Health & Culture Project: Cultural Factors Underlying Obesity in African-American Adolescents

Participants completed anthropometric measurements and questionnaires assessing psychosocial stress, habitual dietary intake and physical activity as well as cultural identity, identity-based motivation and socioeconomic status. At home, participants recorded their habitual physical activity and food intake. Participants then returned to the laboratory to complete an assessment of identity-based motivation and received personalized information regarding their habitual physical activity and dietary patterns.