'Ai Pono Cooking Demonstrations for Cardiometabolic Health
This study, called 'Ai Pono Cooking Demonstrations, is looking at how hands-on cooking and cultural lessons can help Native Hawaiians manage health conditions like Type 2 Diabetes, high blood pressure (Hypertension), and high cholesterol (Dyslipidemias), and reduce overweight and obesity. The lessons will focus on traditional Hawaiian foods and their cultural importance, especially linking vegetable consumption to health. Researchers will measure changes in your family and nutrition environment, and how connected your community feels (Social Cohesion) over four years. To join, you must be at least 18 years old, a Native Hawaiian living in a participating homestead, be overweight or obese, and have a diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes, pre-diabetes, high blood pressure, and/or high cholesterol. The study is currently unclear on its recruitment status and aims to enroll 1780 participants.
- Study design
- This is an interventional study with a planned enrollment of 1780 participants. It involves community-wide cooking demonstrations and cultural lessons.
- What's involved
- You would attend quarterly cooking demonstrations and cultural lessons, each lasting 2 hours. You would also complete short surveys (5-10 minutes) at each event.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Participants will be followed for changes in family environment, nutrition environment, and social cohesion at baseline, 1-year, 2-year, 3-year, and 4-year marks.
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'Ai Pono Cooking Demonstrations
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
2 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- Claire Ing, DrPH · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Principal Investigator
- Kulani DeSimone, B.S. · STUDY_CHAIR · Graduate Assistant
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What this trial measures
- Family EnvironmentBaseline, 1-year, 2-year, 3-year, 4-year
Three subscales, Cohesion, Expressiveness, and Conflict, assess the degree of commitment and support family members provide for one another, the extent to which family members are encouraged to express their feelings directly, and the amount of openly expressed anger and conflict among family members.
- Nutrition EnvironmentBaseline, 1-year, 2-year, 3-year, 4-year
The perceived 9-item nutrition environment will be measured by the Gustafson Perceived Nutrition Environment Measures questionnaire, which examines perceived access and availability of healthy foods within \~1 mile of the participant's home, and the availability and affordability of produce in the participant's primary food store. The responses and scores vary depending on the question including 0- disagree, 1-agree, and 0-not important, 1-slightly important, 2-moderately important, 3- important, 4-very important. Higher scores indicate higher perceived access and availability of food.
- Social CohesionnBaseline, 1-year, 2-year, 3-year, 4-year
4-item subscale of the neighborhood level stressors which asks about perceived shared values and trust.