TY - JOUR
T1 - A Home-Visiting Diabetes Prevention and Management Program for American Indian Youth
T2 - The Together on Diabetes Trial
AU - Chambers, Rachel A.
AU - Rosenstock, Summer
AU - Neault, Nicole
AU - Kenney, Anne
AU - Richards, Jennifer
AU - Begay, Kendrea
AU - Blackwater, Thomasina
AU - Laluk, Owen
AU - Duggan, Christopher
AU - Reid, Raymond
AU - Barlow, Allison
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors disclose receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and publication of this article: funding was received from the Bristol Meyers Squibb Foundation as a part of their Together on Diabetes program. Dr Duggan acknowledges research support from the National Institutes of Health (Grant K24HD058795).
PY - 2015/12
Y1 - 2015/12
N2 - Purpose The purpose of this study was to test the feasibility of a family-based, home-visiting diabetes prevention/management intervention for American Indian (AI) youth with or at risk for type 2 diabetes. The Together on Diabetes program, developed through community-based participatory research, enrolled 255 AI youth (aged 10-19 years) with or at risk for type 2 diabetes and 223 support persons. Delivered by local AI paraprofessionals in 4 rural AI communities, the program included home-based lifestyle education and psychosocial support, facilitated referrals, and community-based healthy living activities. Changes in AI youth participants’ knowledge, behavior, psychosocial status, and physiological measurements were assessed over 12 months. Over one-half (56.1%) of youth were boys. The median age was 13.2 years. At baseline, 68.0% of youth reported no physical activity in the past 3 days; median percentages of kilocalories from fat (36.18%) and sweets (13.67%) were higher than US Department of Agriculture recommendations. Nearly 40% of participants reported food insecurity in the past month; 17.1% screened positive for depression. Support persons were predominantly family members, few reported having home Internet access (38.6%), and the majority reported being long distances (>30 minutes) from food stores. Whereas support persons were primarily responsible (≥69%) for obtaining medical care for the youth, the youth had a greater role in behavioral outcomes, indicating joint diabetes prevention/management responsibility. Baseline results confirmed the need for family-based youth diabetes prevention interventions in rural AI communities and indicated that enrolling at-risk youth and family members is feasible and acceptable.
AB - Purpose The purpose of this study was to test the feasibility of a family-based, home-visiting diabetes prevention/management intervention for American Indian (AI) youth with or at risk for type 2 diabetes. The Together on Diabetes program, developed through community-based participatory research, enrolled 255 AI youth (aged 10-19 years) with or at risk for type 2 diabetes and 223 support persons. Delivered by local AI paraprofessionals in 4 rural AI communities, the program included home-based lifestyle education and psychosocial support, facilitated referrals, and community-based healthy living activities. Changes in AI youth participants’ knowledge, behavior, psychosocial status, and physiological measurements were assessed over 12 months. Over one-half (56.1%) of youth were boys. The median age was 13.2 years. At baseline, 68.0% of youth reported no physical activity in the past 3 days; median percentages of kilocalories from fat (36.18%) and sweets (13.67%) were higher than US Department of Agriculture recommendations. Nearly 40% of participants reported food insecurity in the past month; 17.1% screened positive for depression. Support persons were predominantly family members, few reported having home Internet access (38.6%), and the majority reported being long distances (>30 minutes) from food stores. Whereas support persons were primarily responsible (≥69%) for obtaining medical care for the youth, the youth had a greater role in behavioral outcomes, indicating joint diabetes prevention/management responsibility. Baseline results confirmed the need for family-based youth diabetes prevention interventions in rural AI communities and indicated that enrolling at-risk youth and family members is feasible and acceptable.
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U2 - 10.1177/0145721715608953
DO - 10.1177/0145721715608953
M3 - Article
C2 - 26450222
AN - SCOPUS:84947424878
SN - 0145-7217
VL - 41
SP - 729
EP - 747
JO - The Diabetes Educator
JF - The Diabetes Educator
IS - 6
ER -