Abriendo Caminos 2: Clearing the Path to Hispanic Health

Obesity is significantly higher in specific ethnic groups and, in particular, Hispanics. There is an urgent need to implement culturally-sensitive lifestyle interventions and educational programs to decrease the burden of obesity and obesity-related metabolic diseases in Hispanic populations. Accordingly, our overreaching goal is to tailor an existing and successful community-based program, Abriendo Caminos, to leverage effectiveness in promoting healthy nutrition and life-style behaviors among low income, low literacy Hispanic-heritage families. Our multi-function integrated project proposes to (a) adapt Abriendo Caminos for 6-18 year-old children from Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage in five different locations (California, Illinois, Iowa, Puerto Rico, and Texas) and (b) Train existing professionals (in Extension and community agencies) and future professionals (Hispanic university students) to meet the specific needs of this population. Our central hypothesis is that participation in a 6-week community-based program will prevent childhood obesity/maintain healthy weight by significantly increasing: (a) healthy dietary behavior patterns and basic knowledge of nutrition; (b) physical activity levels; and (c) the organization of collective/shared family mealtimes. The implementation of this culturally sensitive, workshop-based curriculum in different regions across the country will help to train the next generation of professionals in Extension and communities to deliver programs that meet the needs of Hispanic families. The integration of Hispanic college students in program implementation via an experiential learning course will further strengthen the program, as well as increase recruitment and retention of Hispanic students, increasing the capacity of Hispanic communities to meet their own needs in the future.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Obesity; Childhood Obesity; Nutrient; Excess; Community Health Education
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Education and Behavior

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 500
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Puerto Rico
  • San Juan, Puerto Rico
    • Recruiting
    • University of Puerto Rico
    • Contact: Maria Plaza, PhD; Email: maria.plaza@upr.edu
• United States
  • California
    • Fresno, California, United States
      • Active, not recruiting
      • California State University
  • Illinois
    • Urbana, Illinois, United States, 61801
      • Active, not recruiting
      • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Iowa
    • Ames, Iowa, United States, 50011
      • Active, not recruiting
      • Iowa State University
  • Texas
    • Houston, Texas, United States
      • Recruiting
      • University of Houston
      • Contact: Norma Olvera, PhD; Email: NOlvera@Central.UH.EDU

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 6 years to 18 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• a family member being 6-18 years of age
• at least 1 parent being of Hispanic-heritage from Mexican or Puerto Rican origin

Exclusion Criteria:

• no child in the age range of 6-18 years of age
• No parents being of Hispanic-heritage from Mexican or Puerto Rican origin

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention; The Intervention is educational with 6 workshops for 2 hrs a week. Data/ assessments are collected, pre and post the 6 weeks intervention and 6 months post follow-up.	Behavioral: Education and Behavior; Involves 6-weeks of education related to healthy behaviors, nutrition, and exercise.
No Intervention: Control; One or two non-intervention related workshop talks are given; 1 hr each during the same 6 weeks as the intervention arm. Pre and post assessment/ data collection and 6 months follow-up are completed.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
BMI	Body mass index = weight per height square in metrics	Baseline
BMI	Body mass index = weight per height square in metrics	6-month post intervention

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Collaborators: University of Houston; University of Puerto Rico; Iowa State University; California State University, Fresno Foundation

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 10, 2015
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): January 1, 2020
• Study Completion (Anticipated): March 31, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 1, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 20, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): April 23, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): January 22, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 18, 2019
• Last Verified: January 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Overnutrition; Nutrition Disorders; Overweight; Body Weight; Obesity; Pediatric Obesity
• Other Study ID Numbers: 15503

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED
• IPD Plan Description: If researchers are interested in obtaining study data please contact the PI for further discussions and what approvals such as IRB is needed to gain access to deidentified data.

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No