Olivia de Jongh Gonzalez
Postdoctoral Fellow
Overall, my research aims to advance our understanding of the ecological (and particularly familial) factors shaping health behaviors and weight trajectories of children and adolescents, identify strategies to prevent or reduce childhood obesity and promote lifelong healthy habits, and leverage technology to improve obesity-related measurement and treatment.
My main research project, funded by Michael Smith Health Research BC, aims to examine and promote positive parenting practices, with the ultimate goal of creating a familial environment that supports the development of healthy eating patterns and outdoor active play among toddlers and preschoolers. It includes 3 components:
a) A Daily Diary evaluation of within- and between-parent variations in parenting practices related to healthy habits among 2-5-year-olds
b) A Grounded Theory study to explain, from parents' perspectives, how the family shapes children’s health behaviors over time
c) A Randomized Controlled Trial testing a mobile-Health coparenting app to support children’s nutritious diet and outdoor active play
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- Don't take the context out of the picture: Contextually shaped parents' and children's obesogenic behaviors in a marginalized area of Mexico City (2022)
Appetite, , 105915 - Efficacy of the Aim2Be app in changing lifestyle behaviours among adolescents with overweight and obesity: Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint) (2022)
- The Aim2Be mHealth Intervention for Children With Overweight or Obesity and Their Parents: Person-Centered Analyses to Uncover Digital Phenotypes (2022)
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24 (6), e35285 - Are fathers' and mothers' food parenting practices differentially associated with children's eating behaviors? (2021)
Appetite, , 105434 - DON'T TAKE THE CONTEXT OUT OF THE PICTURE: SOCIOCULTURALLY SHAPED FAMILIAL AND INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIORS AMONG CHILDREN WITH OBESITY (2021)
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, - Don’t take the context out of the picture: Socioculturally shaped familial and individual behaviors among children with obesity (2021)
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 55 (Array), S164 - Identifying and predicting food parenting practice profiles among Canadian parents (2021)
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 18 (1) - The Aim2Be mHealth Intervention for Children With Overweight or Obesity and Their Parents: Person-Centered Analyses to Uncover Digital Phenotypes (Preprint) (2021)
- Food Parenting Practices and Children's Eating Behaviors: Comparing Mothers and Fathers (2020)
Current Developments in Nutrition, - Profiles of food parenting practices and associations with children’s eating behaviours (2020)
Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, - Role of parenting practices in the treatment of childhood obesity among low-income families from Mexico City (2020)
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 19, 63 - Roll of Parenting in the Treatment of Childhood Obesity in Low-Income Families From Mexico City (2020)
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, - Psicoterapia infantil: elementos distintivos y propuesta de intervención (2017)
Alternativas en Psicología, - Programa de psicoterapia grupal infantil con técnicas combinadas. (2016)
Integración Académica en Psicología,
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