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Sara E. Schaefer
Researcher at University of California, Davis
Publications - 32
Citations - 569
Sara E. Schaefer is an academic researcher from University of California, Davis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Childhood obesity & Population. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 29 publications receiving 471 citations. Previous affiliations of Sara E. Schaefer include University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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A Multicomponent, School-Based Intervention, the Shaping Healthy Choices Program, Improves Nutrition-Related Outcomes.
Rachel E. Scherr,Jessica D. Linnell,Madan Dharmar,Lori M. Beccarelli,Jacqueline J. Bergman,Marilyn Briggs,Kelley M. Brian,Kelley M. Brian,Gail Feenstra,J. Carol Hillhouse,Carl L. Keen,Lenna Ontai,Sara E. Schaefer,Martin H. Smith,Theresa Spezzano,Theresa Spezzano,Francene M. Steinberg,Carolyn Sutter,Heather M. Young,Sheri Zidenberg-Cherr +19 more
TL;DR: The SHCP resulted in improvements in nutrition knowledge, vegetable identification, and a significant decrease in BMI percentiles, which supports the concept that the SHCP can be used to improve the health of upper elementary school students.
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Wearing, Thinking, and Moving: Testing the Feasibility of Fitness Tracking with Urban Youth
TL;DR: Mixed methods findings suggest that effecting sustainable changes in youth behavior through health tracking alone is challenging and that health tracking in similar contexts be situated within educational curricula and/or a broader intervention that facilitates and motivates continuous engagement.
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A feasibility study of wearable activity monitors for pre-adolescent school-age children.
TL;DR: The wrist-worn Polar Active was the most feasible for measuring physical activity among children aged 7 to 10 years and was associated with the highest level of compliance.
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Niños Sanos, Familia Sana: Mexican immigrant study protocol for a multifaceted CBPR intervention to combat childhood obesity in two rural California towns
Adela de la Torre,Banafsheh Sadeghi,Richard D. Green,Lucia L. Kaiser,Yvette G. Flores,Carlos F Jackson,Ulfat Shaikh,Linda Whent,Sara E. Schaefer +8 more
TL;DR: The methodology applied to develop and launch Niños Sanos, Familia Sana (Healthy Children, Healthy Family), a five-year, multi-faceted intervention study to decrease the rate of BMI growth in Mexican origin children in California’s Central Valley is described.
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The Shaping Healthy Choices Program: design and implementation methodologies for a multicomponent, school-based nutrition education intervention.
Rachel E. Scherr,Jessica D. Linnell,Martin H. Smith,Marilyn Briggs,Jacqueline J. Bergman,Kelley M. Brian,Madan Dharmar,Gail Feenstra,Carol Hillhouse,Carl L. Keen,Lori M. Nguyen,Yvonne Nicholson,Lenna Ontai,Sara E. Schaefer,Theresa Spezzano,Francene M. Steinberg,Carolyn Sutter,Janel E. Wright,Heather M. Young,Sheri Zidenberg-Cherr +19 more
TL;DR: The research methods for the Shaping Healthy Choices Program, a model to improve nutrition and health-related knowledge and behaviors among school-aged children, are described.