Develop and test the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a family-based diabetes prevention program for high-risk Latino families in Maryvale, AZ.
Develop a smartphone application using Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping to identify physical and social supports for health promotion and disease prevention in Maryvale, AZ.
The study will test the effectiveness of a year-long, culturally-grounded, lifestyle intervention program for reducing diabetes risk in obese Latino adolescents with prediabetic diagnosis and plans to enroll 120 adolescents to be randomly assigned to a community-based diabetes prevention program or a usual care control group.
Sustainability via Active Garden Education (SAGE) is a garden based physical activity and nutrition intervention for preschool-aged children. The SAGE curriculum uses a school garden as a metaphor for child development and engages children in interactive games, songs, and learning activities. The SAGE curriculum focuses on improving physical activity, sedentary behaviors, fruit, and vegetable consumption, reducing eating in the absence of hunger, and also encourages healthy behavior changes and parenting practices in parents.
Acute respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation in an intensive care unit (ICU) is common, affecting almost 800,000 people each year. With survival from acute respiratory failure improving over time, research on quality of life among ICU survivors and their family members has become increasingly important. To date, this research has mainly focused on the negative experiences of survivors and their family members, including long-term psychological symptoms of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress.
For patients and their intimate partners, cancer poses significant physical and emotional challenges that can negatively impact both individuals and the couple as a whole. Accumulating evidence suggests that couples’ ability to communicate effectively, or lack thereof, plays a major role in the psychological adjustment of both individuals and the quality of their relationship. Two key conceptual models have been proposed to account for how communication difficulties lead to poorer outcomes: the social-cognitive processing model and the relationship intimacy model.
The award, which is the first PCORI award for ASU, will allow the research team to build a broad-based coalition to address the care-coordination needs of children with special health-care needs (CSHCN) and their families. The children who are the focus of the project have chronic physical, developmental, behavioral or emotional conditions that require health care and related services beyond what is typically required for children without these conditions.
Designed to build greater capacity among health and social service providers acrosee Arizona to care for Femal Genitalia Cutting affected populations and build community knowledge and awareness of FGC-related health issues and available services.
Community partners (St. Vincent de Paul Family Wellness Program and Lincoln Family YMCA) and SIRC tested the efficacy of a culturally-grounded diabetes prevention intervention, Every Little Step Counts (ELSC) for obese Latino adolescents from 2012-2017. This NIMHD award includes a five-year continuation study, Follow-up of a Culturally-Grounded Diabetes Prevention Program for Obese Latino Adolescents, led by Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (CHPDP) director Dr. Gabe Shaibi.