Tu Salud Si Cuenta: UT Community Outreach Program for Community-based Diabetes Prevention and Control.

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Diabetes, Obesity

In brief

Building from existing intervention strategies designed for the Mexican American population entitled Tu Salud Si Cuenta(TSSC) or Your Health Matters. This intervention highlights in the media successful role models who have changed their food choices and physical activity levels. In addition, the intervention designs environmental changes to help community members carry out recommended behavior change strategies. The purpose of this study is to test the efficacy of the outreach elements of the Tu Salud Si Cuenta (TSSC) media campaign, a physical activity and healthful food choice intervention among Mexican Americans in the Lower Rio Grande Valley to achieve behavioral and clinical outcomes.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01168765

Run by

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

People needed

500

Starts

2010-06-01

Expected to finish

2013-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-05-09

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 75. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Mexican American men and women aged between 18-75 years old are eligible. All participants of the Behavioral Intervention Trial will first be newly enrolled participants in the Cameron County Hispanic Cohort(CCHC). Persons involved in other intervention studies are eligible to be included in this study as well.

You may not qualify if…

• Mexican American men and women older than 75 years or younger than 18 years will be excluded. Persons not enrolled in CCHC will be excluded.

Where it is running

• University of Texas School of Public Health-Brownsville Regional Campus — Brownsville, Texas, United States

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