French SA, Sherwood NE, Mitchell NR, Fan Y Park use is associated with less sedentary time among low-income parents and their preschool child: The NET-Works study. Prev Med Rep. 2016 Nov 10;5:7-12. eCollection 2017 Mar.
Gesell SB, Barkin SL, Ip EH, et al Leveraging Emergent Social Networks to Reduce Sedentary Behavior in Low-Income Parents With Preschool-Aged Children. SAGE Open. 2021;11(3).
Gesell SB, Barkin SL, Sommer EC, Thompson JR, Valente TW Increases in Network Ties Are Associated With Increased Cohesion Among Intervention Participants. Health Educ Behav. 2016 Apr;43(2):208-16. doi: 10.1177/1090198115599397. Epub 2015 Aug 17.
Gesell SB, Barkin SL, Valente TW Social network diagnostics: a tool for monitoring group interventions. Implement Sci. 2013 Oct 1;8:116. doi: 10.1186/1748-5908-8-116.
Gesell SB, de la Haye K, Sommer EC, Saldana SJ, Barkin SL, Ip EH Identifying Social Network Conditions that Facilitate Sedentary Behavior Change: The Benefit of Being a "Bridge" in a Group-based Intervention. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Jun 12;17(12). pii: E4197. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17124197.
Heerman WJ, Berge JM, Barkin SL Mentoring of Early-Stage Investigators When Funding Is Tight: The Childhood Obesity Prevention and Treatment Research Experience. JAMA Pediatr. 2018 Jan 1;172(1):4-6. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.3396.
Heerman WJ, Bian A, Shintani A, Barkin SL Interaction between maternal prepregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain shapes infant growth. Acad Pediatr. 2014 Sep-Oct;14(5):463-70. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2014.05.005.
Heerman WJ, Krishnaswami S, Barkin SL, McPheeters M Adverse family experiences during childhood and adolescent obesity. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2016 Mar;24(3):696-702. doi: 10.1002/oby.21413. Epub 2016 Feb 8.
Heerman WJ, Lounds-Taylor J, Mitchell S, Barkin SL Validity of the toddler feeding questionnaire for measuring parent authoritative and indulgent feeding practices which are associated with stress and health literacy among Latino parents of preschool children. Nutr Res. 2018 Jan;49:107-112. doi: 10.1016/j.nutres.2017.10.018. Epub 2017 Nov 3.
Heerman WJ, Samuels LR, Barr L, Burgess LE, Hartmann KE, Barkin SL The Effect of a General Healthy Lifestyle Intervention Delivered Around Pregnancy on Gestational Weight Gain and Infant Growth. Matern Child Health J. 2020 Nov;24(11):1404-1411. doi: 10.1007/s10995-020-02998-0.
Heerman WJ, Taylor JL, Wallston KA, Barkin SL Parenting Self-Efficacy, Parent Depression, and Healthy Childhood Behaviors in a Low-Income Minority Population: A Cross-Sectional Analysis. Matern Child Health J. 2017 May;21(5):1156-1165. doi: 10.1007/s10995-016-2214-7.
Heerman WJ, White RO, Barkin SL Advancing informed consent for vulnerable populations. Pediatrics. 2015 Mar;135(3):e562-4. doi: 10.1542/peds.2014-3041. Review.
Heerman WJ, Wilkins CH, Barkin SL Disseminating aggregate research findings to participants. Pediatr Res. 2021 Mar;89(4):714-715. doi: 10.1038/s41390-020-0995-2. Epub 2020 Jun 3.
Hudnut-Beumler J, Po'e E, Barkin S The Use of Social Media for Health Promotion in Hispanic Populations: A Scoping Systematic Review. JMIR Public Health Surveill. 2016 Jul 11;2(2):e32. doi: 10.2196/publichealth.5579. Review.
Mathieu NP, Sommer EC, Mitchell SJ, Barkin SL Urban Latino Families' Food Built Environment and Young Children's Produce Consumption. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2016;27(4):1899-1908.
Oelsner KT, Guo Y, To SB, Non AL, Barkin SL Maternal BMI as a predictor of methylation of obesity-related genes in saliva samples from preschool-age Hispanic children at-risk for obesity. BMC Genomics. 2017 Jan 9;18(1):57. doi: 10.1186/s12864-016-3473-9.
Rachal SS, Heerman WJ, Sommer EC, Martin NC, Barkin SL A longitudinal analysis of relationships between neighborhood context and underserved children's physical activity in a rapidly growing city. Prev Med Rep. 2021 Jun 11;23:101437. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2021.101437. eCollection 2021 Sep.
Reinert KR, Po'e EK, Barkin SL The relationship between executive function and obesity in children and adolescents: a systematic literature review. J Obes. 2013;2013:820956. doi: 10.1155/2013/820956. Epub 2013 Feb 21. Review.
Ruiz RM, Tracy D, Sommer EC, Barkin SL A novel approach to characterize physical activity patterns in preschool-aged children. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2013 Nov;21(11):2197-203. doi: 10.1002/oby.20560. Epub 2013 Oct 17.
Rushing A, Sommer EC, Zhao S, Po'e EK, Barkin SL Salivary epigenetic biomarkers as predictors of emerging childhood obesity. BMC Med Genet. 2020 Feb 14;21(1):34. doi: 10.1186/s12881-020-0968-7.
van Bakergem M, Sommer EC, Heerman WJ, Hipp JA, Barkin SL Objective reports versus subjective perceptions of crime and their relationships to accelerometer-measured physical activity in Hispanic caretaker-child dyads. Prev Med. 2017 Feb;95 Suppl:S68-S74. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2016.12.001. Epub 2016 Dec 6.
Interventional studies are often prospective and are specifically tailored to evaluate direct impacts of treatment or preventive measures on disease.
Observational studies are often retrospective and are used to assess potential causation in exposure-outcome relationships and therefore influence preventive methods.
Expanded access is a means by which manufacturers make investigational new drugs available, under certain circumstances, to treat a patient(s) with a serious disease or condition who cannot participate in a controlled clinical trial.
Clinical trials are conducted in a series of steps, called phases - each phase is designed to answer a separate research question.
Phase 1: Researchers test a new drug or treatment in a small group of people for the first time to evaluate its safety, determine a safe dosage range, and identify side effects.
Phase 2: The drug or treatment is given to a larger group of people to see if it is effective and to further evaluate its safety.
Phase 3: The drug or treatment is given to large groups of people to confirm its effectiveness, monitor side effects, compare it to commonly used treatments, and collect information that will allow the drug or treatment to be used safely.
Phase 4: Studies are done after the drug or treatment has been marketed to gather information on the drug's effect in various populations and any side effects associated with long-term use.