TY - JOUR
T1 - Diabetes Prevention for Latino Youth
T2 - Unraveling the Intervention “Black Box”
AU - Shaibi, Gabriel
AU - Konopken, Yolanda P.
AU - Nagle-Williams, Allison
AU - McClain, Darya D.
AU - Castro, Felipe
AU - Keller, Colleen S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, 2015 Society for Public Health Education.
PY - 2015/11/1
Y1 - 2015/11/1
N2 - The translation of research findings into sustainable health promotion and disease prevention programs in community settings remains a challenge. This report describes the process of substantiating a community-developed diabetes prevention program for Latino youth through research. Included are design considerations, measurement strategies, and the context through which the project is culturally grounded for relevance and fit within a local community. The process included (1) refining the program to include salient, stakeholder-identified behavioral components; (2) refining the collaborative effort to embrace the capacity for facilitating relevant behavior change on targeted health-related outcomes to enhance intervention effectiveness; and (3) including the accurate assessment of intervention efficacy via precise assessment of diabetes-related health outcomes. We explain the process of collaborating with community partners to enhance the cultural relevance and sustainability of intervention effects on both individuals and communities. We discuss the rationale for empirical support for academic–community collaborations that function in both a “top-down” and a “bottom-up” manner to advance the science and practice of sustainable and efficacious community health promotion.
AB - The translation of research findings into sustainable health promotion and disease prevention programs in community settings remains a challenge. This report describes the process of substantiating a community-developed diabetes prevention program for Latino youth through research. Included are design considerations, measurement strategies, and the context through which the project is culturally grounded for relevance and fit within a local community. The process included (1) refining the program to include salient, stakeholder-identified behavioral components; (2) refining the collaborative effort to embrace the capacity for facilitating relevant behavior change on targeted health-related outcomes to enhance intervention effectiveness; and (3) including the accurate assessment of intervention efficacy via precise assessment of diabetes-related health outcomes. We explain the process of collaborating with community partners to enhance the cultural relevance and sustainability of intervention effects on both individuals and communities. We discuss the rationale for empirical support for academic–community collaborations that function in both a “top-down” and a “bottom-up” manner to advance the science and practice of sustainable and efficacious community health promotion.
KW - obesity
KW - theory-based intervention
KW - type 2 diabetes prevention
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U2 - 10.1177/1524839915603363
DO - 10.1177/1524839915603363
M3 - Article
C2 - 26324123
AN - SCOPUS:84945206999
SN - 1524-8399
VL - 16
SP - 916
EP - 924
JO - Health promotion practice
JF - Health promotion practice
IS - 6
ER -