SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report
Sections
Status: Approved
Basic Information
- Project No. and Title: W2194 : Children's Healthy Living Network (CHLN) in the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Region
- Period Covered: 08/08/2021 to 08/07/2022
- Date of Report: 09/09/2022
- Annual Meeting Dates: 08/08/2022 to 08/12/2022
Participants
Melanie Hingle, University of Arizona Melissa Olfert, West Virginia University Patricia Coleman, Northern Marianas College Rachel Novotny, University of Hawaii at Manoa Jean Butel, University of Hawaii at Manoa Marie Kainoa Fialkowski Revilla, University of Hawaii at Manoa Monica Esquivel, University of Hawaii at Manoa Tanisha Aflague, University of Guam Leslie Shallcross, University of Alaska Fairbanks Travis Flemming, American Samoa Community College Helen Chipman, United States Department of Agriculture- NIFA Mallory Koenings, United States Department of Agriculture- NIFA
Accomplishments
Short-Term outcomes:
Extension Sub-Group: CHL (chl-pacific.org) website updated with additional CHL-related extension tools (social marketing materials) that promote CHL health behaviors for adoption in community.
Monitoring Sub-Group: Enhanced knowledge on status of food security surveillance methods among EFNEP and other systems across the USAP. Description of status of food security prevalence and situation among EFNEP and other systems across the USAP.
Training Sub-Group: Dissemination of Open Education Resource (OER) nutrition textbook materials and increased knowledge on positive impact of OER materials on student learning outcomes. 5 Native Hawaiian dietetics students supported and provided leadership curriculum.
Outputs
Extension Sub-Group: Updated CHL website, Social marketing intervention materials, CHL Image Respository
Monitoring Sub-Group: EFNEP food security manuscript- submitted; Inventory of food security data resources across USAP region.
Training Sub-Group: OER Textbooks, Curriculum, Publications
Activities
Extension Sub-Group:
Update CHL website and add COVID-appropriate materials
- New social media marketing materials
- New trainings
- Review for ADA compliance
- Monitor website traffic/metrics pre and post
Monitoring Sub-Group:
Analyze EFNEP food security data
- TA write up instructions to get data exported at each jurisdiction
- TA to sent data and code to Melissa
- Eileen (HI), Adriene (AK), Margaret (FSM, Pohnpei, Kosrae, Chuuk coordinators travel between islands), Travis/Molly (AS), Patty (NMI),
Draft manuscript
Support incorporation into CHL FS model
Publish manuscript
Identify new opportunities to get food security questions included on surveys (Head Start, BRFSS, NCD Hybrid Survey) Community Health Centers)
Gather food security tools utilized across jurisdictions and programs
Training Sub-Group:
Maintain Human Nutrition OER textbook
Develop Lifespan Nutrition OER textbook
Revise introductory nutrition curriculum
Support the training of Native Hawaiian undergraduate students in dietetics
Offering online classes through the CHL SI
Train instructors in online education
Develop Maternal and Child Health OER Textbook
Publish findings on impact of integrated learning activities in OER
Support the training of graduate students in CHL Food Systems
Milestones
Extension Sub-Group:
- Request new resources from jurisdictions - COMPLETED
- Review existing resources on website - COMPLETED
- Remove antiquated resources - NOT STARTED*
- Review new resources for ADA compliance - NOT STARTED*
- Post new resources - NOT STARTED*
- advertise/market availability of resources -NOT STARTED*
* Due to the CHL website template not being able to be updated, the CHL Wordpress template needs to be changed. This will change the website pages. It was decided to wait until the website template has moved to the new template.
Monitoring Sub-Group:
1- send instructions to jurisdictions to download EFNEP data
2- share data with Melissa at WVU
3- Melissa- data analysis
3a -Abstract writing
3b- Abstracts submitted to APHA (6)
4- Manuscript writing
5- Submit Manuscript
6- Identify list food security data sources in retion (who, what, where)
Training Sub-Group:
Release OER textbooks (Human Nutrition and Lifespan Nutrition)
Launch revised introductory nutrition curriculum
Offer at least 3 different courses during the summer through the CHL SI
Support the graduation of at least 2 CHLD scholars
Matriculate 5 graduate students into the CHL Food Systems training program
Complete data analysis on the impacts of OER integrated learning activities
Impacts
- Strengthened capacity to address food and nutrition status of individuals and communities across the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Region through research, monitoring, and training.
Publications
Book Chapters
Suzanne Held, Alma Knows His Gun McCormick, Vanessa Simonds, Kathryn L. Braun, Linda Burhansstipanov, Emily Haozous, Valerie Rangel, Jane J. Chung-Do, Ilima Ho-Lastimosa, Rachel Novotny, and Marie Kainoa Fialkowski Revilla. Using Community-based Participatory Research to Address Indigenous Health. In: Improving Indigenous Public Health through Community-Engaged Interventions: Stories of Success. University Press of Kentucky. 2022.
Books
Collaborative Open Education Resource Textbook by faculty and students from the Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences. Human Nutrition (Version 2e). Available at: https://pressbooks.oer.hawaii.edu/humannutrition2e22/
Publications
Novotny R, Yamanaka A, Butel J, Boushey CJ, Dela Cruz R, Aflague T, Coleman, P, Shallcross L, Fleming T, Wilkens LR. Maintenance Outcomes of the Children’s Healthy Living Program on Overweight, Obesity, and Acanthosis Nigricans Among Young Children in the US-Affiliated Pacific Region: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(6):e2214802. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.14802
Dela Cruz R, Wolfe E, Yonemori KM, Fialkowski MK, Wilkens LR, Coleman P, Lameko-Mua S, Johnson E, Gilmatam D, Sigrah C, Shomour M, Remengesau S, Alfred J, Acosta M, Ettienne R, Deenik J, Aflague T, Salazar KA, Novotny R, Boushey CJ. Exploring Foods of the Pacific: Cultural Food Identity in the US Affiliated Pacific Region. Hawaii J Health Soc Welf. 2022. 81(9): 247-252 .
Mulville K, Kai J, Kearney JM, Ng-Osorio J, Boushey CJ, Fialkowski MK. A Qualitative Analysis of a Caregivers' Experience of Complementary Feeding in a Population of Native Hawaiian, Other Pacific Islander and Filipino Infants: The Timing of the Introduction of Complementary Foods, and the Role of Transgenerational Experience. Nutrients. 2022;14(16):3268. 2022 Aug 10. doi:10.3390/nu14163268
Fialkowski MK, Sandlin MR, Kai J, Ng-Osorio J, Custodio RC, Odom SK, Boyd JK, Medina C, Takahashi D, Esquivel MK. An Exploratory Mixed Method Cross-sectional Study to Identify Opportunities to Increase Enrollment and Retention of Native Hawaiian Students in an Undergraduate Dietetic Program. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2022 Aug 21:S2212-2672(22)00933-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jand.2022.08.127. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36002112.
Dela Cruz R, Wolfe E, Yonemori KM, Fialkowski MK, Wilkens LR, Coleman P, Lameko-Mua S, Johnson E, Gilmatam D, Sigrah C, Shomour M, Remengesau S, Alfred J, Acosta M, Ettienne R, Deenik J, Aflague TF, Nelson R, Salazar KA, Novotny R, Boushey CJ. Consumption of Traditional Fruits and Vegetables among Children in the US-Affiliated Pacific Region. Curr Dev Nutr. 2022 Jun 16;6(7):nzac101. doi: 10.1093/cdn/nzac101. PMID: 35854938; PMCID: PMC9283104.
Joo KA, Fialkowski MK, Esquivel M, Haumea SL. Hawai'i Registered Dietitian Nutritionist 2019-2020 Workforce Assessment. Hawaii J Health Soc Welf. 2022 Apr;81(4 Suppl 2):31-38. PMID: 35495070; PMCID: PMC9036456.
Kai J, Chen JJ, Braun KL, Kaholokula JK, Novotny R, Boushey CJ, Fialkowski MK. Associations between Cultural Identity, Household Membership and Diet Quality among Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and Filipino Infants in Hawai'i. Children (Basel). 2022 Jan 2;9(1):48. doi: 10.3390/children9010048. PMID: 35053673; PMCID: PMC8774442.
Yamanaka AB, Davis JD, Wilkens LR, Hurwitz EL, Fialkowski MK, Deenik J, Guerrero RT, Novotny R. Peer Reviewed: Determination of Child Waist Circumference Cut Points for Metabolic Risk Based on Acanthosis Nigricans, the Children’s Healthy Living Program. Preventing Chronic Disease. 2021;18.2021;18:210021. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5888/pcd18.210021
Abstracts
1West Virginia University, 2University of Guam, 3Cooperative Research and Extension, College of Micronesia
1Northern Marianas College, CNMI, 2West Virginia University, 3College of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Guam