The Fade to Fitness Program is a targeted intervention designed to improve the holistic health and quality of life among Black men. This comprehensive initiative focuses on four key health behaviors: Physical Activity, Healthy Eating, Stress Management, and Depression Management. It is grounded in psychological and social theories like Self-Determination Theory, Motivational Interviewing, and Social Cognitive Theory. The program emphasizes the importance of making informed choices, feeling competent and connected, and learning through observation and modeling. Facilitators play a pivotal role, leading group discussions, providing support, and fostering an inclusive atmosphere. The program is structured into weekly sessions that tackle each health behavior, interspersed with off weeks; for community engagement, especially in barbershops, to discuss health topics and promote a healthier lifestyle.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
15
The Fade to Fitness Program is a group-based and barbershop-based behavioral intervention to improve health-related quality of life among African American men. The program is unique because it is culturally targeted and individually tailored. The culturally targeted content was developed following barbershop-based focus groups. The Fade to Fitness Program targets four behaviors strongly linked to health-related quality of life among African American men - physical activity, healthy eating, stress management, and depression management. During the group-based portion of the program, Motivational Interviewing is used by the facilitator as a conversational approach to enhance participants\' motivation and commitment towards positive behavior change. The goal is to foster intrinsic motivation among participants to engage in these behaviors. It is individually tailored by encouraging participants to identify personal values and linking them to health promoting behaviors.
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina, United States
RECRUITINGNumber of men who are eligible/eligible.
An excel sheet will be used to track the number of men who express interest in the study and are eligible/ineligible.
Time frame: Up to 1 week
Length of time needed to enroll 15 men
An excel sheet will be used to track length of time needed to enroll 15 men.
Time frame: Up to 1 week
Facilitator-assessed attendance in intervention
An excel sheet will be used to track each participant's attendance. Participants attendance will be entered as 1 (attended) or 0 (did not attend).
Time frame: Up to 1 week
Number of men who express interest in the study
Time frame: Up to 1 week
Attrition in intervention
The excel sheet used to assess attendance will be used to assess attrition.
Time frame: Baseline to 5 months
Acceptability, appropriateness, demand, implementation, practicality, and integration of the intervention
Qualitative data will be collected based on guidelines created by research funded by the National Cancer Institute to understand the feasibility of health promotion interventions among underserved populations. The interview questions will assess the acceptability (e.g., satisfaction, perceived appropriateness, fit with cultural structure), demand (e.g., intent to use, actual use, expressed interest or intention to use), implementation (e.g., degree of execution), practicality (e.g., amount of time needed, quality of implementation, ability to carry out intervention activities), and integration (e.g., perceived sustainability) of the intervention.
Time frame: 2 months
Change in weight
Time frame: Change from baseline to 5 months
Change in body mass index
Time frame: Change from baseline to 5 months
Change in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity
Average minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity measured over 5 consecutive days using an accelerometer
Time frame: Baseline to 5 months
Global Health - Mental 2a
2-item measure of mental health; range: 2 - 10 with higher scores indicating better mental health.
Time frame: Baseline to 5 months
Global Health - Physical 2a
2-item measure of physical health; range: 2 - 10 with higher scores indicating better physical health.
Time frame: Baseline to 5 months
Perceived Stress Scale
10-item measure of perceived stress; range: 0 - 40 with higher scores indicating more perceived stress.
Time frame: Baseline to 5 months
Emotional Distress - Depression - Short Form 4a
4-item measure of depression; range: 4 - 20 with higher scores indicating more depressive symptoms.
Time frame: Baseline to 5 months
Healthy Eating Subscale of the Health Promotion Lifestyle Profile II
9-item measure of healthy eating; range: 9 - 36 with higher scores indicating greater engagement in healthy eating.
Time frame: Baseline to 5 months
Instrumental Support- Short Form 4a
4-item measure of instrumental support; range: 4 - 20 with higher scores indicating more instrumental support.
Time frame: Baseline to 5 months
Informational Support - Short Form 4a
4-item measure of informational support; range: 4 - 20 with higher scores indicating more informational support.
Time frame: Baseline to 5 months
Emotional Support - Short Form 4a
4-item measure of emotional support; range: 4 - 20 with higher scores indicating more emotional support.
Time frame: Baseline to 5 months
Companionship - Short Form 4a
4-item measure of companionship; range: 4 - 20 with higher scores indicating more companionship.
Time frame: Baseline to 5 months
Motivation and Attitudes Towards Changing Health (MATCH)
9-item measure of health motivation; range: 9 - 45 with higher scores indicating greater health motivation.
Time frame: Baseline to 5 months
NIH Self-Efficacy Measure
10-item measure of health self-efficacy; range: 10 - 50 with higher scores indicating greater health self-efficacy.
Time frame: Baseline to 5 months
Subjective Social Norms of Health Behavior
4-item measure using a researcher-developed subjective social norms measure to engage in health behaviors; range: 4 - 28 with higher scores indicating fewer social norms to engage in health behaviors.
Time frame: Baseline to 5 months
Valuing Questionnaire
10-item measure to assess values-based behavior; range: 0 - 60 with higher scores indicating more values-based behaviors.
Time frame: Baseline to 5 months
Diet
Measure using the Dietary Screener Questionnaire (variable length). This measure assess amount of dietary intake of fruits, vegetables, fiber, added sugars, calcium, dairy, and whole grains. A higher response indicates more intake of fruits, vegetables, fiber, added sugars, calcium, dairy, and whole grains.
Time frame: Baseline to 5 months
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