Evidence-based programs to prevent diabetes among high-risk individuals are less effective among those who also have mental health needs. This study involves developing and pilot testing the first adaptation of the landmark Diabetes Prevention Program lifestyle intervention to simultaneously treat prediabetes and elevated mental health symptoms. This project has large potential to impact public health, given that more than half of the U.S. adult population has either of these conditions, and is at risk for developing comorbid diabetes and mental illness.
The overall goal of this study is to develop an effective and potentially scalable intervention to prevent diabetes in people with elevated mental health symptoms (EMS) and prediabetes. This study focuses on Latinos, a demographic group at particularly high risk for these related conditions. Experience from the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), and related translational studies, suggests that the evidence-based DPP lifestyle intervention is less effective among depressed individuals. The proposed Promotora Intervention for Metabolic and Mental Health (PRIME2) will be the first adaptation of the DPP lifestyle intervention to simultaneously address mental health and prediabetes in a program delivered by promotoras, or community health workers.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
53
Behavioral life-style program with cognitive-behavioral content lead by a team of trained community health workers (called promotoras) with the following principal goals - encouraging participants to lose 7% of their total weight and complete 150 minutes of moderate physical activity per week.
Participants in this arm will be given educational materials in spanish discussing mental health and diabetes prevention.
Northwestern Univeristy
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Body Weight
Weight change from baseline.
Time frame: 3 months
Perceived Stress
The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) is a 14-item tool meant to measure how different situations affect participant feelings and perceived stress. Individual scores on the PSS range from 0 to 40 with higher scores indicating higher perceived stress. Each item is rated on a 5-point scale ranging from never (0) to almost always (4).The total score reported for each participant. * Scores ranging from 0-13 would be considered low stress. * Scores ranging from 14-26 would be considered moderate stress. * Scores ranging from 27-40 would be considered high perceived stress.
Time frame: 3 months
Cardiometabolic marker - A1C
Hemoglobin A1C change from baseline measured from a fingerstick capillary blood sample using a DCA 2000/Vantage portable analyzer.
Time frame: 3 months
Cardiometabolic marker - waist circumference
Waist circumference change from baseline assessed using a measuring tape around the top of the iliac crests at end-expiration.
Time frame: 3 months
Beck Depression Inventory
levated depressive symptoms were assessed using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), a depression screening instrument. The BDI score recorded at the enrollment visit will be considered the baseline BDI score. The last measured BDI score within 3 months after the baseline visit is the follow-up score used to calculate mean BDI change.
Time frame: 3 months
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