TweenSPACE
TweenSPACE (Sleep Patterns, Appetite Control, and Environment) is an observational study of sleep and eating behaviors in 8–12-year-old children living in rural communities throughout the United States. Participants wore sleep trackers and completed surveys several times a day on provided smartphones over a two-week period.
Project Details
Dates: May 2022-April 2025
PI: Emily Hohman
Co-I: Orfeu Buxton, Jennifer Savage Williams
Sponsor: Penn State Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute KL2 program
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Project Goals:
- Using daily smartphone surveys, to examine the contextual factors (e.g. time of day, mood, type of location) associated with eating in the absence of hunger behavior
- To determine how the previous night’s sleep relates to eating behavior the next day
- To explore how family, child, and environmental characteristics are related to eating behavior and sleep in rural preadolescent children.
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