TY - JOUR
T1 - A Systematic Community-Based Participatory Approach to Refining an Evidence-Based Community-Level Intervention
T2 - The HOLA Intervention for Latino Men Who Have Sex With Men
AU - Rhodes, Scott D.
AU - Daniel, Jason
AU - Alonzo, Jorge
AU - Duck, Stacy
AU - García, Manuel
AU - Downs, Mario
AU - Hergenrather, Kenneth C.
AU - Alegría-Ortega, José
AU - Miller, Cindy
AU - Boeving Allen, Alex
AU - Gilbert, Paul A.
AU - Marsiglia, Flavio
PY - 2013/7
Y1 - 2013/7
N2 - Our community-based participatory research partnership engaged in a multistep process to refine a culturally congruent intervention that builds on existing community strengths to promote sexual health among immigrant Latino men who have sex with men (MSM). The steps were the following: (1) increase Latino MSM participation in the existing partnership, (2) establish an Intervention Team, (3) review the existing sexual health literature, (4) explore needs and priorities of Latino MSM, (5) narrow priorities based on what is important and changeable, (6) blend health behavior theory with Latino MSM's lived experiences, (7) design an intervention conceptual model, (8) develop training modules and (9) resource materials, and (10) pretest and (11) revise the intervention. The developed intervention contains four modules to train Latino MSM to serve as lay health advisors known as Navegantes. These modules synthesize locally collected data with other local and national data; blend health behavior theory, the lived experiences, and cultural values of immigrant Latino MSM; and harness the informal social support Latino MSM provide one another. This community-level intervention is designed to meet the expressed sexual health priorities of Latino MSM. It frames disease prevention within sexual health promotion.
AB - Our community-based participatory research partnership engaged in a multistep process to refine a culturally congruent intervention that builds on existing community strengths to promote sexual health among immigrant Latino men who have sex with men (MSM). The steps were the following: (1) increase Latino MSM participation in the existing partnership, (2) establish an Intervention Team, (3) review the existing sexual health literature, (4) explore needs and priorities of Latino MSM, (5) narrow priorities based on what is important and changeable, (6) blend health behavior theory with Latino MSM's lived experiences, (7) design an intervention conceptual model, (8) develop training modules and (9) resource materials, and (10) pretest and (11) revise the intervention. The developed intervention contains four modules to train Latino MSM to serve as lay health advisors known as Navegantes. These modules synthesize locally collected data with other local and national data; blend health behavior theory, the lived experiences, and cultural values of immigrant Latino MSM; and harness the informal social support Latino MSM provide one another. This community-level intervention is designed to meet the expressed sexual health priorities of Latino MSM. It frames disease prevention within sexual health promotion.
KW - HIV/AIDS
KW - LGBT
KW - Latino
KW - behavior change
KW - community intervention
KW - community-based participatory research
KW - health disparities
KW - health promotion
KW - health research
KW - lay health advisors/community health workers
KW - minority health
KW - sexual health
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U2 - 10.1177/1524839912462391
DO - 10.1177/1524839912462391
M3 - Review article
C2 - 23075504
AN - SCOPUS:84878781476
SN - 1524-8399
VL - 14
SP - 607
EP - 616
JO - Health promotion practice
JF - Health promotion practice
IS - 4
ER -