Alison Tovar

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Brown University

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Alison Tovar is an Associate Professor at Brown University, located in the United States. Her research focuses on child nutrition, family feeding practices, and health promotion in early childhood education, with recent articles addressing topics such as the impact of family-style meal service on food waste and the effectiveness of interventions to improve dietary quality for low-income families. Dr. Tovar’s work aims to enhance the nutritional environments for young children and supports caregivers in adopting responsive feeding strategies.

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Health Disparities Research at UCR

Open Date: 2019-08-08

Close Date: 2024-02-29

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A Home-based Video and Motivational Interviewing Intervention to Improve Preschoolers Diet Quality and Parental Food Parenting Practices

Open Date: 2018-07-15

Close Date: 2021-06-30

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How to integrate and leverage digital health modalities for health promotion in early childhood education: Opportunities to improve intervention access and engagement

Strong Families Start at Home/Familias Fuertes Comienzan en Casa—Improving Child Diet Quality and Parental Feeding Practices: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Family child care home providers’ perceived difficulty in serving vegetables to children: findings from a multi-method study

Combined participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Head Start is associated with healthy household dietary environments for young children in low-income families

Multiple Roles and Children With Mixed-Age Groups Are Primary Challenges for Adoption of Responsive Feeding for Rural Family Child Care Home Providers

Family Style Meal Service is Associated with Reduced Plate Waste in Nebraska Family Child Care Homes

Height and Weight Measurement and Communication With Families in Head Start: Developing a Toolkit and Establishing Best Practices

Goals, Barriers, and Facilitators of Caregivers Who Participated in an In-Home Intervention to Improve Food Parenting Practices and Child Diet Quality

Illuminating Child and Adult Care Food Program Partnerships That Improved Food Access and Waiver Utilization for Feeding Young Children in Early Care and Education Programs During COVID-19: A Qualitative Study

Are Caregivers’ Feeding Competence and Autonomy Associated with Healthier Restaurant Food Purchases for Their Child at Fast Food or Counter Service Restaurants? A Cross-Sectional Study in a Diverse Sample of U.S. Caregivers

Control and Chaos: Caregiver's Basic Psychological Need Frustration is Associated With the Socioemotional Climate When Feeding

Results from the Strong Families Start at Home/Familias Fuertes Comienzan en Casa: feasibility randomised control trial to improve the diet quality of low-income, predominantly Hispanic/Latinx children

Food insecurity, food parenting practices, and child eating behaviors among low-income Hispanic families of young children

BMI Data Collection and Communication Practices in a Multistate Sample of Head Start Programs

Physical Activity and Screen Time Practices of Family Child Care Providers: Do They Meet Best Practice Guidelines?

Diet Quality and Nutrition Concerns of People with Parkinson’s Disease and Their Informal Caregivers: A Mixed Methods Study

The relationship between maternal prenatal and postnatal vegetable intake and repeated measures of infant vegetable intake frequency in a national U.S. sample

Ethnic Differences in Family Childcare Providers’ Nutrition- and Activity-Related Attitudes and Barriers

Rationale, design and study protocol of the ‘Strong Families Start at Home’ feasibility trial to improve the diet quality of low-income, ethnically diverse children by helping parents improve their feeding and food preparation practices

Socio-economic and racial prenatal diet quality disparities in a national US sample

Collaborators (12)

Dara LoBuono

Jessica Hoffman

Skye Leedahl

Jennifer Savage Williams

Virginia Stage

Saima Hasnin

Patricia Risica

Susan B. Sisson

Rebecca Lee

Emily Guseman

Sara Benjamin-Neelon

Kim Gans

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