Chung Gun Lee

Abstract Background Childhood obesity is a serious public health threat. Although many researchers conducted research on socioecological determinants of childhood obesity, their longitudinal effects remain inconclusive especially among young children. This study examined socioecological factors and associated transitions of children’s body mass index (BMI) status throughout children’s kindergarten to elementary school years, using data from a national longitudinal sample.

Abstract Background Sexual assault is one of potential factors that may greatly affect an individual’s sport participation. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of experiencing physically or non-physically forced sexual activity on trajectories of sport participation from adolescence to young adulthood. Methods This study used the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) data.

The present study incorporated environmental variables as precursor background variables of the TPB to predict quitting-related intentions and compared the results between Texas adult smokers and university student smokers.