• 103-01 -  Risk and Protective Factors of Adolescent Obesity in the Family Home Environment: A Direct Observational Approach Presented by: Jerica M. Berge, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer
• 103-02 -  The Impact of Maternal Parenting and Stress on Late Adolescent Obesity: Does Grandma Matter? Presented by: Brenda J. Lohman; Allison Flittner; Meghan T. Gillette
• 103-03 -  Influence of Parenting Style and Child Emotion Regulation on the Development, Emotional and External Eating Presented by: Glade L. Topham; Amanda W. Harrist; Laura Hubbs-Tait; Melanie Page; Lenka Shriver
• 103-04 - Paha Sapa Play it Forward: A Community-based Participatory Research Approach to Prevent Childhood Obesity Presented by: Carrie Hanson; Jerica M. Berge; William J. Doherty

Abstracts

A Family Systems Approach to Researching Childhood and Adolescent Obesity

In this symposium researchers will present studies using innovative family-level approaches in addressing childhood and adolescent obesity. Four papers will be presented that highlight: (1) direct in-home observational methods using video-recordings of family meals and in-home assessments of the home environments of children with and without obesity; (2) the use of mixed methods to triangulate data sources to gain a better understanding of the risk and protective factors for childhood obesity in the home environment; (3) dyadic data collection to assess dynamics in the home feeding environment; and (4) a community-based participatory research approach with families to prevent childhood obesity.