A Virtual Cardiometabolic Health Program for African Immigrants: The Afro-DPP Program

Summary

A pilot study titled "A Virtual Cardiometabolic Health Program for African Immigrants (The Afro-DPP Program) will be conducted to address the cardiometabolic of community-dwelling African immigrants who have multiple cardiometabolic risk factors including hypertension, Type 2 Diabetes, high cholesterol, and overweight/obesity. The proposed study will recruit a total of 60 participants and will use a non-equivalent control group design to test the effectiveness of the intervention at two African churches in the Baltimore, Washington, D.C. area. The two churches will be randomly assigned to the intervention or delayed intervention group. At the end of a 6-month follow-up period, the control church will receive the intervention (delayed control group). All participants will receive a Bluetooth-enabled digital scale (Omron Model: BCM-500) that measures body composition including Body Weight, Body Fat percentage, Visceral Fat, Skeletal Muscle percentage, Resting Metabolism and Body Mass Index. A Bluetooth-enabled blood pressure monitor (Omron Model: BP7250) will also be distributed to all participants. All participants will download the Omron Connect app which will allow the participants to sync participants' blood pressure readings and body composition readings into the app. The research team will access these readings to monitor study outcomes and participants progress during the follow-up period.

Conditions

• Diabetes Mellitus
• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
• PreDiabetes
• Hypertension
• High Blood Pressure
• High Blood Sugar
• Obesity
• Overweight
• Overweight and Obesity
• Overweight or Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

The Diabetes Prevention Program

The multicomponent intervention will focus on intensive lifestyle modification delivered by the Lifestyle Coach. The Lifestyle Coach of African origin will be responsible for delivering the intensive lifestyle intervention and implementing the adapted diabetes prevention program (DPP) curriculum.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

  collaborator NIH

• Johns Hopkins University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Yvonne Commodore-Mensah, PhD, MSH, RN · JHU School Of Nursing

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age

25 Years

Max Age

75 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2021-11-21

Primary Completion

2024-08-16

Completion

2024-08-16

Countries

• United States

Study Locations