Tailoring a Lifestyle Intervention to Address Obesity Disparities Among Men

Summary

If the investigators are to adequately address the health needs of African American and Latino men, both culture and gender must be considered when developing and implementing strategies to encourage weight loss and increase their healthy eating and physical activity.The aim of this project is to develop and test gendered, culturally and contextually relevant messages that will be used in a future, web- based tailored intervention to encourage healthy eating and physical activity in African American and Latino men. This study is part of a larger research agenda that for a decade has focused on understanding and reducing chronic disease risk among African American and Latino men. Because men are more likely than women to engage in over 30 behaviors known to increase their risk of injury, morbidity, and mortality, improving men's health requires understanding the social and cultural factors that help explain sex differences in health. Operationalizing gender in individually-tailored health communications has great potential to unlock the potential of health communications and interventions to engage and improve the health of men and particularly African American and Latino men. To date, no community-based intervention has produced clinically significant improvements in weight loss, healthy eating or physical activity in Latino and African American men. It also is unclear how technology can be used to promote these behaviors in this population. Thus, there is a need to develop healthy eating, physical activity and weight loss interventions specifically targeted and tailored to African American and Latino men that explores the utility of technology. This intervention content and focus represents a novel strategy to promote health equity by using technology-based health care innovations to improve healthy eating and active living by addressing a root cause of unhealthy behavior in men: notions of manhood. The investigators focus on gender and manhood because they are under-explored factors that shape men's health behaviors.

Conditions

• Weight Loss
• Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Tailor Made: Solutions for your health (A su Medida: Soluciones para su salud)

Assess the effectiveness of a person-specific, randomized controlled pilot weight loss study of 80 African American and 40 Latino men; to compare changes in chronic disease risk behaviors (e.g., diet and physical activity), adiposity measures (e.g., body fat), and psychosocial mediators (e.g., social support, autonomous motivation) between data collected at baseline and at 3-months.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Miami

  collaborator OTHER

• Vanderbilt University Medical Center

  collaborator OTHER

• Meharry Medical College

  collaborator OTHER

• National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

  collaborator NIH

• Vanderbilt University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Emily C Jaeger, MPH · Vanderbilt University

• Derek M Griffith, PhD · Vanderbilt University

• Natasha Solle, PhD · University of Miami

• Neysari Arana, MPH · University of Miami

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

35 Years

Max Age

64 Years

Sex

MALE

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2019-06-12

Primary Completion

2021-03-31

Completion

2021-03-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations