African American Women’s Daily Life Study
AAWDLS
Dietary quality and physical activity are shaped by decisions throughout the day. Yet, little is known about the factors that affect people’s decisions on a day-to-day basis. Environmental, interpersonal, and personal factors that vary across the day or day-to-day may affect these decisions. The goal of the African American Women’s Daily Life Study is to understand the role of environmental factors such as access to food and recreational facilities and personal factors like psychosocial stress to within-person variations in diet and physical activity behaviors. For one week, women were asked to complete surveys five times per day on study-provided smartphones, wear an accelerometer to measure physical activity and a GPS tracker to measure where they went and spent time, and complete three interviews (24-hour recalls) on their food intake.
This research was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars Program (68033), the Midwest Roybal Center for Health Promotion and Translation (2P30AG022849), and the UIC Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy.
Publications and Presentations Heading link
Ghosh Roy P, Jones KK, Martyn-Nemeth P, & Zenk SN. (2019). Contextual correlates of energy-dense snack food and sweetened beverage intake across the day in African American women: An application of ecological momentary assessment. Appetite, 132, 73-81.
Horoi I, Zenk SN, & Jones KK. (2015). Does access to recreational open space in one’s daily activity space promote physical activity: A day-level EMA study of African American women. American Public Health Association, Chicago, IL (Oral)
Jones KK, Zenk SN, Duran A, & Matthews S. (2015). GPS-derived fast food restaurant exposures and dietary choice in African American women. American Public Health Association, Chicago, IL (Oral)
Jones K, Zenk SN, & Matthews S. (2014). Relative contributions of residential neighborhood and activity space recreational open space to physical activity in African American women. American Public Health Association, New Orleans, LA (Poster)
Jones K & Zenk SN (2015). Fast food restaurant exposures and dietary intakes in African-American women. Midwest Nursing Research Society, Indianapolis, IN (Poster)
Jones K, Zenk SN, McDonald A, & Corte C. (2016). Experiences of African-American women with smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment. Public Health Nursing, 33, 371-380.
McDonald A, Zenk SN, Woodson Q, Dallas C, Odoms-Young A, & Smith M. (2013). Ecological momentary assessment to understand the lived experience of daily hassles in urban African-American women. Midwest Nursing Research Society, Chicago, IL (Poster)
McDonald A, Zenk SN, Woodson Q, & Smith M. (2013). Influence of daily hassles on momentary variations in positive and negative affect in African American women.American Public Health Association, Boston, MA (Poster)
Smith M, Zenk SN, McDonald A, Corte C, Finnegan L, & Bontu A. (2013). Ecological momentary assessment of physical activity in African-American women: Facilitators and barriers. Midwest. Nursing Research Society, Chicago, IL (Poster)
Woodson Q, Zenk SN, McDonald A, Dallas CM, & Odoms-Young A. (2013). Daily hassles in urban African-American women: Influence of gender roles, race, and context. Midwest Nursing Research Society, Chicago, IL (Poster)
Woodson Q, Zenk SN, McDonald A, Dallas CM, Odoms-Young A. (2012). The unique experience of daily hassles among African American women. Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, San Jose, CA (Oral)
Zenk SN, Dallas C, Odoms-Young A, McDonald A, Woodson Q, & Murphy M. (2012). Daily hassles and diet among African American women. State of the Science Congress on Nursing
Zenk SN, Horoi I, Jones K, & Duran AC. (2014). Real-time assessment of food and social environments and dietary intakes in African American women. American Public Health Association, New Orleans, LA (Poster)
Zenk SN, Horoi I, Jones KJ, Finnegan L, Corte C, Riley B, & Wilbur J. (2017). Environmental and personal correlates of physical activity and sedentary behavior in African American women: An ecological momentary assessment study. Women & Health, 57, 446-462.
Zenk SN, Horoi I, McDonald A, Corte C, Riley B, & Odoms-Young A. (2014). Ecological momentary assessment of environmental and personal factors and snack food intake in African American women. Appetite, 83, 333-341.
Zenk SN, McDonald A, Corte C, Odoms-Young A, Horoi I, & Riley B. (2014). Real-time fluctuations in environmental context and snack food intake in black women in Chicago. International Conference on Urban Health, Manchester, United Kingdom (Oral)
Zenk SN, McDonald A, Corte C, Odoms-Young A, Horoi I, & Riley B. (2014). Stress-environment interactions and snack food intake in black women in Chicago: An ecological momentary assessment study. International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, San Diego, CA (Oral)
Zenk SN, McDonald A, Corte C, Odoms-Young A, & Riley B. (2013). Momentary variations in snack food intake and physical activity in African American women: Role of stress and emotions. American Public Health Association, Boston, MA (Oral)