The National Hispanic Science Network (NHSN) Early Career Stage Mentoring Program for NIDA Research (ECSM) addresses a current Hispanic minority under-representation among NIHINIDA principal investigators, and will provide training and mentoring for Hispanic early career stage scientists, including future HNI AIDS researchers.
The project will serve as an independent evaluation center for three childhood obesity demonstration projects. The aims of the BETTER Policies project are to: assist the three DP in identifying assessment methods and tools; design a comprehensive evaluation plan in collaboration with the projects and CDC; serve as the central data repository; conduct an impact evaluation to assess process and outcomes of the projects; disseminate information and recommendations to decision-makers and the public; develop an evaluation toolbox that can be used in future program evaluations.
To develop a biobank and patient registry of Latino patients’ phenotype for type 2 diabetes risk factors.
The aim of this research project is to develop a virtual reality weight management intervention for women with mobility impairments. The program will mostly focus on diet and nutrition and will address barriers that women with mobility impairments face when preparing foods, such as the use of their arms and their ability to stand up. The program will also provide information about physical activity, such as advisable types of exercise for women with mobility impairments.
A randomized-controlled trial to test the efficacy of a culturally grounded, community-based diabetes prevention program to increase insulin sensitivity and weight-specific quality of life in 160 obese Latino youth.
This project will continue a program of research investigating the relationships among alcohol consumption, sexual victimization history, and STI/HIV-related risk taking in young adult women. The original project investigated the influence of women's alcohol intoxication, sexual victimization history, and partner characteristics on women's HIV-related sexual decision making through two alcohol administration experiments. It will examine the daily influence of emotional states and emotion regulation strategies on alcohol consumption and sexual risk behavior.
This study will demonstrate that community health workers (CHW), supervised by public health nurses, can deliver a home-based obesity prevention intervention to low-income Mexican and Mexican-American women and children in a major urban area. The CHW will work with WIC clients to support them in breastfeeding their infants and teach them about feeding and caring for their infants.
Regular screening facilitates the early diagnosis of colorectal cancer (CRC), the second leading cause of cancer death, and contributes to the reduction of CRC morbidity and mortality, but the hardest-to-reach patients are still under-screened.
This research will examine a web-based personalized feedback intervention to reduce Alcohol-Related risky sexual behavior among underage young adult drinkers aged 18-20, which is theoretically informed by the Prototype Willingness Model. The research is designed to evaluate a personalized feedback intervention, based on the Prototype Willingness Model, focused on Alcohol-Related risky sexual behavior through a longitudinal study in a national sample of young adults (college and non-college) recruited via social networking sites.