Tovar Alison, Boulos Rebecca, Sliwa Sarah, Must Aviva, Gute David M, Metayer Nesly, Hyatt Raymond R, Chui Kenneth, Pirie Alex, Luongo Christina Kamis, Economos Christina
Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Rhode Island, 112 Ranger Hall, Kingston, RI, 02881, USA,
J Immigr Minor Health. 2014 Jun;16(3):457-65. doi: 10.1007/s10903-013-9778-8.
The goal of this paper is to describe the baseline characteristics of Live Well (intervention to prevent weight gain in recent immigrant mother-child dyads from Brazil, Haiti, and Latin America) participants, and to explore self-reported changes in diet and physical activity post-immigration. Baseline data from 383 mothers were used for this study. Dyads attended a measurement day where they completed self-administered surveys collecting information about socio-demographics, diet, physical activity, other psychosocial variables, and height and weight. Haitian mothers' socio-demographic profile differed significantly from that of Brazilians' and Latinas': they have been in the US for a shorter period of time, have higher rates of unemployment, are less likely to be married, more likely to have ≥3 children, more likely to be obese, and have immigrated for family or other reasons. In multivariate models, self-reported changes in diet and physical activity since migrating to the US were significantly associated with BMI with non-linear relationships identified. Future research is needed to understand how diet and physical activity change while acculturating to the US and explore the adoption of both healthy and unhealthy dietary changes.
本文旨在描述“生活得好”项目（一项针对来自巴西、海地和拉丁美洲的新移民母婴二元组预防体重增加的干预措施）参与者的基线特征，并探讨移民后自我报告的饮食和身体活动变化。本研究使用了383名母亲的基线数据。二元组参加了一个测量日，在那里他们完成了自我管理的调查问卷，收集有关社会人口统计学、饮食、身体活动、其他心理社会变量以及身高和体重的信息。海地母亲的社会人口统计学特征与巴西母亲和拉丁裔母亲有显著差异：她们在美国的时间较短，失业率较高，结婚的可能性较小，生育≥3个孩子的可能性更大，肥胖的可能性更大，并且移民的原因是家庭或其他因素。在多变量模型中，自移民到美国以来自我报告的饮食和身体活动变化与体重指数显著相关，并确定了非线性关系。需要进一步的研究来了解在适应美国文化的过程中饮食和身体活动是如何变化的，并探索健康和不健康饮食变化的采用情况。
