Health and Faith (Salud y Fe): Community-Based Diabetes Pilot Intervention
Health and Faith (Salud y Fe): Community-Based Diabetes Pilot Intervention
Main objective: To improve diabetes outcomes among Mexican-Americans with diabetes through church-based, culturally tailored, diabetes self-management interventions linked to the local healthcare system.
Specific Aim: To pilot test a church-based, culturally tailored diabetes self-management intervention to improve diabetes outcomes among low-income Mexican-American with diabetes
H1 A church-based diabetes self-care management curriculum partnered with the local healthcare system will improve glycosylated hemoglobin.
H2 A church-based diabetes self-care management curriculum partnered with the local healthcare system will improve systolic blood pressure and low-density lipids.
H3 A church-based diabetes self-care management curriculum partnered with the local healthcare system will improve diabetes related self-efficacy, self-empowerment and self-care management.
Diabetes is a very prevalent and morbid condition affecting Latinos, especially Mexican-Americans in the United States. South Lawndale, a predominately-Mexican neighborhood of Chicago, has a disproportionately high diabetes related mortality rate in comparison to the rest of Chicago and the U.S. Many church-based interventions have shown promise improving health outcomes among minority populations; but data on church-based interventions for Latino populations is scarce. Mobilizing community resources to develop church-based, diabetes self-management interventions may lead to sustainable, culturally tailored interventions, and improve outcomes in Latinos with diabetes. Considering the growth of the Hispanic population and their disproportionate burden of chronic diseases, developing programming aimed at decreasing the health disparities in this population is crucial. Our study proposes to fill this gap.
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