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The Science of Essential Balance

Award Number: R25GM129805
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/14/2018
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 07/31/2025

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The Science of Essential Balance - Project Summary The purpose of this SEPA project is to design and field-test The Science of Essential Balance (SEB) curriculum for high schools. Building on an established university-public school SEPA Partnership including 5 school districts in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, this project seeks to develop a 40 lesson curriculum to teach the science about energy-balanced living in Healthful Living Course of Study. The curriculum will incorporate mobile technology to deliver course assignments that lead students through the 5-E science learning cycle to engage, experiment, explain, elaborate, and evaluate data they collect from themselves about nutrients (especially calories) intake and expenditure. Learning the science about energy balance in the physically active healthful living lessons will provide opportunities for students to study the relationship between nutrition, exercise, injury prevention, and obesity prevention using scientific inquiry processes. The knowledge learned from this SEB curriculum may form a foundation for students to further study and understand preventive medicine. Efficacy of the curriculum will be determined in an Evaluation Study (Phase 1) and a Dissemination Study (Phase 2). In the Evaluation Study, 20 high schools from the established SEPA Partnership districts will be randomly assigned to either the SEB condition or a control condition in the first three project years. A quasi-experiment design will be used in the Dissemination Study to determine the sustainability and transferability of the SEB curriculum using a sample across the U.S. The curriculum efficacy evaluation will be based on evidence representing student achievement outcome, teacher assessment of the curriculum, and community satisfaction about students’ understanding demonstrated in student-led community events. A three-level Hierarchical Linear Model will be used in both studies to ensure validity, reliability, and generalizability of evidence for curriculum efficacy.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2026 ( Subtotal = -$2,357 )
2026	2022	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO	1000 SPRING GARDEN ST	GREENSBORO	NC	27412	GUILFORD	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	5	3/31/2026	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$2,357
														Subtotal = -$2,357

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2024	2022	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO	1000 SPRING GARDEN ST	GREENSBORO	NC	27412	GUILFORD	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	5	8/29/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $256,431 )
2022	2022	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO	1000 SPRING GARDEN STREET	GREENSBORO	NC	27412	GUILFORD	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	5	7/21/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$256,431
														Subtotal = $256,431

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $252,937 )
2021	2021	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO	1000 SPRING GARDEN STREET	GREENSBORO	NC	27412	GUILFORD	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	4	7/16/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$252,937
														Subtotal = $252,937

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $262,443 )
2020	2020	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO	1000 SPRING GARDEN STREET	GREENSBORO	NC	27412	GUILFORD	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	3	7/29/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$262,443
														Subtotal = $262,443

Issue Date FY: 2019 ( Subtotal = $265,392 )
2019	2019	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO	1000 SPRING GARDEN STREET	GREENSBORO	NC	27412	GUILFORD	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	2	7/23/2019	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$265,392
														Subtotal = $265,392

Issue Date FY: 2018 ( Subtotal = $208,915 )
2018	2018	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO	1000 SPRING GARDEN STREET	GREENSBORO	NC	27412	GUILFORD	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	1	9/14/2018	NEW	$208,915
														Subtotal = $208,915

Grand Total All Awards = $1,243,761

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The Science of Essential Balance

Award Number: R25GM129805

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/14/2018

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 07/31/2025

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