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What is ProKEDS?
ProKEDS
ProKEDS is collaborative study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University funded by the Interdisciplinary Obesity Research Center. This study hopes to lay the groundwork for prevention efforts by studying children whose parents have had anorexia nervosa. The goal of the UNC-Duke study is to begin to paint a complete picture of children of women who have histories of anorexia nervosa by understanding the thinking, eating, and physical activity patterns of their female children who are between the ages of 8-12. The study will bring moms and their girls into our special lab to participate in several activities including computer games, interviews, exercise monitoring, and meals. Researchers are sensitive to the attention span of the children and also to the sensitivities around disclosing a history of an eating disorder to your child. Participation in this study will in no way reveal a parent’s history of an eating disorder. We will study mother-daughter teams of both moms who have had anorexia nervosa and moms with no history of an eating disorder.