Sisters for Heart Health: Improving Heart Health in Farmworker Women
This study, "Sisters for Heart Health," is looking at ways to improve heart health in farmworker women aged 18 to 50. It aims to help with issues like occupational stress, stress related to gender, social isolation, high blood pressure (hypertension), and pre-diabetes. The study compares two approaches: one involves ten weekly in-person peer support group sessions led by trained community health workers (CHWs), focusing on heart health, stress management, and other topics. The other approach provides information on heart health, stress management, and your baseline health assessment results. The goal is to see if these interventions can improve your heart health, diet, and physical activity. To join, you must be a self-identified female farmworker, fluent in Spanish or English, and planning to stay in the area for at least 6 months. The study is currently recruiting 269 participants.
- Study design
- This is an interventional study comparing two behavioral interventions. It plans to enroll 269 women.
- What's involved
- If you join the "Sisters for Heart Health" group, you will attend ten weekly, 60-75-minute in-person peer support group sessions. Your cardiometabolic health, diet, and physical activity will be measured at baseline, 3 months, and 6-9 months.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Your cardiometabolic health will be followed for 7-9 months after the start of the study.
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Sisters for Heart Health: A Community Health Worker Initiative for Improving Heart Health in Farmworker Women
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- Erin Ferranti, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Emory University
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What this trial measures
- Change in cardiometabolic healthT-0 (Baseline) ,T2 (3 months), T3 (6 months), T4 (7-9 months)
The AHA's Life's Essential 8 score will be used to assess cardiometabolic health. The 8 components include 4 health behaviors (self-report) and 4 health factors (objective data). Each component is assigned 0-100 points per AHA LE8 scoring instructions. The total score is calculated as the mean of the 8 scores; higher total LE8 scores indicate greater adherence to health-promoting behaviors and factors.
- Change in dietBaseline, End of study (3 months)
Diet will be assessed with the 23-item Mediterranean Eating Pattern for Americans (MEPA) III Questionnaire, adapted from the Mediterranean Diet Adherence Scale. MEPA assesses accordance with the Mediterranean-like diet pattern and asks about consumption of vegetables, nuts and seeds, fruits, fats and oils, meat and fish, dairy, beans and grains, desserts and fast food, and beverages Higher scores reflect greater adherence.
- Change in physical activityBaseline, End of study (3 months)
Physical activity will be assessed with the 27-item International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ), a seven-day physical activity recall used in several large-scale studies and validated for use with our target population. A composite measure of physical activity will be derived based on the number of moderate to vigorous physical activity \[5-8 metabolic equivalents (METs)\] events the participant had in a typical week
- Change in nicotine consumptionBaseline, End of study (3 months)
Nicotine will be assessed in the health history survey. Questions include the history of current or ever smoked, the number of cigarettes smoked per day, and whether they live with an active smoker
- Change in SleepBaseline, End of study (3 months)
Sleep will be assessed with the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), a validated scale consisting of 7 components: subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, habitual sleep efficiency, sleep disturbances, use of sleep medications, and daytime dysfunction. Each component is scored from 0 to 3, with higher scores indicating poorer sleep quality. The global PSQI score ranges from 0 to 21, and a score greater than 5 typically indicates poor sleep quality.
- Change in Body Mass Index (BMI)Baseline, End of study (3 months)
Body mass index (BMI) will be calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared from measured height and weight. Measurements of height to the nearest 0.1 cm using A SECA 213 portable stadiometer and weight to the nearest 0.1 kg using a SECA 813 high-capacity weight scale will be conducted in duplicate.
- Change in Lipids (non-HDL cholesterol)Baseline, End of study (3 months)
Change in lipid levels throughout the study.
- Change in HbA1cBaseline, End of study ( 3 months)
Change in the HbA1c levels during the study will be reported
- Change in Blood pressureBaseline, End of study (3 months)
Blood pressure (BP) (resting) will be measured three times with a CARESCAPE V100 blood pressure monitor after the participant is seated for five minutes. The average of the last two BP measurements will be used to calculate the mean systolic and diastolic BP.