Project Sleep and Health In the Home Program First Year Investigators Undergraduate Research Program Term 12-Month 2023 Status Closed Research Area Sleep, Development, Metabolic Risk, Black and Latinx Families Description Sleep, Health, and the Home (SHH Study). The goal of this study is to evaluate potential mechanisms between toddler sleep patterns and obesity risk (as indexed by elevated adiposity, toddlers stress, and family risk factors). There are three areas of sleep associated with elevated risk for obesity - short sleep duration, high sleep variability, and high levels of sleep fragmentation. This research study aims to examine within the context of toddler stress and familial risk: (1) explore which toddler sleep behaviors are associated with obesity risk, and (2) delineate the concurrent pathways between family sleep-related behaviors, toddler stress and obesity risk. Supervisor A. J. Schwichtenberg Mentor Type of work required Collect, code, and process data (interviews, prepare home data collection kits, prepare hair samples for cortisol assays, score/code sleep data)
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