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Dr. Tugault-Lafleur's research program emphasizes healthy eating in children and youth and is shaped by her background as a registered dietitian, fusing methods and theory from nutrition education, public health, behavioural and implementation sciences. Her doctoral research focused on characterizing the dietary quality of Canadian children on school days and identifying factors associated with nutritional outcomes among children and youth using nationally representative dietary survey data. After her doctoral degree, professor Tugault-Lafleur completed a CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship at the BC Children's Hospital Research Institute from 2019-2020.
Dr. Tugault-Lafleur's current research seeks to better understand children's nutrition and physical activity environments, and how they are linked with eating and physical activity behaviours. She also has a strong interest in better designing and evaluating interventions at various levels (the family, community, and policy-level) to promote optimal health outcomes for the Canadian population.
She is a Registered Dietitian (R.D.) with the College of Dietitians of Ontario, and a member of the Canadian Nutrition Society, Dietitians of Canada, and the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity.
- Publications
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Temporal snacking patterns among Canadian children and adolescents
Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism
Claire N. Tugault-Lafleur and Jane Y. Polsky
DOI: 10.1139/apnm-2024-0059
10/2024Patterns of Physical Activity Parenting Practices and Their Association With Children's Physical Activity Behaviors
Childhood Obesity
Olivia De-Jongh González and Sarah M. Hutchison and Claire N. Tugault-Lafleur and Teresia M. O'Connor and Sheryl O. Hughes and Louise C. Mâsse
DOI: 10.1089/chi.2022.0226
05/2024Obesity-related parenting practices, styles, and family functioning: A natural experiment comparing pandemic and nonpandemic data.
Journal of Family Psychology
Olivia De-Jongh González and Claire N. Tugault-Lafleur and Louise C. Mâsse
DOI: 10.1037/fam0001196
02/2024Efficacy of the Aim2Be Intervention in Changing Lifestyle Behaviors among Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity: Randomized Controlled Trial
Journal of Medical Internet Research
DOI: 10.2196/38545
2023Factors associated with physical activity policy and practice implementation in British Columbia’s childcare settings: a longitudinal study
BMC Public Health
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-16502-0
2023Who Misses Lunch on School Days in Canada?
Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition
Claire N Tugault-Lafleur and Jennifer L Black
DOI: 10.1080/19320248.2021.1984359
11/2022The Aim2Be mHealth Intervention for Children With Overweight or Obesity and Their Parents: Person-Centered Analyses to Uncover Digital Phenotypes
Journal of Medical Internet Research
Olivia De-Jongh González and Claire N Tugault-Lafleur and E Jean Buckler and Jill Hamilton and Josephine Ho and Annick Buchholz and Katherine M Morrison and Geoff DC Ball and Louise C Mâsse
DOI: 10.2196/35285
06/2022Efficacy of the Aim2Be Intervention in Changing Lifestyle Behaviors Among Adolescents With Overweight and Obesity: Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint)
Claire N Tugault-Lafleur and Olivia De-Jongh González and Janice Macdonald and Jennifer Bradbury and Tom Warshawski and Geoff D C Ball and Katherine Morrison and Josephine Ho and Jill Hamilton and Annick Buchholz and Louise Mâsse
DOI: 10.2196/preprints.38545
04/2022Does an active play standard change childcare physical activity and healthy eating policies? A natural policy experiment
BMC Public Health
Tugault-Lafleur, C.N. and Naylor, P.-J. and Carson, V. and Faulkner, G. and Lau, E.Y. and Wolfenden, L. and M{\^a}sse, L.C.
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-13079-y
2022Gender plays a role in adolescents’ dietary behaviors as they transition to secondary school
Appetite
Alysha L. Deslippe and Claire N. Tugault-Lafleur and Tomoko McGaughey and Patti-Jean (P.J.) Naylor and Lucy Le Mare and Louise C. Mâsse
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105642
12/2021The Aim2Be mHealth Intervention for Children With Overweight or Obesity and Their Parents: Person-Centered Analyses to Uncover Digital Phenotypes (Preprint)
Olivia De-Jongh González and Claire N Tugault-Lafleur and E Jean Buckler and Jill Hamilton and Josephine Ho and Annick Buchholz and Katherine M Morrison and Geoff DC Ball and Louise C Mâsse
DOI: 10.2196/preprints.35285
11/2021Identifying and predicting food parenting practice profiles among Canadian parents
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Tugault-Lafleur, C.N. and González, O.D.-J. and O?Connor, T.M. and Hughes, S.O. and Mâsse, L.C.
DOI: 10.1186/s12966-021-01119-6
2021Are fathers’ and mothers’ food parenting practices differentially associated with children's eating behaviors?
Appetite
De-Jongh González, O. and Tugault-Lafleur, C.N. and O'Connor, T.M. and Hughes, S.O. and Mâsse, L.C.
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105434
2021Calibration of the food parenting practice (FPP) item bank: tools for improving the measurement of food parenting practices of parents of 5–12-year-old children
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Mâsse, L.C. and O?Connor, T.M. and Lin, Y. and Hughes, S.O. and Tugault-Lafleur, C.N. and Baranowski, T. and Beauchamp, M.R.
DOI: 10.1186/s12966-020-01049-9
2020Calibration of the Food Parenting Practice Item Bank: Tools for improving the measurement of food parenting practices of 5-12 year old children
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Masse, LC and O'Connor, TM and Lin, Y and Hughes, SO and Tugault-Lafleur, CN and Baranowski, T and Beauchamp, MR
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-020-01049-9
2020Lunch on school days in Canada: Examining contributions to nutrient and food group intake and differences across eating locations
Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Tugault-Lafleur, Claire N. and Black, Jennifer L.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jand.2020.01.011
2020Examining differences in school hour and school day dietary quality among Canadian children between 2004 and 2015
Public Health Nutrition
Tugault-Lafleur, Claire N. and Barr, Susan I. and Black, Jennifer L.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980019000788
2019Differences in the quantity and types of foods and beverages consumed by Canadians between 2004 and 2015
Nutrients
Tugault-Lafleur, Claire N. and Black, Jennifer L. and Tugault-Lafleur, Claire N. and Black, Jennifer L.
DOI: 10.3390/NU11030526
2019Correction: Tugault-Lafleur C.N. and Black J.L. “Differences in the Quantity and Types of Foods and Beverages Consumed by Canadians between 2004 and 2015” Nutrients 2019, 11, 526
Nutrients
Tugault-Lafleur, Claire N. and Black, Jennifer L.
DOI: 10.3390/NU11092160
2019Lunch-time food source is associated with school hour and school day dietary quality
Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics
Tugault-Lafleur, Claire N and Black, Jennifer L and Barr, Susan I
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jhn.12500
2018Reply to MM Graziose
Advances in nutrition
Tugault-Lafleur, Claire N and Black, Jennifer L and Barr, Susan I
DOI: 10.3945/an.117.015685
PubMed: 28710150
07/2017Examining school day dietary intake among Canadian children
Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism
Tugault-Lafleur, Claire N and Black, Jennifer L. and Barr, Susan I.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1139/apnm-2017-0125
2017A systematic review of methods to assess children's diets in the school context
Advances in Nutrition
Tugault-Lafleur, Claire N and Black, Jennifer L and Barr, Susan I
DOI: 10.3945/an.116.013144
2017Lunch-time food source is associated with dietary intakes and diet quality among Canadian children
Applied Physiology Nutrition Metabolism
Tugault-Lafleur, C.N. and Black, J. and Barr, S.
DOI: 10.1111/jhn.12500
2017Examining school-day dietary intakes among Canadian children
Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism
Tugault-Lafleur, C.N. and Black, J.L. and Barr, S.I.
DOI: 10.1139/apnm-2017-0125
2017Examining temporal differences in school day dietary intakes and factors associated with school-hour dietary intakes in Canada
Applied Physiology Nutrition Metabolism
Tugault-Lafleur, C.N. and Black, J. and Barr, S.
2016Evaluation of Methods to Assess Children's Diets in the School Context: A Systematic Review
The FASEB Journal
Tugault-Lafleur, C.N. and Black, J. and Barr, S.I.
2016Of rice and spice: Hmong livelihoods and diversification in the Northern Vietnam uplands
Moving Mountains: Ethnicity and Livelihoods in Highland China, Vietnam, and Laos
Tugault-Lafleur, C. and Turner, S.
2011The price of spice: Ethnic minority livelihoods and cardamom commodity chains in upland northern Vietnam
Singapore J Trop Geography
Tugault-Lafleur, C. and Turner, S.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9493.2009.00376.x
2009 - Research
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Diet quality of Canadian children
Drawing on nation-wide dietary data from the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) as well as data from Canadian Family Studies (the Guelph Family Health Study), I am leading several analyses exploring factors associated with dietary quality among Canadian children. This work lays the foundation to inform future interventions aimed at ameliorating the dietary quality of Canadian children.A Good Start Matters - Creating environments that support physical activity in childcare setting
In recent years, the BC Government has acknowledged the negative influence that physical inactivity and obesity have on the health of children and youth in Canada. We are interested in exploring the impact that the implementation of the Active Play Standards and the use of the intervention materials have on the environment, polices, and practices in childcare settings, as well as on the health behaviours in children.The Sino-Canadian Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (SCHeLTI)
This is a multicentre, cluster-randomised, parallel-group, superiority trial of a multifaceted community-family-mother-child intervention to prevent childhood overweight and obesity.GrantsExamining school day dietary practices: An analysis of national dietary data from the 2004 and 2015 Canadian Community Health Surveys. (2017-2018). Jennifer L. Black (Principal applicant), Claire Tugault-Lafleur (Co-Applicant), Susan I. Barr. (Collaborator). Canadian Institutes of Health Research, $100,000
Honours & AwardsCIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (2019). $150,000 salary award over 3 years and $1,500 per year in research funds
UBC Faculty of Land and Food System Doctoral Award (2017), $3,000
Danone Institute of Canada Communication Award (2016), $2,000
Research Roundup: April 2022
This month’s Research Roundup covers the impact of mandatory Active Play Standards on childcare centres’ policies and practices in British Columbia, a positive and supportive way to increase health behaviours and maintain bone health in children, and how changing terminology can help support kids with neurodisability.
