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Sarah Keadle Grant Announcement

Jan 14, 2019

Dr. Sarah Keadle, PhD, Kinesiology & Public Health professor, and colleagues will be researching the best ways to reduce the amount of sedentary screen time for adults outside of work and school as part of a new NIH grant. While sedentary screen time (SST; i.e., television viewing and/or video streaming outside of work and educational pursuits) consumes more than half of available discretionary time and is the single most prevalent use of time for Americans outside of work and sleep, past studies have largely focused on reducing workplace sitting.

Keadle will be working with Co-Principal Investigator Matt Buman, a mHealth behavioral interventionist at Arizona State University along with Cal Poly CHR researchers Suzanne Phelan and Todd Hagobian to develop and test approaches to reduce SST. The core intervention will include self-monitoring and behavioral target to reduce SST by 50%. Researchers will also test three different behavioral components for reducing sedentary screen time in adults ages 23-64 with overweight or obesity.

This is one of two new studies Keadle is currently overseeing. The second study, ACT24, looks at the accuracy of a mobile-based survey about daily activity, ACT24.

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Letter from the Director Winter 2019

Jan 14, 2019

Suzanne Phelan Happy New Year to the growing number of community members, students and investigators affiliated with the Center for Health Research (CHR). We look forward to more opportunities to connect with you in the coming months.

We hope that you are able to attend some of the talks in our Science of Health Disparities seminar series. As you’ll read in the newsletter, we have a series of outstanding investigators and practitioners coming to Cal Poly to present their research on how and why health disparities exist and steps we can take to enact positive change.

CHR investigators are also launching several new projects in the area of minority health, including studying the health consequences of immigrant enclaves and the use of a mobile health clinic to increase access to care among low income women and infants.

We are grateful for your collaboration and efforts to promote access to health for all in our community and beyond. Best wishes for a healthy and productive 2019.

-Suzanne Phelan, Director, Center for Health Research

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