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Melissa Kay

Assistant Professor

Duke University

United States

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Clinical Nutrition

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Pediatric Nutrition

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Obesity Prevention

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Nutrition

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Diet

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Pediatric Obesity

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Randomized Controlled Trial

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Articles23

Barriers and Facilitators Influencing Parents’ Willingness to Follow Healthcare Provider Guidance for Addressing Behaviors Linked to Early Childhood Obesity Risk: A Qualitative Descriptive Study

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2025

Whole grain intake among young children ages 12 to 48 months participating in the Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study was higher in 2016 compared to 2008

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2025

Measuring Dietary Quality Among Toddlers in the Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study, 2016, Using the New Healthy Eating Index-Toddlers-2020

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2024

Correction: Weight Gain Prevention Outcomes From a Pragmatic Digital Health Intervention With Community Health Center Patients: Randomized Controlled Trial

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2024

Awareness and Support of Responsive Bottle Feeding Among WIC Counselors and Caregivers: A Formative Qualitative Study

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2024

Weight Gain Prevention Outcomes From a Pragmatic Digital Health Intervention With Community Health Center Patients: Randomized Controlled Trial

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2024

Physical activity and sleep changes among children during the COVID-19 pandemic

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2024

Effects of a Digital Intervention to Improve DASH and Blood Pressure Among US Adults

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2024

Social Support and Breastfeeding Outcomes Among a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Population

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2023

Feasibility, Acceptability, and Initial Efficacy of a Digital Intervention to Improve Consumption of Foods Received within a National Nutrition Assistance Program

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2023

Comparing Diet Quality Indices for Low-Income 24-Month-Old Toddlers: Exploring Changes Driven by 2020–2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans

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2023

Recruitment of diverse community health center patients in a pragmatic weight gain prevention trial

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2023

Concordance in dietary intake among caregivers and infants during the period of complementary feeding: A scoping review.

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2023

Perspectives on healthy eating practices and acceptance of WIC-approved foods among parents of young children enrolled in WIC.

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2023

TV Time, Especially During Meals, is Associated with Less Healthy Dietary Practices in Toddlers.

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2023

Early Sweet Tooth: Juice Introduction During Early Infancy is Related to Toddler Juice Intake.

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2023

"We bleed for our community:" A qualitative exploration of the implementation of a pragmatic weight gain prevention trial from the perspectives of community health center professionals.

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2023

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Maternal Social Support and Relationship to Mother-Infant Health Behaviors

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2022

Patterns of Engagement With an Application-Based Dietary Self-Monitoring Tool Within a Randomized Controlled Feasibility Trial

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2022

Using Interactive Text Messaging to Improve Diet Quality and Increase Redemption of Foods Approved by the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children: Protocol for a Cohort Feasibility Study

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2021

Optimizing an Obesity Treatment Using the Multiphase Optimization Strategy Framework: Protocol for a Randomized Factorial Trial

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2021

Development and application of a total diet quality index for toddlers

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2021

Development and preliminary feasibility of ibyte4health: A mobile health (mhealth) pediatric obesity prevention intervention to engage parents with low‐income of children 2–9 years

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2021

Collaborators10

Eric Finkelstein

Professor

Duke-NUS Medical School

SINGAPORE

Michelle White

Duke University

UNITED STATES

Kathryn Pollak

Associate Director; Co-Leader- Cancer Control and Population Sciences; Professor in Population Health Sciences

Duke Cancer Institute

UNITED STATES

Nour Hammad

Harvard University

UNITED STATES

Lee Sanders

Professor

Stanford University

UNITED STATES

Jonathan Schildcrout

Vanderbilt University

UNITED STATES

Alison Ventura

Associate Professor

California Polytechnic State University

UNITED STATES

Ryan Jeffrey Shaw

Associate Professor

Duke University

UNITED STATES

Cynthia Green

Associate Professor

Duke University School of Medicine

UNITED STATES

Taylor Richardson

Assistant Professor

East Carolina University

UNITED STATES

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