Mary Story
Duke University
526 Papers
6.1K Citations
Mary Story is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Population. The author has an hindex of 135, co-authored 522 publications. Previous affiliations of Mary Story include Durham University & University of Minnesota.
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Papers
•Journal Article
Recruitment of African-American pre-adolescent girls into an obesity prevention trial: The GEMS pilot studies
Mary Story,Nancy E. Sherwood,Eva Obarzanek,Bettina M. Beech,Janice Baranowski,Nikko S. Thompson,Ayisha S. Owens,Megan Mitchell,James Rochon +8 more
TL;DR: The GEMS experience demonstrates the feasibility of recruiting and enrolling African-American girls in short-term intervention studies of behavior change, and the multiple recruitment strategies, which included developing trusting relationships in the respective communities, were considered critical to the success of recruitment.
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HOME Plus: Program design and implementation of a family-focused, community-based intervention to promote the frequency and healthfulness of family meals, reduce children’s sedentary behavior, and prevent obesity
Colleen Flattum,Michelle Draxten,Melissa L. Horning,Jayne A. Fulkerson,Dianne Neumark-Sztainer,Ann W. Garwick,Martha Y. Kubik,Mary Story +7 more
TL;DR: Findings support the value of a community-based, family-focused intervention program to promote family meals, limit screen time, and prevent obesity.
•Journal Article
Common design elements of the Girls health Enrichment Multi-site Studies (GEMS).
James Rochon,Robert C. Klesges,Mary Story,Thomas N. Robinson,Tom Baranowski,Eva Obarzanek,Megan Mitchell +6 more
TL;DR: This report presents the basic study design, a brief overview of the interventions, the measurements taken and their rationale, and procedures both for compiling the collaborative database, and performing site-specific analyses of the GEMS Phase 1 pilot studies.
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Weight-Related Teasing in a Racially Diverse Sample of Sixth-Grade Children
Lacey McCormack,Melissa N. Laska,Clifton Gray,Sara Veblen-Mortenson,Daheia J. Barr-Anderson,Mary Story +5 more
TL;DR: Results suggest that weight-related teasing is a problem for children, especially those who are overweight or obese, and a better understanding is needed of the long-term effects of teasing on behavioral and psychosocial outcomes in racially/ethnically diverse samples of children.
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Nutrition labeling and value size pricing at fast-food restaurants: a consumer perspective.
Maureen O'Dougherty,Lisa J. Harnack,Simone A. French,Mary Story,J. Michael Oakes,Robert W. Jeffery +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a pilot study examined nutrition-related attitudes that may affect food choices at fast-food restaurants, including consumer attitudes toward nutrition labeling of fast foods and elimination of value size pricing.
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