Healthy Living for Kids and Teens
Pilot Project 1: H-PACE: Promoting Healthy Living Through Behavior Change
This project tries simple nutrition and activity changes to help children and teens in New Mexico and Washington be healthier and lower their future cancer risk.
Quick facts
| Grant type | NIH-funded research |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | New Mexico State University Las Cruces NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Las Cruces, United States) |
| Project ID | NIH-11190920 on NIH RePORTER |
What this research studies
You and your child would be offered programs that promote healthier eating, more physical activity, and reduced screen time through school or community activities. The team may use activity trackers (like accelerometers), measure height, weight and BMI, and work with families to change daily habits. The work focuses on children and adolescents in specific counties and follows changes over time to see if the approach helps people become more active and eat better.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Ideal candidates are children and teenagers (and their families) living in the targeted New Mexico or Washington communities, especially those who are overweight or have high screen time.
Not a fit: Adults outside the targeted communities or people with serious medical limitations who cannot participate in behavior-change activities are unlikely to receive direct benefit from this project.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, the program could lower childhood obesity rates, improve lifelong health habits, and reduce future cancer and chronic disease risk linked to high childhood BMI.
How similar studies have performed: Previous behavior-change programs have sometimes improved activity and diet in kids but long-term weight and disease-risk reductions have been inconsistent, so this approach builds on mixed prior results.
Where this research is happening
Las Cruces, United States
- New Mexico State University Las Cruces — Las Cruces, United States (Active)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Magoc, Dejan — New Mexico State University Las Cruces
- Study coordinator: Magoc, Dejan
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page below.