Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

October 27, 2010 9:30 am Janet Kurzynske, W1005 Chair, called the meeting to order. Introductions of current and new members, opening remarks by Joy Winzerling, Kay Hongu, and Linda Houtkooper Susan Welsh provided an overview of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), organizational structure, key personnel of NIFA, and program area priorities. Susan Welsh provided an update of NIFA, next funding announcements should be out in December, most of the funding will be for integrated projects; the targeted age group will be 914 year olds. Dietary Guidelines for Americans will be out in December, MyPyramid out next spring and will include more materials for consumers, Healthy People 2020 will include additional dietary information, and Dietary Guidelines for Americans evidence-based library is available to everyone. There was an inquiry of the status for a 1-year extension for W1005. Linda Houtkooper stated that Ron Pardini told her the extension would probably be granted. Discussion ensued about extending W1005 for one year to complete objectives 13 and submitting a new proposal for continuing the work of W1005 to accomplish objectives 4 and possibly 5. Susan Welsh stated that the proposal for the 1-year extension is due January 15, 2011, and if approved, would extend W1005 from October 1, 2011, to September 30, 2012. Discussion of the location for W1005 next years meeting in October 2011. The location was decided, with no objections from committee members, as Las Vegas, Nevada. Anne Lindsay and Madeleine Sigman-Grant will assist with coordinating next years meeting in Las Vegas. The meeting dates were selected as October 6-7, 2012. Janet Kurzynske asked the groups working with W1005 Objectives 1, 2, and 3 to summarize their accomplishments for the past year. New members asked if an overview of W1005 could be provided prior to the summaries. Madeleine Sigman-Grant presented an overview of W1005. See summary in accomplishment section. Members split into three groups for work on group Objectives 13. 5:30: Meeting ended for the day; reconvene at 8:30 in the morning. October 28, 2010 8:30: Meeting reconvened. Janet Kurzynske announced there were requests for group work to continue for Objectives 13. She also announced that due to some members having to leave before 5:00 to catch early flights, lunch would be a working lunch with attendees purchasing food in the building (Student Union) and bringing their lunches back to the conference room to continue the meeting. There were no objections and group work continued with W1005 Objectives 13. Members reconvened about 11:15 as one group. Officers for W1005 were decided: Chair: Janet Kurzynske is the current Chair and agreed to continue Co-Chair: Vivian Haley-Zitlin accepted to be Co-Chair Secretary: Diane Tidwell is the current secretary and agreed to continue There was much discussion about Objective 4 and if Objective 5 should be attempted. Beginning work on Objective 4 was discussed. Objective 4 is to determine appropriate tools to effectively measure salient behavioral differences between low-income families in the parent-child relationships identified in Objective 3 for the community setting. The purpose is to develop a guide to identify behaviors to be targeted in interventions and identify methods for evaluating success. Specific work for objectives was discussed. After much discussion, the consensus was: 1. Compare and contrast perceptions and practices of frontline educators and parents related to obesity prevention. 2. Identify the match and mismatch between educators and parents practices and compare those with established national guidelines in order to identify potential training, research, programming, and policy needs. 3. Refine the characteristics of parents and families that lead to childrens healthful behaviors, BMI, and other health-related outcomes based on data collected previously. The Chair, Janet Kurzynske, reminded everyone that she needs a report from the leaders of each group within 30 days (Obj. 1 Jill Shultz, Obj. 2 Melinda Manore, and Obj. 3 Madeleine Sigman-Grant). She also asked for the Objective 3 group to decide which part of Objective 4 they were going to work on and to report that to her. There will be a conference call for leaders of the Objectives to develop the new proposal to continue with the work of W1005. 2:45: Janet Kurzynske asked if further business, discussion, or other matters pertaining to W1005 were needed and with no input from the members, the meeting was adjourned at 2:45, Thursday, October 28, 2010. Minutes of the annual W1005 meeting respectfully submitted by Diane Tidwell, Secretary

Objective 1: This group is conducting an expert field review of key behavioral measures purported to contribute to excessive weight gain in children 4-10 yrs of age. Experts = EFNEP/SNAP-Ed supervisors and staff. Methods document and plan written to guide collaborative data collection for two project stages (led by WA, NY members) was developed in that this will involve in-depth interviews with Extension educators, Project 2 is a survey designed on that data. Sampling frames and multistate sampling grid were determined. Data collection instruments were designed and peer reviewed (multi-state), and pre-tested. Data analysis training session was conducted and designed. Findings are centered on: 1) family behaviors associated with less healthful eating and/or sedentary lifestyle; 2) what kind of EFNEP or SNAP-Ed programming is particularly successful for helping families eat more healthfully and become or stay physically active. The group met eight times (phone conferences) and conducted expert field reviews of EFNEP and SNAP-Ed frontline staff (program assistants and classroom educators) and their supervisors. Data collected included urban and rural, Hispanic and non-Hispanic, and age group of children, all were approximately 30-minute telephone interviews. Education practices were identified in SNAP-Ed towards obesity prevention, outcomes, success stories, healthy eating and physical activity, 12 questions were opinions of front-line staff, questions 13-18 were demographics and information of the groups they were working with, IRB approved the project, training session for content analysis in August, currently collecting data in Washington state, eastern Kentucky, Nevada, Nebraska, Arizona, South Carolina, others were not present to report their data collection, about half the sample is completed. Susan Welsh noted that this is unique in regards to field-informed data or field-driven research; the field is informing the researchers versus research driving the direction of the field. Objective Group 2: This group identified anthropometric, fitness, physical activity and physiological measures that could be used to differentiate families within the target population in the community setting. We conducted an extensive literature review on the above parameters to determine, which could be used in field studies for project evaluations and in research settings. Our target populations are 4-5y olds, 6-11y olds and parents (adults), which are supportive of the other objectives in W1005. We are now compiling and condensing our literature review into a research review manuscript for publication. Our goal is to have a manuscript submitted by July 2011. Our tentative title for the manuscript is: Field assessment for obesity prevention in children and parents: Anthropometrics, physical activity, fitness and metabolic parameters. This manuscript will emphasize field assessment but also provide the community based research or educator with more in-depth assessment parameters that could be used in a research setting. Objective Group 3 Pilot Test A - How Families Eat and Play Over this past year, nine members joined together to design a research project investigating underlying factors related to eating, physical activity and parenting variables. Drs. Dickin, Hubbs-Tait and Sigman-Grant identified survey instruments and compiled a survey and interview script/ protocol for data collection. Dr. Dickin and her students at Cornell were solely responsible for creating a Microsoft Access database designed to facilitate data entry and coding across sites. She demonstrated the use of the software at the Annual Meeting, collected input and is completing the final Access program. We are planning to complete data collection by January 31, 2011. Each state will enter their data into the database and send to Dr. Dickin. She has assumed responsibility for initial data analysis. Further information regarding this is found below in the Future Plans Section. Data have been collected (about 80 completed face-to-face interviews from mothers of children 310 years old, several states are participating with data collection. The interviews/ questionnaires contain 93 questions that investigate parenting styles and behaviors with seven additional questions for demographics, background information of the mothers, and included pictures of silhouettes of seven body sizes/images (very underweight to extreme obesity) that correlate with BMI in children. The mothers are asked to identify the silhouette they think most represents their child. Heights and weights are reported or measured for mothers and children but some of the interviewers are not able to obtain that data. The interview takes approximately 45 minutes to administer. The hypothesis is that mothers with young children who exhibit controlling behaviors in parenting may have tighter control over what their children eat, portion sizes of foods, how many times a day children eat/snack, etc. Data collection is ongoing. Potential Impacts: § Qualitative data that documents Extension actions and impacts, pointing to next areas for expansion in addressing obesity prevention on a community basis; § A potential survey design based on our qualitative data to explore new programming ideas quantitatively; § Success stories (part of data collection) to highlight Extensions work across 6 states; § Strong data evidence to support a USDA-AFRI grant submission § Unique field-informed data or field-driven research; the field is informing the researchers. § Manuscript that describes field assessment for obesity prevention in children and parents: Anthropometrics, physical activity, fitness and metabolic parameters. This manuscript will emphasize field assessment but also provide the community based research or educator with more in-depth assessment parameters that could be used in a research setting.

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