Abstract
The Resilience for Eating and Activity Despite Inequality (READI) cohort was established to address the following two key aims: to investigate the pathways (personal, social and structural) by which socio-economic disadvantage influences lifestyle choices associated with obesity risk (physical inactivity, poor dietary choices) and to explore mechanisms underlying 'resilience' to obesity risk in socio-economically disadvantaged women and children. A total of 4349 women aged 18-46 years and 685 children aged 5-12 years were recruited from 80 socio-economically disadvantaged urban and rural neighbourhoods of Victoria, Australia, and provided baseline (T1: 2007-08) measures of adiposity, physical activity, sedentary and dietary behaviours; socio-economic and demographic factors; and psychological, social and perceived environmental factors that might impact on obesity risk. Audits of the 80 neighbourhoods were undertaken at baseline to provide objective neighbourhood environmental data. Three-year follow-up data (2010-11) have recently been collected from 1912 women and 382 children. Investigators welcome enquiries regarding data access and collaboration.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Article number | dys165 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1629-1639 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | International journal of epidemiology |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 2013 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:NHMRC Strategic Award, ID 374241. NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship (ID 479513 to K.B.). NHMRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (ID 533917 to V.C.). VicHealth public health research fellowships (to A.T. and D.C.). National Heart Foundation of Australia Career Development Award and sanofi-aventis (to J.S.). Victorian Health Promotion Foundation Research Fellowship (Public Health) (to K.C.). Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (to L.T.). Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT100100581 to S.M.). NHMRC (to G.M.).
