Alexandra Descarpentrie

ORCID: 0000-0002-2666-5380
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Research Areas
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Gestational Diabetes Research and Management
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Physical Activity and Health

Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
2025

University of Southern California
2025

Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
2023-2024

Sorbonne Université
2023-2024

Inserm
2021-2024

Université Paris Cité
2021-2024

Centre de Recherche Épidémiologie et Statistique
2021-2024

Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement
2021-2024

Sorbonne Paris Cité
2022-2024

Abstract Background Tracking combinations of lifestyle behaviours during childhood (“lifestyle pattern trajectories”) can identify subgroups children that might benefit from interventions aiming to improve health outcomes later in life. However, studies on the critical transition period early middle are limited. We aimed describe patterns trajectories 2 8 years age and evaluated their associations with cardiometabolic risk markers at a multi-ethnic Asian cohort. Methods Twelve related...

10.1186/s12966-024-01564-z article EN cc-by International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2024-01-26

The development of obesity in childhood is the result interplay between a complex array multi-level factors, one which dietary intake. However, intake itself impacted by many factors operating at different levels. This special issue brings together collection papers that examine various influencing children's Rather than issuing call for papers, this came organically based on regular submissions, highlighting growing body research dedicated to understanding how habits can contribute risk....

10.1111/ijpo.70004 article EN Pediatric Obesity 2025-03-06

Summary Background Energy balance‐related behaviours (EBRBs), that is, dietary intake, screen, outdoor play and sleep, tend to combine into ‘lifestyle patterns’, with potential synergistic influences on health. To date, studies addressing this theme mainly focused school children rarely accounted for a cross‐country perspective. Objectives We aimed at comparing lifestyle patterns among preschool‐aged across Europe, their associations socio‐demographic factors links body mass index (BMI)....

10.1111/ijpo.13079 article EN Pediatric Obesity 2023-10-05

Energy balance-related behaviors (EBRBs), i.e., diet, sedentary behavior, physical activity, and sleep, combine into lifestyle patterns, which we aim to identify in French preschoolers analyze their family correlates within the framework of a comprehensive socioecological model. Parental questionnaires provided information about characteristics children's EBRBs for 978 5-year-olds EDEN cohort. We used principal component analysis derive patterns from hierarchical multivariable linear...

10.3390/nu13113803 article EN Nutrients 2021-10-26

Abstract Background Integrated patterns of energy balance-related behaviours preschool children in Asia are sparse, with few comparative analyses. Purpose Using cohorts Singapore (GUSTO) and France (EDEN), we characterized lifestyle investigated their associations family-focused contextual factors. Methods Ten behavioural variables related to child’s diet, walking, outdoor play screen time were ascertained by parental questionnaires at age 5–6 years. principal component analysis,...

10.1186/s12966-022-01266-4 article EN cc-by International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2022-03-15

Children's energy balance-related behaviours (EBRB), comprising diet, screen time, physical activity, and sleep, combine into "lifestyle patterns", which may exert a synergistic effect on health. To date, studies investigating this synergy have primarily focused obesity risk, without addressing other facets of health.To examine the prospective associations preschoolers' lifestyle patterns with socio-emotional, behavioural, body mass index (BMI) outcomes at 8 years.Participants were 876...

10.1111/ppe.12926 article EN Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2022-09-22

Diet, screen time, physical activity, and sleep combine into lifestyle patterns with synergistic effects on health. This study aimed to identify in children without housing assess their associations mental health family socio-ecological factors. In the 2013 ENFAMS cross-sectional survey (children aged 6-12 experiencing homelessness, Greater Paris area, n = 235), parents reported factors, children's behaviours, (the latter was also child-reported). Nurses measured haemoglobin concentrations...

10.3390/ijerph192316276 article EN International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022-12-05

Although an early adiposity rebound (AR) is established risk factor for later obesity, little known regarding its determinants, especially modifiable ones. Using data from the French EDEN mother-child cohort (1903 children born in 2003-2006), we aimed to examine association between diet and activity-related behaviors at 2 years of age timing AR. Two-year-old (n = 1138) with parent-reported on their foods/drinks intake, TV/DVD watching time, outdoor playtime, estimated (via growth modelling)...

10.1016/j.pmedr.2021.101666 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Preventive Medicine Reports 2021-12-13

Urban environments are characterized by many factors that may influence children's energy balance-related behaviors (EBRBs), but there is limited research on the impact of prospective exposure to multiple urban in preschoolers. We evaluated associations between various exposures and EBRBs preschoolers across Europe, with considered both individually combined into lifestyle patterns. used data from 4,073 (aged 3–4 years) participating three European cohorts EU Child Cohort Network: BiB...

10.1016/j.envint.2024.108880 article EN cc-by Environment International 2024-07-14

Objective This study aimed to identify the housing and psychosocial factors associated with mental health disorders in children aged 6–12 years living sheltered homeless families Greater Paris area (France), a view guiding development of actions that could improve their health. Method The cross-sectional ENFAMS (“Enfants et familles sans logement”) was conducted between January May 2013 on random sample using face-to-face questionnaires administered by trained interviewers psychologists 17...

10.3389/frcha.2023.1136597 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2023-06-20

Literature from the general population shows a consensus about health benefits associated with breastfeeding for both mothers and children. However, studies investigating these issues in context of homelessness migration are rare. This research aimed to examine relations any duration outcomes among migrant mother-child dyads experiencing homelessness.Data were collected sheltered mainly foreign-born homelessness, their children aged 6 months 5 years, ENFAMS cross-sectional survey (n = 481,...

10.1093/eurpub/ckad096 article EN cc-by-nc European Journal of Public Health 2023-06-20
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