Unidas Por la Vida: A Healthy Lifestyle Intervention for High-risk Latina Dyads

Summary

Mexican American women have significantly elevated rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes. The proposed study tests a novel intervention that capitalizes on an existing important family dyad (mothers and their adult daughters) to foster clinically significant and long-lasting health behavior change. If found to effective, this intervention strategy has great potential to address health disparities in this, and other, at-risk populations.

Conditions

• Diabetes
• Obesity
• Overweight

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Dyadic lifestyle intervention

Dyadic lifestyle intervention: The dyadic behavioral lifestyle intervention was modeled after the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), and was adapted to make it more easily accessible to low-income Latinas. In addition, this intervention arm has a dyadic component to examine the effectiveness of mothers and daughters engaging in the lifestyle intervention together as partners. Participants also will receive usual care.

BEHAVIORAL

Individual lifestyle intervention

Individual lifestyle intervention: The individual behavioral lifestyle intervention was modeled after the Diabetes Prevention Program, and was adapted to make it more easily accessible to low-income Latinas. Mothers participate in the Unidas intervention alone, without their related daughters. Unrelated daughters participate in the Unidas intervention alone without their related mothers. Participants also will receive usual care.

OTHER

Usual Care

Usual Care: Mother and daughter participants will receive Usual Care.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• AltaMed Health Services Corporation

  collaborator OTHER

• University of California, San Diego

  collaborator OTHER

• University of California, Irvine

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Dara H Sorkin, Ph.D. · University of California, Irvine

• Karen S Rook, Ph.D. · University of California, Irvine

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2016-01-31

Primary Completion

2021-07-31

Completion

2021-07-31