Sherwood, Nancy E., PhD
Former Senior Research Investigator

Publications

selected publications

Journal Article
- Association of childhood abuse with behavioral weight-loss outcomes: Examining the mediating effect of binge eating severity. Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.). 2022
- BestFIT Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial results: a SMART approach to developing individualized weight loss treatment sequences. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2022
- Applying the behavior change technique taxonomy to four multicomponent childhood obesity interventions. Western Journal of Nursing Research. 2021
- Discrepancies between clinician and participant intervention adherence ratings predict percent weight change during a six-month behavioral weight loss intervention. Translational Behavioral Medicine. 2021
- Using targeting to recruit men and women of color into a behavioral weight loss trial. Trials. 2020
- The Healthy Homes/Healthy Kids 5-10 Obesity Prevention Trial: 12 and 24-month outcomes. Pediatric Obesity. 2019
- Understanding outcomes in behavior change interventions to prevent pediatric obesity: the role of dose and behavior change techniques. Health Education and Behavior. 2019
- Clinical decision support for recognition and management of hypertension: a randomized trial. Pediatrics. 2018
- Eating, activity, and weight-related problems from adolescence to adulthood. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2018
- Evaluation of an electronic clinical decision support tool for incident elevated BP in adolescents. Academic Pediatrics. 2018
- Mediators of weight loss maintenance in the Keep It Off Trial. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2018
- Multicomponent obesity prevention intervention in low-income preschoolers: primary and subgroup analyses of the NET-Works Randomized Clinical Trial, 2012-2017. American Journal of Public Health. 2018
- Obesity in adolescence predicts lower educational attainment and income in adulthood: the Project EAT Longitudinal Study. Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.). 2018
- Weight loss strategies utilized in a men's weight loss intervention. Health Education and Behavior. 2018
- A pragmatic randomized clinical trial of behavioral activation for depressed pregnant women. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 2017
- An open trial of web-based mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for perinatal women at risk for depressive relapse. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice. 2017
- Beyond the dinner table: who's having breakfast, lunch and dinner family meals and which meals are associated with better diet quality and BMI in pre-school children?. Public Health Nutrition. 2017
- Cardiometabolic risk factors among 1.3 million adults with overweight or obesity, but not diabetes, in 10 geographically diverse regions of the United States, 2012-2013. Preventing Chronic Disease. 2017
- Exploring gender differences in a randomized trial of weight loss maintenance 2017
- Feasibility of standardized methods to specify behavioral pediatric obesity prevention interventions. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 2017
- Mental illness in bariatric surgery: a cohort study from the PORTAL network. Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.). 2017
- Multilevel interventions targeting obesity: research recommendations for vulnerable populations. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2017
- Parent choice in a pediatric obesity prevention intervention 2017
- Park use is associated with less sedentary time among low-income parents and their preschool child: the NET-Works study. Preventive medicine reports. 2017
- Predicting dietary intake among children classified as overweight or at risk for overweight: Independent and interactive effects of parenting practices and styles. Appetite. 2017
- The effect of age on the prevalence of obesity among US youth with autism spectrum disorder 2017
- A novel dietary improvement strategy: examining the potential impact of community-supported agriculture membership. Public Health Nutrition. 2016
- Change in weight status and development of hypertension. Pediatrics. 2016
- Emotional eating is associated with weight loss success among adults enrolled in a weight loss program. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 2016
- Intellectual disability is associated with increased risk for obesity in a nationally representative sample of U.S. children 2016
- Long-term microvascular disease outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes after bariatric surgery: evidence for the legacy effect of surgery. Diabetes care. 2016
- Physical changes in the home environment to reduce television viewing and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among 5- to 12-year-old children: a randomized pilot study. Pediatric Obesity. 2016
- The BestFIT trial: A SMART approach to developing individualized weight loss treatments. Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2016
- The Patient Outcomes Research To Advance Learning (PORTAL) network adult overweight and obesity cohort: development and description. JMIR research protocols. 2016
- Activity patterns of preschool-aged children at risk for obesity. Journal of physical activity & health. 2015
- Comparing US paediatric and adult weight classification at the transition from late teenage to young adulthood. Pediatric Obesity. 2015
- Does measuring body weight impact subsequent response to eating behavior questions?. Journal of the American College of Nutrition. 2015
- Eating behaviors and quality of life in preadolescents at risk for obesity with and without abdominal pain. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. 2015
- Factors associated with adherence to blood pressure measurement recommendations at pediatric primary care visits, Minnesota and Colorado, 2007-2010. Preventing Chronic Disease. 2015
- Household factors, family behavior patterns, and adherence to dietary and physical activity guidelines among children at risk for obesity. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 2015
- Mediation of weight loss and weight loss maintenance through dietary disinhibition and restraint 2015
- Objectively coding intervention fidelity during a phone-based obesity prevention study 2015
- Pediatric primary care-based obesity prevention for parents of preschool children: a pilot study 2015
- Regulatory focus, proximity to goal weight, and weight loss maintenance. American Journal of Health Behavior. 2015
- TeenBP: development and piloting of an EHR-linked clinical decision support system to improve recognition of hypertension in adolescents. EGEMS (Washington, DC). 2015
- Automating assessment of lifestyle counseling in electronic health records. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2014
- Binge eating behavior and weight loss maintenance over a 2-year period. Journal of Obesity. 2014
- Concern about child weight among parents of children at-risk for obesity 2014
- Impact of hypertension on healthcare costs among children. American Journal of Managed Care. 2014
- Initiation of oral contraceptives and changes in blood pressure and body mass index in healthy adolescents. Journal of Pediatrics. 2014
- Introduction to SMART designs for the development of adaptive interventions: with application to weight loss research. Translational Behavioral Medicine. 2014
- Predicting child physical activity and screen time: parental support for physical activity and general parenting styles. Journal of Pediatric Psychology. 2014
- Prevalence of obesity and extreme obesity in children aged 3-5 years. Pediatric Obesity. 2014
- Self-reported activity and accelerometry in 2 behavior-maintenance trials. American Journal of Health Behavior. 2014
- Severe obesity in children: prevalence, persistence and relation to hypertension. International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology. 2014
- Stage 1 treatment of pediatric overweight and obesity: a pilot and feasibility randomized controlled trial 2014
- Weight loss, glycemic control, and cardiovascular disease risk factors in response to differential diet composition in a weight loss program in type 2 diabetes: a randomized controlled trial. Diabetes care. 2014
- A multisite study of long-term remission and relapse of type 2 diabetes mellitus following gastric bypass. Obesity Surgery. 2013
- Comparative effectiveness of bariatric surgery vs. nonsurgical treatment of type 2 diabetes among severely obese adults. Obesity Research & Clinical Practice. 2013
- Enhancing long-term weight loss maintenance: 2 year results from the Keep It Off randomized controlled trial. Preventive Medicine. 2013
- Healthy Homes/Healthy Kids: a randomized trial of a pediatric primary care-based obesity prevention intervention for at-risk 5-10 year olds. Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2013
- NET-Works: Linking families, communities and primary care to prevent obesity in preschool-age children. Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2013
- Patterns of care and persistence after incident elevated blood pressure. Pediatrics. 2013
- Predictors of improvement in cardiometabolic risk factors with weight loss in women. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2013
- The authors respond: a multisite study of long-term remission and relapse of type 2 diabetes mellitus following gastric bypass. Obesity Surgery. 2013
- The epidemiology of weight counseling for adults in the United States: a case of positive deviance. International Journal of Obesity (2005). 2013
- Evaluating body mass index-specific trimester weight gain recommendations: differences between black and white women. Journal of midwifery & women's health. 2012
- Health and healing: traditional medicine and the Karen experience. Journal of Cultural Diversity. 2012
- Lifestyle patterns associated with diet, physical activity, body mass index and amount of recent weight loss in a sample of successful weight losers. The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 2012
- Relationship between sleep quality and quantity and weight loss in women participating in a weight-loss intervention trial. Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.). 2012
- Weight loss is associated with increased serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D in overweight or obese women. Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.). 2012
- A pilot study evaluating a telephone-based exercise intervention for pregnant and postpartum women. Journal of midwifery & women's health. 2011
- Keep it off: a phone-based intervention for long-term weight-loss maintenance. Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2011
- Obesogenic family types identified through latent profile analysis. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2011
- Parental perceptions of their adolescent's weight status: the ECHO study. American Journal of Health Behavior. 2011
- Body mass index measurement and obesity prevalence in ten U.S. health plans. Clinical Medicine & Research. 2010
- Effect of a free prepared meal and incentivized weight loss program on weight loss and weight loss maintenance in obese and overweight women: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA. 2010
- Long-term weight loss maintenance in the United States. International Journal of Obesity (2005). 2010
- Maintaining physical activity among older adults: 24-month outcomes of the Keep Active Minnesota randomized controlled trial. Preventive Medicine. 2010
- Population reach and recruitment bias in a maintenance RCT in physically active older adults. Journal of physical activity & health. 2010
- The drop it at last study: six-month results of a phone-based weight loss trial. American Journal of Health Promotion. 2010
- The long and winding road to physical activity maintenance. American Journal of Health Behavior. 2010
- Effect of socioeconomic status on weight change patterns in adolescents. Preventing Chronic Disease. 2009
- Five-year longitudinal predictive factors for disordered eating in a population-based sample of overweight adolescents: implications for prevention and treatment. International Journal of Eating Disorders. 2009
- Is frequent self-weighing associated with poorer body satisfaction? Findings from a phone-based weight loss trial. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 2009
- A new approach to physical activity maintenance: rationale, design, and baseline data from the Keep Active Minnesota Trial. BMC Geriatrics. 2008
- A randomized controlled trial of Telephone Counseling with smokeless tobacco users: the ChewFree Minnesota study. Nicotine & tobacco research. 2008
- Is the obesity epidemic exaggerated? No. BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 2008
- Maintaining physical activity among older adults: six-month outcomes of the Keep Active Minnesota randomized controlled trial. Preventive Medicine. 2008
- Evaluating strategies and costs to recruit smokeless tobacco users. Addictive Behaviors. 2007
- Mail and phone interventions for weight loss in a managed-care setting: weigh-to-be 2-year outcomes. International Journal of Obesity (2005). 2006
- Correlates of obesity in African-American girls: an overview. Obesity Research. 2004
- Measurement characteristics of activity-related psychosocial measures in 8- to 10-year-old African-American girls in the Girls Health Enrichment Multisite Study (GEMS). Preventive Medicine. 2004
- Measurement characteristics of weight concern and dieting measures in 8-10-year-old African-American girls from GEMS pilot studies. Preventive Medicine. 2004
- Meeting recommendations for multiple healthy lifestyle factors. Prevalence, clustering, and predictors among adolescent, adult, and senior health plan members. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2004
Chapter
- Behavioral risk factors for overweight and obesity: diet and physical activity. Nutrition in the prevention & treatment of disease. 2014
Conference Poster
Review
- Community-supported agriculture as a dietary and health improvement strategy: A narrative review [review article]. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. 2017
- The dose of behavioral interventions to prevent and treat childhood obesity: a systematic review and meta-regression [meta-analysis, review, systematic review]. The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 2017
- Deconstructing interventions: approaches to studying behavior change techniques across obesity interventions [review]. Translational Behavioral Medicine. 2016
- Managing temptation in obesity treatment: a neurobehavioral model of intervention strategies [review article]. Appetite. 2016
- Reporting of treatment fidelity in behavioural paediatric obesity intervention trials: a systematic review [review, systematic review]. Obesity Reviews. 2016
- A review of primary care-based childhood obesity prevention and treatment interventions [review] 2015
- Recruitment and retention in obesity prevention and treatment trials targeting minority or low-income children: a review of the clinical trials registration database [review]. Trials. 2015
Abstract
- How men and women keep it off: exploring gender differences in weight loss maintenance [abstract]. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2016
- Losing weight like a man: reported weight loss strategies from a men's weight loss intervention [abstract]. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2016
- Optimization of behavioral interventions: three real-world applications [abstract]. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2016
- Relation of change in weight status to the development of hypertension in children and adolescents [abstract]. Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2016
- The BestFIT Weight Loss Trial: smart study design and early implementation lessons learned [abstract]. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2016
- Uncle Sam wants you to get an NIH training grant: Everything you need to know about applying for pre-doctoral grant funding [abstract]. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2016
- Achieving clinically significant weight loss: how soon can we respond to non-responders [abstract]?. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2015
- Building and managing a clinical research team [abstract]. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2015
- Glucose screening and identification of pre-diabetes in children and adolescents 2007-2011 [abstract]. Diabetes. 2013
- Lifestyle patterns related to weight-loss maintenance [abstract]. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2013
- Weight loss and metabolic response to a commercial weight loss program in type 2 diabetes [abstract]. Diabetes. 2013
- Prevalence of HT in children: comparison between task force recommendations and average of multiple measurements over 2 or 4 years [abstract]. Clinical Medicine & Research. 2012

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