Your Health Matters! (Tu Salud ¡Si Cuenta!): Promoting Healthy Lifestyles in Latino Families

N/AActive Not RecruitingNCT03199209

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center600 enrolled

Overview

This trial studies how well a theoretically-based motivational behavior change program called Tu Salud Si Cuenta! works in promoting healthy lifestyles in Latino families. Tu Salud Si Cuenta! will deliver programs on healthy lifestyles and healthy homes to Hispanic/Latino families and may help to improve their health.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To evaluate the efficacy of the Tu Salud, Si Cuenta! Familiar (TSSC-Family) intervention in facilitating positive changes in physical activity and nutrition among Latino adults not meeting physical activity or nutrition recommendations. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To test the effects of TSSC-Family on hypothesized intervention mechanisms (e.g., self-efficacy, stage of change, social support, social control), and the role of those mechanisms in mediating TSSC-Family effects of physical activity and nutrition outcomes. OUTLINE: Participants are randomized to 1 of 2 groups. GROUP I: Participants and their family member meet with a community health worker in their home over 90 minutes to learn about physical activity, healthy eating, and to set goals, once a month for 6 months. Participants also receive 2-5 text messages per week that contain health tips related to healthy lifestyles and information about local resources. Participants also attend a study visit with a research staff over 90-120 minutes at a community center, MD Anderson, or at home at baseline, 6 months, and 12 months. GROUP II: Participants and their family member meet with a community health worker in their home over 90 minutes to receive information on how to be safe and healthy at home and information about indoor air quality, home safety, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)/first aid, how to prepare for emergencies, and keeping pests away, once a month for 6 months. Participants also receive 2-5 text messages per week that contain information about healthy homes and local resources. Participants also attend a study visit with a research staff over 90-120 minutes at a community center, MD Anderson, or at home at baseline, 6 months, and 12 months.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

600

Conditions

Family Member Health Status Unknown

Interventions

Behavioral, Psychological or Informational InterventionOTHER

Receive information about healthy lifestyles

Behavioral, Psychological or Informational InterventionOTHER

Receive information about healthy homes

Patient VisitBEHAVIORAL

Attend study visit with research staff

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 70 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Self-reported Hispanic/Latino ethnicity. * Speak English or Spanish. * Physically able to engage in low-to-moderate physical activity (PA) as assessed by the PA Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q), or with medical clearance. * Insufficient self-reported moderate-to-vigorous PA (\< 150 minutes/week) or limited fruits and vegetable (FV) intake (defined as less than or equal to 4 cups of FV combined or \< 1 cup of vegetables per day). * Able to enroll with one eligible adult family member. * Valid home address in the Houston neighborhoods of Gulfton, the East End/Magnolia, Northside, Pasadena or adjacent neighborhoods. * Have a functioning cellular telephone and able and willing to send and receive text messages. * Blood pressure reading less than 160/100 mmHg, or with medical clearance. Exclusion Criteria: * Pregnancy or considering pregnancy during the study period, self-reported. * Currently participating in a program or research study to promote physical activity, healthy eating, or weight loss. * Plans to move outside the greater Houston area during the study period. * Past weight loss surgery.

Locations (1)

M D Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, Texas, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Changes in Physical Activity

Changes in physical activity determined by using univariable and multivariable mixed effect models.

Time frame: 12 months

Increase in Fruit and Vegetable (F/V) Consumption

Assuming 1.6 portions of F/V consumed per day in the control group, power calculations show that Poisson regression model with a 0.05 two-sided significance level has 80% power to detect a 22% or greater increase (rate ratio (RR) =1.22) in portions of F/V consumption for intervention group if we have total 522 participants (261 dyads) with Intra-cluster correlation coefficient (ICC) of 0.08.

Time frame: 12 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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