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Overview

Jerica M. Berge is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research focuses on medicine, health professions, and psychology with particular attention to public health, environmental and occupational health, general health professions, clinical psychology, psychiatry, and mental health.

The scientist's work addresses topics such as obesity, physical activity, diet, food security and health in diverse populations, eating disorders and behaviors, child nutrition and feeding issues, obesity and health practices, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, and health disparities and outcomes.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Appetite
  • Preventive Medicine Reports
  • Public Health Nutrition
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Emerging Adulthood

Jerica M. Berge has collaborated often with several co-authors, including Amanda Trofholz, Katie A. Loth, Allan Tate, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, and Angela R. Fertig.

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Associations between parental stress, parent feeding practices, and child eating behaviors within the context of food insecurity, 2020, Preventive Medicine Reports
  • A Bidirectional Analysis of Feeding Practices and Eating Behaviors in Parent/Child Dyads from Low-Income and Minority Households, 2020, The Journal of Pediatrics

Other notable related publications in their research network include:

  • The Family Health Scale: Reliability and Validity of a Short- and Long-Form, 2020, Frontiers in Public Health
  • Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stress, mood, and substance use among young adults in the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul area: Findings from project EAT, 2021, Social Science & Medicine
  • Barriers to Accessing Healthy Food and Food Assistance During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Racial Justice Uprisings: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Emerging Adults' Experiences, 2021, Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Best Publications

  • Family Weight Talk and Dieting: How Much Do They Matter for Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating Behaviors in Adolescent Girls?

    Dianne Neumark-Sztainer;Katherine W. Bauer;Sarah Friend;Peter J. Hannan

  • Parenting Style as a Predictor of Adolescent Weight and Weight-Related Behaviors

    Jerica M Berge;Melanie Wall;Katie Loth;Dianne R Neumark-Sztainer

  • Parental employment and work-family stress: Associations with family food environments

    Katherine W. Bauer;Mary O. Hearst;Kamisha Escoto;Jerica M Berge

  • Family Functioning: Associations With Weight Status, Eating Behaviors, and Physical Activity in Adolescents

    Jerica M. Berge;Melanie Wall;Nicole Larson;Katie A. Loth

  • A review of familial correlates of child and adolescent obesity: What has the 21st Century taught us so far?

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  • Parent conversations about healthful eating and weight associations with adolescent disordered eating behaviors

    Jerica M Berge;Richard F Maclehose;Katie Loth;Marla E Eisenberg

  • The protective role of family meals for youth obesity: 10-year longitudinal associations

    Jerica M Berge;Melanie Wall;Tsun Fang Hsueh;Jayne Fulkerson

  • Parenting Characteristics in the Home Environment and Adolescent Overweight: A Latent Class Analysis

    Jerica M Berge;Melanie Wall;Katherine W. Bauer;Dianne R Neumark-Sztainer

  • Eating breakfast and dinner together as a family: associations with sociodemographic characteristics and implications for diet quality and weight status.

    Nicole Larson;Rich MacLehose;Jayne A. Fulkerson;Jerica M. Berge

  • Family-Based Interventions Targeting Childhood Obesity: A Meta-Analysis.

    Jerica M. Berge;Jessie C. Everts

  • Are parents of young children practicing healthy nutrition and physical activity behaviors

    Jerica M Berge;Nicole I Larson;Katherine W. Bauer;Dianne R Neumark-Sztainer

  • Childhood Obesity and Interpersonal Dynamics During Family Meals

    Jerica M Berge;Seth Rowley;Amanda Trofholz;Carrie Hanson

  • Food availability, modeling and restriction: How are these different aspects of the family eating environment related to adolescent dietary intake?

    Katie Loth;Richard F Maclehose;Nicole I Larson;Jerica M Berge

  • Associations between hurtful weight-related comments by family and significant other and the development of disordered eating behaviors in young adults.

    Marla E. Eisenberg;Jerica M. Berge;Jayne A. Fulkerson;Dianne Neumark-Sztainer

  • Family meals. Associations with weight and eating behaviors among mothers and fathers.

    Jerica M. Berge;Richard F. MacLehose;Katie A. Loth;Marla E. Eisenberg

  • What's for dinner? Types of food served at family dinner differ across parent and family characteristics

    Dianne R Neumark-Sztainer;Richard F Maclehose;Katie Loth;Jayne Fulkerson

  • Body satisfaction during pregnancy.

    Katie Loth;Katherine W. Bauer;Melanie Wall;Jerica M Berge

  • The unique and additive associations of family functioning and parenting practices with disordered eating behaviors in diverse adolescents

    Jerica M. Berge;Melanie Wall;Nicole Larson;Marla E. Eisenberg

  • Momentary Parental Stress and Food-Related Parenting Practices

    Jerica M. Berge;Allan D. Tate;Amanda Trofholz;Angela R. Fertig

  • Using Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) To Target Health Disparities in Families

    Jerica M. Berge;Tai J. Mendenhall;William J. Doherty

  • Parenting Style and Family Meals: Cross-Sectional and 5-Year Longitudinal Associations

    Jerica M Berge;Melanie Wall;Dianne R Neumark-Sztainer;Nicole I Larson

  • Marital satisfaction and mental health of couples with children with chronic health conditions.

    Jerica M Berge;Joän M. Patterson;Martha A Rueter

Frequent Co-Authors

Dianne Neumark-Sztainer
Dianne Neumark-Sztainer University of Minnesota
Katie A. Loth
Katie A. Loth University of Minnesota
Marla E. Eisenberg
Marla E. Eisenberg University of Minnesota
Melanie M. Wall
Melanie M. Wall Columbia University
William J. Doherty
William J. Doherty University of Minnesota
Michael H. Miner
Michael H. Miner University of Minnesota
Harold D. Grotevant
Harold D. Grotevant University of Massachusetts Amherst
Joan M. Patterson
Joan M. Patterson University of Minnesota
Mary Story
Mary Story Duke University
Katherine J. Conger
Katherine J. Conger University of California, Davis

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