Exploring Barriers to Treatment: Pediatric Obesity
With the funding from her K23 award (NIDDK 2001-2006), Dr. Zeller executed a study which brought both she and her lab staff into the classrooms and home environments of obese youth (ages 8-16) to document their social, emotional, and family functioning as compared to a demographically matched nonobese comparison. This rich database has identified potentially modifiable psychosocial correlates of pediatric obesity that could be targeted in intervention (e.g. social withdrawal, maternal distress, family conflict, negative mealtime interactions).
Parent and Teen Health: Weight, Attitudes and You (The PATHWAY study)
The Pathway study (2006-2008) was a follow-up Dr. Zeller’s K23 study “exploring barriers to treatment in pediatric obesity”. The main purpose of the Pathway study was to learn more about the health and emotional well-being of adolescents with persistent obesity and their families over time as compared to youth who remained non-overweight.
