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Stories for Change: Digital Storytelling for Diabetes Self-Management Among Somali Adults

NCT04266054 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 19

Last updated 2024-07-05

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Summary

Somali adults are more likely to have type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) and more likely to die from the disease than non-Somali whites. These disparities are mediated, in part, by less healthful levels of physical activity, dietary quality, medication adherence, and self-monitoring of blood glucose than non-Somali whites. Innovative approaches that arise from affected communities are needed to address these health disparities.

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has been successful in targeting health issues among Somali and immigrant populations; CBPR is an effective approach for addressing health behaviors in a sociocultural context. In 2004, the research team developed a CBPR partnership between immigrant communities and academic institutions called Rochester Healthy Community Partnership (RHCP)

Storytelling or narrative-based interventions are designed to incorporate culture-centric health messaging to promote behavior change among vulnerable populations. Digital storytelling interventions are narrative-based videos elicited through a CBPR approach to surface the authentic voices of individuals overcoming obstacles toward engaging in health promoting behaviors to shape positive health behaviors of viewers through influences on attitudes and beliefs.

RHCP partners from Somali communities identified T2D as a priority area for intervention, and have co-created each of the formative phases leading up to this proposal. Narrative theory and social cognitive theory formed the conceptual basis for intervention development. The study team conducted surveys and focus groups to derive the approach and personnel for building an authentic intervention that was created in a digital storytelling workshop where stories about diabetes self-management were captured, recorded, and edited to derive the final intervention products in video format. The respective digital storytelling videos will be pilot tested with 80 patients in Rochester, MN. In a mirror project for Hispanic adults, the intervention was rated as highly acceptable, culturally relevant, and perceived as efficacious for motivating behavioral change.

The overall objective of this project is therefore to assess the efficacy of a digital storytelling intervention derived through a CBPR approach on self-management of T2D among Somali adults.

Conditions

  • Type2 Diabetes

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Digital Storytelling Intervention

12-minute digital storytelling intervention in Spanish, with four individuals explaining their personal Type 2 Diabetes stories.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Jane Njeru, MB, ChB · Mayo Clinic

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-12-03
Primary Completion
2022-05-08
Completion
2024-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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