklist of content covered and requested participant output measures.<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Data from the real-time backend database linked to the online program, reports from the school-based team, HFM staff observation, and a clear checklist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Dose Received<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">\n<ul>\n<li>To what extent were students present at intervention activities engaged in the activities, especially in the social media promotion project?<\/li>\n<li>How did the participants react to specific aspects of the intervention? (esp. the \u201cnew diet\u201d content)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Possible data sources include teachers, staff, administrators, and student participants. Methods and tools include administering brief satisfaction scales, possibly Likert scale-based, and conducting interviews and\/or focus groups with open-ended questions.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Likert scale-based satisfaction surveys and interviews using open-ended questions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Summary of the Process Evaluation<\/b><\/p>\n<p>After consideration, the most important areas of priority for process evaluation questions for The Health-Focused Mindset (HFM) Program are fidelity (quality), reach (participation rate), context, dose delivered (completeness), and dose received (exposure). Program management also deserves an honorable mention, which could be used in a case by case situation depending on the context of the school. However, context can serve as a placeholder, where it answers two main questions:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What factors in the organization, community, social\/political context, or other situational issues could potentially affect either intervention implementation or the intervention outcome?<\/li>\n<li>Did schools provide support to participating students?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fidelity can be addressed in program implementation by asking the question: To what extent was the intervention implemented consistently with the underlying theory and philosophy of the program? Reach can best be addressed by asking a combination of questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What proportion of the priority target audience participated in (attended) each program session? How many participated in at least one-half of possible sessions?<\/li>\n<li>How many students completed the social media promotion project? Of those who completed the project, how many shared the promotion project on social media?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While dose delivered can be internally addressed through the online platform, the second module of the program necessitates a question from both participants and school staff: To what extent were all of the intended methods, strategies, and\/or activities used, especially in regards to the social support strategies of the second module? Dose received can be addressed in a posttest given to participants at the conclusion of the program as well as six months later. However, an important evaluation to ask of the interactive second module is: To what extent were students present at intervention activities engaged in the activities, especially in the social media promotion project?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this unique program, the technologically-based curriculum dissemination tool helps simply evaluation data on the receiving end. However, to complete a process evaluation, checklists must be developed on the early end through the online platform. Interviews and surveys using open-ended questions and Likert scale-based questions are also crucial to the evaluation process.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>References<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie, J, Neiger, B., &amp; Thackeray, R. (2017). <i>Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Health Promotion Programs: A Primer. 7<\/i><i style=\"font-size: 1rem\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/i><i style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> ed. <\/i><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Pearson Education, Inc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Saunders, R.P., Evans, M. H., &amp; Joshi, P. (2005).\u00a0Developing a Process-Evaluation Plan for<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Assessing Health Promotion Program\u00a0Implementation: A How-To Guide. Health<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Promotion Practice.6: 134.<\/p>\n<p>Schwinn, T., Schinke, S., Fang, L., &amp; Kandasamy, S. (2013). A web-based, health promotion<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>program for adolescent girls and their mothers who reside in public housing. Addictive<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Behaviors, 39(4), 757\u2013760. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.addbeh.2013.11.029.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Process Evaluation Complete and Acceptable Delivery of The Health-Focused Mindset (HFM) Program To qualify as a complete and acceptable delivery of The Health-Focused Mindset (HFM) Program, there should be four fundamental components: two environmental components creating both a school implementation team and a small group comprised of peers for the second educational module; two educational &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/process_evaluation_plan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Process Evaluation Plan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3392,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-834","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":833,"date":"2020-01-30T20:31:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/healthcommunicationtemplate\/?page_id=833"},"modified":"2020-08-22T21:55:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T21:55:30","slug":"program_strategies-interventions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/program_strategies-interventions\/","title":{"rendered":"Program Strategies\/Interventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Health-Focused Mindset (HFM) Program is a 12-week program designed for high school teens in Indianapolis, Indiana. Using a web-based interface, the HFM program consists of four fundamental components: two environmental components creating both a school implementation team and a small group comprised of peers for the second educational module; two educational modules, The \u201cSkinny\u201d on Diet and a Social Media Health Promotion project. The HFM Program uses a combination of theoretical approaches to create an effective health promotion program for obesity, including diffusion theory, social cognitive theory, and social-ecological theory. In addressing several levels of influence, including intrapersonal, interpersonal, and community, the HFM looks to improve the quality, effectiveness, and sustainability of the program\u2019s goals.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-885\" src=\"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/element5-digital-OyCl7Y4y0Bk-unsplash-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/element5-digital-OyCl7Y4y0Bk-unsplash-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/element5-digital-OyCl7Y4y0Bk-unsplash-1024x723.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/element5-digital-OyCl7Y4y0Bk-unsplash-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/element5-digital-OyCl7Y4y0Bk-unsplash-1536x1084.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/element5-digital-OyCl7Y4y0Bk-unsplash-2048x1446.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Strategy 1<\/b>: Nutrition Education<\/p>\n<p>The nutrition education component of the HFM Program looks to improve the health literacy of high school students in Indianapolis, Indiana. Students do not have a required nutrition curriculum at the state level in Indiana, so this program looks to supplement the educational void. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-889\" src=\"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/jeshoots-com-Lu9FNRCqPys-unsplash-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/jeshoots-com-Lu9FNRCqPys-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/jeshoots-com-Lu9FNRCqPys-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/jeshoots-com-Lu9FNRCqPys-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/jeshoots-com-Lu9FNRCqPys-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/jeshoots-com-Lu9FNRCqPys-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Strategy 2<\/b>: Health Communication<\/p>\n<p>Not only do students learn nutrition knowledge in the education components of the program, but they also learn practical health communication strategies themselves. In the second educational module, students design their own health promotion social media campaign based on the information from the first module to share with their peers.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-890\" src=\"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/elaine-casap-qgHGDbbSNm8-unsplash-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/elaine-casap-qgHGDbbSNm8-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/elaine-casap-qgHGDbbSNm8-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/elaine-casap-qgHGDbbSNm8-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/elaine-casap-qgHGDbbSNm8-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/elaine-casap-qgHGDbbSNm8-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Strategy 3<\/b>: Environmental Change Strategies<\/p>\n<p>The HFM Program relies on social support structures to reinforce behavior change in a sustainable way. By fostering peer group work and enabling students to share their new-found knowledge on social media, the HFM Program looks to help provide students with opportunities and support to assist them in developing healthier behaviors (McKenzie, Neiger &amp; Thackeray, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-892\" src=\"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/united-nations-covid-19-response-gMPsl1ez-Ts-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reference<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie, J.F., Neiger, B.L., &amp; Thackeray, R. (2017). Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Health Promotion Programs: A Primer (7<sup>th<\/sup> ed.). Pearson Education, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Health-Focused Mindset (HFM) Program is a 12-week program designed for high school teens in Indianapolis, Indiana. Using a web-based interface, the HFM program consists of four fundamental components: two environmental components creating both a school implementation team and a small group comprised of peers for the second educational module; two educational modules, The \u201cSkinny\u201d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/program_strategies-interventions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Program Strategies\/Interventions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3392,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-833","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":832,"date":"2020-01-30T20:31:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/healthcommunicationtemplate\/?page_id=832"},"modified":"2020-08-22T15:33:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T15:33:37","slug":"logic_model","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/logic_model\/","title":{"rendered":"Logic Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><b>INPUTS<\/b><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><b>ACTIVITIES<\/b><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><b>OUTPUTS<\/b><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><b>S-T OUTCOMES<\/b><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><b>I-T OUTCOMES<\/b><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><b>L-T OUTCOMES<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">Program team develops a curriculum for nutrition and diet education for Indianapolis teens.<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Program team implements lessons on nutrition, diet, and communication strategies, focusing on why this information is important and how to make behavior changes.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">The program reaches over 50% of Indianapolis teens, teens complete education program, and engagement is consistent.<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Teens can identify the nutrition-based definition of diet, understand the risks of restrictive dieting, and identity positive diet behaviors for their own lives.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Teens change food consumption habits and develop a health-focused mindset regarding diet, resulting in improved awareness of diet, health, and body image.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Reduction in obesogenic behaviors and overall risk of obesity.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">Program team implements a corresponding communication and social media project, built from the curriculum. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Program team implements a training program for corner store owners on merchandising and sales strategies of newly added healthful foods.<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Teens complete a social media communication campaign summation of content.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Change in knowledge and strategy in regards to merchandising and sales of newly added healthful foods.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Community members gain more opportunities to purchase healthful foods, and store owners make healthful foods more accessible to community members.<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Obesity risk and outcome reduction.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">Program team will introduce the idea that students are not alone through a class discussion about the benefits of community.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Program team will facilitate interconnectedness among participants, creating community groups within participants.<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Community groups meet during each lesson and work on social media campaigns together.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Teen participants will feel more connected and engaged with program material, resulting in higher engagement and satisfaction.<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Improved self-esteem, better connection with peers, lowered cardiovascular risks, especially blood pressure.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Quality of life of individuals improves.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INPUTS ACTIVITIES OUTPUTS S-T OUTCOMES I-T OUTCOMES L-T OUTCOMES Program team develops a curriculum for nutrition and diet education for Indianapolis teens. Program team implements lessons on nutrition, diet, and communication strategies, focusing on why this information is important and how to make behavior changes.\u00a0 The program reaches over 50% of Indianapolis teens, teens complete &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/logic_model\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Logic 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Statement, Goals, and Objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><b>Mission Statement:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Through education and community building, we promote well-informed food choices and health-focused mindset shifts in diet behaviors among US high school students.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><b>Goals:<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>High school students in Indianapolis will learn to redefine diet and learn about health and nutrition from a health-focused mindset rather than a weight-focused mindset as a group based in lessons with program organizers.<\/li>\n<li>High school students will work alongside program staff to create a social media campaign to inform other teens in Indianapolis about diet-related information using the program curriculum.<\/li>\n<li>Participants will learn to consciously shift from a negative body image to a positive body image and show support for others in their age group in achieving this goal.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\"><b>Objective Statement:<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\"><b>Type:<\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial Unicode MS;font-size: medium\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\"><b>Methods used for Measurement:<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\"><b>Instruments used for Measurement:<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\">Prior to the start of the program, program staff will increase participation and engagement in nutrition and diet knowledge with at least 50% of Indianapolis teens<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\">Process<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\">Pre\/post-test<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\">Attendance and end of program participation questionnaire<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\">After participating in program lessons on diet and health, at least 75% of teens will be able to identify the nutrition definition of diet, understand the risks of restrictive dieting, and identity positive diet behaviors for their own lives.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\">Impact (Awareness Level)<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\">Pre\/post-test<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\">End of program participation questionnaire<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\">By the end of the program, at least 50% of participating students will be able to claim a positive body image or be making its development a priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\">Impact (Attitude level)<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\">Pre\/post-test<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\">End of program participation questionnaire<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\">By the end of the program, a majority of participating students will show health promotion communication skills through the completion of a social media campaign.<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\">Impact (Skill Level)<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\">Post-test<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\">Presentation and share of campaign<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\">Over the course of a year, Indianapolis teens would experience a significant decrease in obesity outcomes.<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\">Outcome<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\">BMI and Waist Circumference<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Avenir Next;font-size: medium\">A standard scale and\/or a stadiometer and a tape measure<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Statement: Through education and community building, we promote well-informed food choices and health-focused mindset shifts in diet behaviors among US high school students. Goals: High school students in Indianapolis will learn to redefine diet and learn about health and nutrition from a health-focused mindset rather than a weight-focused mindset as a group based in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/mission_statement_goals_and_objectives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mission Statement, Goals, and Objectives&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3392,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-831","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":830,"date":"2020-01-30T20:31:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/healthcommunicationtemplate\/?page_id=830"},"modified":"2020-08-22T20:30:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T20:30:35","slug":"program_rationale","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/program_rationale\/","title":{"rendered":"Program Rationale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A rationale for the development of an anti-restrictive diet behaviors-based program to reduce obesity<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Submitted by Natalie Harris<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, obesity is a significant health concern, and obesity prevalence increases with age. With the highest rate among youth, 12- to 19-year-old teens reached 20.6% obesity prevalence in the US by 2016 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2019). In the state of Indiana, 15.9% of adolescents were overweight and 12.8% were obese (CDC, 2012). If we combine those statistics, at about 28.7%, and if we applied that percentage to COVID-19 cases, almost 95 million people would be infected with the virus compared to the almost 5.6 million reported cases as of late August 2020 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2020; CDC, 2020). Indiana currently \u201cranks 13th in the country for obesity rates\u201d within this age bracket (Barrett, 2019). This program seeks to address obesity in a target population of public high school students in the city of Indianapolis (U.S. Census Bureau, 2019). More specifically, this geographic area will comprise Marion county, which had 6,852 students enrolled in high school for the 2019-2020 school year (Indiana Department of Education [IDOE], 2019).<\/p>\n<p>While weight loss and weight management are popular solutions to correct for obesity risk, there are repercussions to a diet and weight-focused approach. Research shows dieting and unhealthy weight control behaviors are correlated with higher BMI outcomes (Neumark-Sztainer, Wall, Story, &amp; Standish, 2012). The Health-Focused Mindset (HFM) Program will address adolescent obesity risk and prevalence by focusing on the mal-effects of restrictive diet culture and misinformation about overall healthful diets in high school teens in Indianapolis, Indiana. The HFM Program will use a health-focused diet approach through classroom-based nutrition lessons with participating high schools and a culmination social media-based health promotion project. According to research from the Pew Research Center, most teens acknowledge the potential pitfalls of consistent social media use, while also citing three beneficial outcomes of social media engagement: \u201cincluding strengthening friendships, exposing them to different viewpoints and helping people their age support causes they care about\u201d (Anderson &amp; Jiang, 2018). Social media has even proved to be a unifying and impactful force in the recent Black Lives Matter movement amidst varying forms of the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine (Lorenz &amp; Rosman, 2020). The social media health promotion campaign will help participating high school students learn to communicate and share health information, thus providing effective engagement\u00a0and creating social support both in their project group and in a virtual setting.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>High school students begin to have more agency in their own behavior patterns, yet they encounter confusion when making their own food choices. Teaching these students skills at this point in their development could help them improve their \u201csense of competence and control over their own food choices\u201d (Contento, 2020). Not only does the HFM program benefit students individually, but it helps students understand their relationship with body image and diet, which can create positive outcomes in the school environment. \u201cBody image during adolescence is influenced by factors including self-esteem, gender, media messages, and pressure or support from peers and family,\u201d and when students develop a sense of self-worth and a positive self-image, they are more likely to have higher levels of contentedness (O\u2019Dea, 2012). This contentedness can serve as a \u201cprotective factor in terms of better mental health and social behavior,\u201d thereby impacting social environments in schools (O\u2019Dea, 2012). Body image and self-worth can also impact academic performance, as well as sporting ability and participation (O\u2019Dea, 2012).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Much like other school-based peer-mentoring health programs, this program will facilitate engagement and thus impact long-term behavior change and sustainability. The social media-based health promotion project will function like a modified peer mentoring program, such as the Choose Health Action Teens (CHAT) program through Cornell University (Cornell University Division of Nutritional Sciences, 2020). Peer education has been shown to \u201cimprove social learning and provide psychosocial support\u201d (Abdi &amp; Simbar, 2013). Late adolescents rarely adhere to recommended healthy behaviors, especially behaviors regarding healthy eating and consumption (Banspach et al., 2016). The HFM Program gives high school students an opportunity to take ownership of their diet, influence sustainable behavior change, and have more agency to impact change in their environment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>References<\/p>\n<p>Abdi, F., &amp; Simbar, M. (2013). The Peer Education Approach in Adolescents- Narrative Review<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Article. <i>Iranian journal of public health<\/i>, <i>42<\/i>(11), 1200\u20131206.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson, M., &amp; Jiang, J. (2018, November 28). Teens&#8217; Social Media Habits and Experiences.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Retrieved from https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/internet\/2018\/11\/28\/teens-social-media-habits-and-experiences\/.<\/p>\n<p>Barrett, C. (2019, October 14). Indiana&#8217;s Childhood Obesity Rate Poor Yet Steady. Retrieved<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>from https:\/\/www.wfyi.org\/news\/articles\/indianas-childhood-obesity-rate-poor-yet-steady.<\/p>\n<p>Bell, B. T. &amp; Dittmar, H. (2011). Does media type matter? The role of identification in<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>adolescent girls\u2019 media consumption and the impact of different thin-ideal media on body<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>image. <i>Sex roles<\/i>, <i>65<\/i>(7-8), 478.<\/p>\n<p>Castro, K. (2018). How is Diet Culture Affecting Me? Retrieved from https:\/\/youngwomenshealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/How-is-Diet-Culture-Affecting-Me.pdf.<\/p>\n<p>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2012, September). State of Indiana: Nutrition,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Physical Activity, and Obesity. Retrieved from https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/obesity\/stateprograms\/fundedstates\/pdf\/Indiana-State-Profile.pdf.<\/p>\n<p>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2019, June 24). Childhood Obesity Facts. Retrieved<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>from https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/obesity\/data\/childhood.html.<\/p>\n<p>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2020, August 21). Cases in the U.S. (COVID-19).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Retrieved from https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/cases-updates\/cases-in-us.html.<\/p>\n<p>Chastain, R. (2019, May 02). Recognizing and Resisting Diet Culture. Retrieved from https:\/\/www.nationaleatingdisorders.org\/blog\/recognizing-and-resisting-diet-culture.<\/p>\n<p>Contento, I. R. (2020). <i>Nutrition education: Linking research, theory, and practice<\/i> (3rd ed.).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Jones &amp; Bartlett Learning.<\/p>\n<p>Cornell University Division of Nutritional Sciences. (2020). CHAT Choose Health Action Teens.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Retrieved from https:\/\/fnec.cornell.edu\/for-partners\/programs\/chat\/.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana Department of Education. (2019). DOE Compass. Retrieved from https:\/\/compass.doe.in.gov\/dashboard\/enrollment.aspx?type=corp.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenz, T., &amp; Rosman, K. (2020, June 16). High School Students and Alumni Are Using Social<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Media to Expose Racism. Retrieved from https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/16\/style\/blm-accounts-social-media-high-school.html.<\/p>\n<p>Neumark-Sztainer, D., Wall, M., Story, M., &amp; Standish, A. R. (2012). Dieting and unhealthy<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>weight control behaviors during adolescence: associations with 10-year changes in body<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>mass index. <i>Journal of Adolescent Health<\/i>, <i>50<\/i>(1), 80-86.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Dea, J. A. (2012). Body image and self-esteem. In T. F. Cash (Ed.), <i>Encyclopedia of body<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i style=\"font-size: 1rem\">image and human appearance<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> (pp. 141\u2013147). Elsevier Academic Press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Census Bureau. (2019, July 1). U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Indiana; Indianapolis city<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>(balance), Indiana. Retrieved from https:\/\/www.census.gov\/quickfacts\/fact\/table\/IN,indianapoliscitybalanceindiana\/PST045219.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2017). <i>Dietary guidelines for Americans<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i style=\"font-size: 1rem\">2015-2020<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">. Skyhorse Publishing Inc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>United States Census Bureau. (2020). U.S. and World Population Clock. Retrieved from https:\/\/www.census.gov\/popclock\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rationale for the development of an anti-restrictive diet behaviors-based program to reduce obesity Submitted by Natalie Harris In the United States, obesity is a significant health concern, and obesity prevalence increases with age. With the highest rate among youth, 12- to 19-year-old teens reached 20.6% obesity prevalence in the US by 2016 (Centers for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/program_rationale\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Program Rationale&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3392,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-830","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":8,"date":"2019-08-05T15:41:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T15:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/healthcommunication\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2020-08-22T15:31:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T15:31:01","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HFM Mission Statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Through education and community building, we promote well-informed food choices and health-focused mindset shifts in diet behaviors among US high school students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HFM Mission Statement: Through education and community building, we promote well-informed food choices and health-focused mindset shifts in diet behaviors among US high school students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3392,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":708,"date":"2019-08-05T15:40:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T15:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/healthcommunication\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2020-08-22T21:10:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T21:10:08","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/home\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-875 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/IMG_1307-e1598130362526-231x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/IMG_1307-e1598130362526-231x300.png 231w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/IMG_1307-e1598130362526-787x1024.png 787w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/IMG_1307-e1598130362526-768x999.png 768w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/IMG_1307-e1598130362526.png 913w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">My name is Natalie Harris, and I recently\u00a0graduated from the Master of Science in Nutrition Education\u00a0program at American University. Before pursuing graduate studies, I worked in Washington, D.C. as a School Garden Coordinator in D.C. Public Schools.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I am currently based in Indianapolis, Indiana. I grew up in the Indy area, and I am looking forward to using my degree in my community.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-851\" src=\"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/lum3n-RYqO8DhPg68-unsplash-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/lum3n-RYqO8DhPg68-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/lum3n-RYqO8DhPg68-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/lum3n-RYqO8DhPg68-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/lum3n-RYqO8DhPg68-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/lum3n-RYqO8DhPg68-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/2020\/08\/lum3n-RYqO8DhPg68-unsplash-1080x720.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;font-weight: normal;font-size: large\">Click the links on the menu at the top\u00a0to explore our pages or use the search bar above to search the site for resources you might need!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; My name is Natalie Harris, and I recently\u00a0graduated from the Master of Science in Nutrition Education\u00a0program at American University. Before pursuing graduate studies, I worked in Washington, D.C. as a School Garden Coordinator in D.C. Public Schools.\u00a0 I am currently based in Indianapolis, Indiana. I grew up in the Indy area, and I am &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3392,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-708","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/natalieaharris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}]