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TIME (Tools, Information, Motivation and Environment) for Health: A multi-level intervention to promote healthy eating in children and their families

Members of the Faculty of Health Professions at Dalhousie and the Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre (AHPRC) have been awarded a $600,000 grant from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (HSFC) and Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Strategic Funding initiative on the Built Environment: Population Health Intervention Research.

The project, entitled TIME (Tools, Information, Motivation, Environment) for health: A multi-level intervention to promote healthy eating in children and their families. was one of only three funded across Canada. Dr. Kirk and her team will design, implement and evaluate a multi-level intervention aimed at improving family nutrition habits and incorporating a change in the built environment of recreational facilities to increase healthy food availability. The project will begin in early 2011 and will last for 3 years.

Co-Principal Investigators of the project are:

• Dr. Sara Kirk - School of Health Adminstration (SHA) and AHPRC Research Associate
• Daniel Rainham - Elizabeth May Chair in Sustainability and Environmental Health and AHPRC Research Associate

Co-investigators from the Faculty of Health Professions are:

• Cindy Shearer - AHPRC
• Andrea Chircop - School of Nursing
• Raewyn Bassett - Faculty of Health Professions (FHP)
• Celeste Alvaro - AHPRC
• Laurene Rehman - Health and Human Performance (HAHP)
• Chris Blanchard - Medicine and AHPRC Research Associate
• Raza Abidi - Health Informatics
• Dave Molloy - Nova Scotia Department of Health Promotion and Protection

Related Links:

Research Projects

• The Environment, Nutrition and Activity Project (ENACT) - Optimizing Investments in the Built Environment to Reduce Youth Obesity (2007-2012) »

Publications

• Invited commentary Running away with the facts on food and fatness »
  Kirk SF, Penney TL, Freedhoff Y. (2010). Public Health Nutrition
  13:147-148 Cambridge University Press.
  
  
• Moving governmental policies beyond a focus on individual lifestyle: some insights from complexity and critical theories »
  C. Alvaro, L.A. Jackson, S. Kirk, T.L. McHugh, J. Hughes, A. Chircop and R.F. Lyons (2010). Health Promotion International Published by Oxford University Press.
  
  
• Interventions to change the behaviour of health professionals and the organisation of care to promote weight reduction in overweight and obese people »
  KFlodgren G, Deane K, Dickinson HO, Kirk S, Alberti H, Beyer FR,
  Brown JG, Penney TL, Summerbell CD, & Eccles MP. (2010). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, issue 3. Art. No.: CD000984.
  
  
• Managing Obesity in Healthcare Settings: Stigma or Support? »
  Sara F.L. Kirk, & Tarra L. Penney.. (2010). Obesity and Weight Management, February 2010, 6(1): 21-24. © Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. .
  
  
• Characterizing the obesogenic environment: the state of the evidence with directions for future research »
  S.F.L. Kirk, T.L. Penney and T.-L.F. McHugh. (2010). Obesity Reviews Feb;11(2):109-17. Epub 2009 Jun 2. © 2009 International Association for the Study of Obesity.
  
  
• The state of obesity management for women giving birth in Atlantic Canada »
  Kirk SFL, Cramm CL, Price SL, Penney TL, Jarvie L, & Power H. (2010). Maternal and Child Health Journal, Feb;11(2):109-17. Epub 2009 Jun 2. © 2009 International Association for the Study of Obesity.
  
  
• Use and cost of health services among overweight and obese Canadian children »
  Stefan Kuhle, Sara Kirk, Arto Ohinmaa, Yutaka Yasui, Alexander C. Allen & Paul J. Veugelers. (2010). International Journal of Pediatric Obesity Early Online, 1–7. Posted online September 27, 2010.
  
  
• Exploring cues to sedentary behaviour as processes of physical activity
  action control »
  Ryan E. Rhodes, Chris M. Blanchard and Kai H. Bellows. (2008). Psychology of Sport and Exercise, Volume 9, Issue 2, March 2008, Pages 211-224.
  
  
• Do physical activity beliefs differ by age and gender? »
  Rhodes RE, Blanchard CM, and Blacklock RE. (2008). Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology Jun;30(3):412-423.
  
  
• Psychosocial correlates of cardiorespiratory fitness and muscle strength in overweight and obese post-menopausal women: a MONET study »
  Karelis AD, Fontaine J, Messier V, Messier L, Blanchard C, Rabasa-Lhoret R and Strychar I. (2008). Journal of Sport Sciences Jul;26(9):935-40.
  
  

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External links

• HSFC - Funded Research »
• Applied Research Collaborations for Health (ARCH) »

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