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Academic and community partners work together to produce high-quality, relevant publications. Our community partners are actively involved in the creation of manuscripts, serving as co-authors and contributors.
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The Healthy Immigrant Families study was a randomized controlled trial with delayed intervention control group, with families as the randomization unit, to evaluate a socioculturally appropriate intervention to enhance dietary quality and improve physical activity with and for immigrant and refugee families.
The purpose of this pilot feasibility study was to examine the potential effectiveness of a digital storytelling intervention designed through a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach for immigrants and refugees with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).
Persons from Somalia constitute the largest group of immigrants and refugees from Africa among whom diabetes-related health disparities are well documented.
Immigrants experience an escalation of negative health behaviors after arrival to the United States.
Lack of treatment fidelity can be an important source of variation affecting the credibility and utility of outcomes from behavioral intervention research.
Ethnic minorities remain underrepresented in clinical trials despite efforts to increase their enrollment.
Immigrants and refugees are affected by diabetes-related health disparities, with higher rates of incident diabetes and sub-optimal diabetes outcomes.
US immigrants often have escalating cardiovascular risk. Barriers to optimal physical activity and diet have a significant role in this risk accumulation.
Surveys are frequently implemented in community-based participatory research (CBPR), but adaptation and translation of surveys can be logistically and methodologically challenging when working with immigrant and refugee populations.