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Overview

Dawn K. Wilson is affiliated with the University of South Carolina in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Medicine, Psychology, and Health Professions, with particular focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Physiology, and Applied Psychology as subfields of study.

Their primary research topics include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet; Physical Activity and Health; Behavioral Health and Interventions; Eating Disorders and Behaviors; Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development; Obesity and Health Practices; and Health and Lifestyle Studies.

Wilson has contributed to several scientific publications, with recent papers including:

  • Father Involvement in Infant Parenting in an Ethnically Diverse Community Sample: Predicting Paternal Depressive Symptoms, 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • The Results of the Families Improving Together (FIT) for Weight Loss Randomized Trial in Overweight African American Adolescents, 2022, Annals of Behavioral Medicine
  • Improving Recruitment, Retention, and Cultural Saliency of Health Promotion Efforts Targeting African American Men: A Scoping Review, 2021, Annals of Behavioral Medicine
  • A Strategic Plan for Strengthening America's Families: A Brief from the Coalition of Behavioral Science Organizations, 2020, Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
  • Defining Valid Activity Monitor Data: A Multimethod Analysis of Weight-Loss Intervention Participants' Barriers to Wear and First 100 Days of Physical Activity, 2021, Informatics

Wilson frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Allison M. Sweeney, Nicole Zarrett, Mary Quattlebaum, M. Lee Van Horn, and Demetrius A. Abshire.

The scholar's work has been featured prominently in several publication venues such as:

  • Annals of Behavioral Medicine
  • Journal of Behavioral Medicine
  • Nutrients
  • Translational Behavioral Medicine
  • Health Psychology

Best Publications

  • How many days of pedometer monitoring predict weekly physical activity in adults

    C. Tudor-Locke;L. Burkett;J.P. Reis;B.E. Ainsworth

  • Associations of Perceived Social and Physical Environmental Supports With Physical Activity and Walking Behavior

    Cheryl L. Addy;Dawn K. Wilson;Karen A. Kirtland;Barbara E. Ainsworth

  • Socioeconomic status and perceptions of access and safety for physical activity.

    Dawn K. Wilson;Karen A. Kirtland;Barbara E. Ainsworth;Cheryl L. Addy

  • The Integration of a Family Systems Approach for Understanding Youth Obesity, Physical Activity, and Dietary Programs

    Heather Kitzman-Ulrich;Dawn K. Wilson;Sara M. St. George;Hannah Lawman

  • Effects of diet and exercise interventions on control and quality of life in non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.

    Robert M. Kaplan;Sherry L. Hartwell;Dawn K. Wilson;Janet P. Wallace

  • Compliance to health recommendations: a theoretical overview of message framing

    Dawn K. Wilson;Scot E. Purdon;Kenneth A. Wallston

  • Ambulatory Blood Pressure Recordings in Children and Adolescents

    Gregory A. Harshfield;Bruce S. Alpert;Derrick A. Pulliam;Grant W. Somes

  • New Perspectives on Health Disparities and Obesity Interventions in Youth

    Dawn K. Wilson

  • A qualitative study of parental modeling and social support for physical activity in underserved adolescents

    Marcie S. Wright;Dawn K. Wilson;Sarah Griffin;Alexandra Evans

  • Motivational versus social cognitive interventions for promoting fruit and vegetable intake and physical activity in African American adolescents.

    Dawn K. Wilson;Ronald Friend;Nicole Teasley;Sabra Green

  • An Evidence-based Guide for Obesity Treatment in Primary Care

    Stephanie L Fitzpatrick;Danielle Wischenka;Bradley M Appelhans;Lori Pbert

  • A Preliminary Test of a Student-Centered Intervention on Increasing Physical Activity in Underserved Adolescents

    Dawn K. Wilson;Alexandra E. Evans;Joel Williams;Gary Mixon

  • The association of self-efficacy and parent social support on physical activity in male and female adolescents.

    Michelle S. Peterson;Hannah G. Lawman;Dawn K. Wilson;Amanda Fairchild

  • Perceptions of environmental supports for physical activity in African American and white adults in a rural county in South Carolina.

    Steven P. Hooker;Dawn K. Wilson;Sarah F. Griffin;Barbara E. Ainsworth

  • Results of the “Active by Choice Today” (ACT) Randomized Trial for Increasing Physical Activity in Low-Income and Minority Adolescents

    Dawn K. Wilson;M. Lee Van Horn;Heather Kitzman-Ulrich;Ruth P. Saunders

  • Brief Report: A Qualitative Study of Gender Preferences and Motivational Factors for Physical Activity in Underserved Adolescents

    Dawn K. Wilson;Joel Williams;Alexandra Evans;Gary Mixon

  • Effects of Contract Framing, Motivation to Quit, and Self‐Efficacy on Smoking Reduction1

    Dawn K. Wilson;Kenneth A. Wallston;Joan E. King

  • Violence exposure, catecholamine excretion, and blood pressure nondipping status in African American male versus female adolescents

    Dawn K. Wilson;Wendy Kliewer;Nicole Teasley;Laura Plybon

  • Socioeconomic Status and Blood Pressure Reactivity in Healthy Black Adolescents

    Dawn K. Wilson;Wendy Kliewer;Laura Plybon;Domenic A. Sica

  • Awareness and use of community walking trails

    Julian A. Reed Reed;Barbara E. Ainsworth;Dawn K. Wilson;Gary Mixon

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara E. Ainsworth
Barbara E. Ainsworth Arizona State University
Wendy Kliewer
Wendy Kliewer Virginia Commonwealth University
Kenneth A. Wallston
Kenneth A. Wallston Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Mark D. Weist
Mark D. Weist University of South Carolina
Daniel J. Feaster
Daniel J. Feaster University of Miami
Abraham Wandersman
Abraham Wandersman University of South Carolina
Alan J. Christensen
Alan J. Christensen East Carolina University
Alan M. Delamater
Alan M. Delamater University of Miami
Kenneth E. Freedland
Kenneth E. Freedland Washington University in St. Louis
Stephen Kresovich
Stephen Kresovich Clemson University

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