Tailoring a Lifestyle Intervention to Address Obesity Disparities Among Men

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Conditions studied: Weight Loss, Obesity

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03037502

Run by

Vanderbilt University

People needed

72

Starts

2019-06-12

Expected to finish

2021-03-31

Last updated by the study team

2021-04-23

Who can join

Age: 35 and older, up to 64. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age: 35-64 at enrollment
• Race/ ethnicity: African American/ Black or Latino/ Hispanic
• BMI: 27-50
• Fluent in English (Nashville and Miami) or Spanish (Miami)
• Provide informed consent
• Weight less than 400 pounds

You may not qualify if…

• Preexisting condition that prohibits at least moderate physical activity
• Serious medical condition that is likely to hinder accurate measurement of weight, for which weight loss is contraindicated or that would cause weight loss
• Prior or planned bariatric surgery
• Chronic use of medications that are likely to cause weight gain or cause weight loss
• No cell phone or land-line phone
• Participant in another obesity, eating or physical activity program or study
• Psychiatric hospitalization or in-patient substance abuse treatment in the last 12 months

Where it is running

• University of Miami — Miami, Florida, United States
• Vanderbilt University — Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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