Effectively translating diabetes prevention: a successful model in a historically underserved community

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• Alternative Title:
  Transl Behav Med
• Personal Author:
  Horowitz, Carol R ; Eckhardt, Sarah ; Talavera, Sandra ; Goytia, Crispin ; Lorig, Kate
• Description:
  Lifestyle interventions can prevent diabetes through weight loss, but they are rarely translated for use in underserved communities. The aim of this study was to describe how a community-academic partnership formed and developed a program to address local health disparities by developing a low-cost, culturally and economically appropriate, peer-led community-based diabetes prevention program. Using a participatory approach, the partnership chose to focus on diabetes prevention, and co-developed all intervention, recruitment, research, and evaluation strategies. The partnership's philosophy to maintain high clinical and scientific standards paired with their ability to represent and engage the community facilitated the development of a randomized controlled trial that achieved statistically significant and sustained weight loss, and the recruitment of a largely Spanish-speaking, low income, uninsured population. The success of this intervention lies in the partnership's commitment to the community, co-ownership of research, and a careful balance between academic rigor and community engagement and relevance.
• Keywords:
  Community-based Participatory Research Diabetes Prevention East Harlem Lifestyle Modification Underserved Communities Weight Loss
• Source:
  Transl Behav Med. 1(3):443-452
• Pubmed ID:
  22189897
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC3242468
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R24 MD001691/MD/NIMHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R24 MD001691-07/MD/NIMHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U58 DP001010/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 RR029887/RR/NCRR NIH HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  1
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:55a8d02887f42f3024f3218d115f80c7b7b479ee843c871dcf3c03d02c89fd9a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/41846/cdc_41846_DS1.pdf
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