Arden L McMath, Jennifer M Barton, Tianying Cai, Naiman A Khan, Barbara H Fiese, Sharon M Donovan
Western, Healthful, and Low-Preparation Diet Patterns in Preschoolers of the STRONG Kids2 Program
Journal of nutrition education and behavior
health disparities costly preventable differences disease progression disproportionately affect minority communities african americans practices reduce health disparities rooted prevention particularly screening tools family health history tools preventative screening mechanisms meant explore family history better understand individuals health potentially predicted impacted tools underutilized african american community contributions underutilization include lack cultural tailoring tools lack health literacy community members lack effective health communication family health history study create culturally appropriate family health history toolkit increase family health history utilization ultimately decrease health disparities proposed sample composed 195 african american adults ages 18 live genesee county michigan study consists two phases development phase randomized pilot study phase goal development phase n 95 explore family health history toolkits modified better serve african american community using community based participatory research approach create culturally tailored family health history toolkit pilot study phase 100 participants randomized culturally tailored toolkit current standard family health history toolkit outcomes include feasibility acceptability intervention study result culturally appropriate family health history tool codeveloped community members utilized african american adults better understand family health histories clinicaltrialsgov nct05358964 date may 5 2022