scholarly journals Using focus groups to inform an intervention to promote adoption of the DGA among African American children in the Lower Mississippi Delta

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernestine B. McGee ◽  
Valerie Richardson ◽  
Glenda Johnson ◽  
Crystal Johnson
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Mississippi Delta ◽  
African American Children ◽  
American Children

Perceptions of Food Intake, Physical Activity, and Obesity Among African-American Children in the Lower Mississippi Delta

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernestine B. McGee ◽  
Valerie Richardson ◽  
Glenda Johnson ◽  
Crystal Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
African American ◽  
Food Intake ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Physical Inactivity ◽  
Mississippi Delta ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
African American Children ◽  
Environmental Determinants ◽  
American Children

Purpose. To explore the nutrition and physical activity perceptions of children for planning a healthy weight curriculum to address childhood obesity in African-American children living in the Lower Mississippi Delta (LMD). Design. Six children’s focus group sessions. Setting. Two Louisiana parishes in the LMD. Subjects. Seventy 8- to 13-year-old African-American children, 46 (66%) females and 24 (44%) males, participated in the focus group sessions. Measures. Interview questions were based on personal and environmental determinants and content and strategies for a healthy lifestyle program for children. Analysis. Focus group discussions were audio recorded and transcribed, observer recorded, and analyzed to identify recurring trends and patterns among focus groups. Content analysis consisted of coding focus group transcripts for recurrent themes and review of data by an independent reviewer to confirm the themes. Results. Emerging themes were categorized as healthy lifestyle opinions within the social cognitive theory constructs of personal and environmental determinants and curriculum content. Conclusion. LMD youth recognized a healthy eating pattern and that overweight and obesity result from poor eating habits and physical inactivity. Children’s food intake pattern did not reflect this understanding, suggesting a need for culturally tailoring an intervention to impact the poor food intake and physical inactivity in two low-income African-American Delta communities.

Final Consonant Deletion in African American Children Speaking Black English

1993 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Moran
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black English ◽  
African American Children ◽  
Vowel Length ◽  
Minimal Pairs ◽  
Speech Evaluation ◽  
American Children

The purpose of this study was to determine whether African American children who delete final consonants mark the presence of those consonants in a manner that might be overlooked in a typical speech evaluation. Using elicited sentences from 10 African American children from 4 to 9 years of age, two studies were conducted. First, vowel length was determined for minimal pairs in which final consonants were deleted. Second, listeners who identified final consonant deletions in the speech of the children were provided training in narrow transcription and reviewed the elicited sentences a second time. Results indicated that the children produced longer vowels preceding "deleted" voiced final consonants, and listeners perceived fewer deletions following training in narrow transcription. The results suggest that these children had knowledge of the final consonants perceived to be deleted. Implications for assessment and intervention are discussed.

scholarly journals Novel genetic risk factors for asthma in African American children: Precision Medicine and the SAGE II Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 68 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 391-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marquitta J. White ◽  
O. Risse-Adams ◽  
P. Goddard ◽  
M. G. Contreras ◽  
J. Adams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
African American ◽  
Precision Medicine ◽  
Genetic Risk ◽  
Genetic Risk Factors ◽  
African American Children ◽  
American Children

scholarly journals A Language Screening Protocol for Use With Young African American Children in Urban Settings

2004 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie A. Washington ◽  
Holly K. Craig
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Cognitive Assessment ◽  
Language Impairments ◽  
Nonword Repetition ◽  
African American Children ◽  
Urban Settings ◽  
Screening Protocol ◽  
Assessment Measures ◽  
American Children ◽  
Language Screening

Language screenings represent an important tool for early identification of language impairments in young children between 3 and 5 years of age. This investigation examined the utility of a well-established set of assessment measures for screening young African American children. One hundred and ninety-six children participated in the screening. Based upon the outcomes of the screening, 25 children who failed and a random sample of 56 children who passed were administered a larger language and cognitive assessment battery. Sensitivity and specificity of the screening were determined to be high. The number of different words, the Kaufman Nonverbal Scale, and nonword repetition accounted for a significant amount of the variance in performance. The screening is brief, valid, and culturally fair for use with preschool- and kindergarten-aged African American children living in urban settings.

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