Trial reportJournal of community health2016
Community Trial of a Faith-Based Lifestyle Intervention to Prevent Diabetes Among African-Americans.
Trial report in Journal of community health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01730196 (Fit Body and Soul), which is not on this map. Cited by 70 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Fit Body and Soul: A Lifestyle Intervention for Diabetes Prevention Conducted Through African American Churches
Who cites it
70 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- How effective are church-based weight-loss interventions among Black adults? A systematic review.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2024Pooled it
- Culturally tailored lifestyle interventions for the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes in adults of Black African ancestry: a systematic review of tailoring methods and their effectiveness.Public health nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- A Multilevel Diabetes and CVD Risk Reduction Intervention in African American Churches: Project Faith Influencing Transformation (FIT) Feasibility and Outcomes.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2020Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Church-Based Health Interventions Among Latinos.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2020Pooled it
- Church-based interventions to address obesity among African Americans and Latinos in the United States: a systematic review.Nutrition reviews · 2020Pooled it
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- HIV Testing in African American Churches: Results from the Taking It to the Pews Cluster-Randomized Trial.AIDS and behavior · 2026Trial
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- Participants' Perspectives on Diabetes Self-Management Programming at Church: Faith-Placed Versus Faith-Based Approach.The science of diabetes self-management and care · 2024Trial
- Promoting Physical Activity Among Immigrant Asian Americans: Results from Four Community Health Worker Studies.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2023Trial
- Differences in Weight Loss by Race and Ethnicity in the PRIDE Trial: a Qualitative Analysis of Participant Perspectives.Journal of general internal medicine · 2022Trial
- Better Me Within Randomized Trial: Faith-Based Diabetes Prevention Program for Weight Loss in African American Women.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2021Trial
- Impact of Physical Activity and Weight Loss on Fat Mass, Glucose Metabolism, and Inflammation in Older African Americans with Osteoarthritis.Nutrients · 2020Trial
- Eat, Pray, Move: A Pilot Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of a Multilevel Church-Based Intervention to Address Obesity Among African Americans and Latinos.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2019Trial
- Dissemination of the Look AHEAD Intensive Lifestyle Intervention in the United States Military: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2018Trial
- A Church-Based Weight Loss Intervention in African American Adults using Text Messages (LEAN Study): Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2018Trial
- Community-based participatory research to design a faith-enhanced diabetes prevention program: The Better Me Within randomized trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2017Trial
- Effectiveness of a Group-Based Culturally Tailored Lifestyle Intervention Program on Changes in Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes among Asian Indians in the United States.Journal of diabetes research · 2017Trial
- Implementing a Covid-19 Testing Intervention in African American Testing Deserts in Chicago: an Academic-Community Partnership to Promote Covid-19 Health Equity.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Involving community members in designing behavioural weight management programmes: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2026Article
10 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
About 75% of African-Americans (AAs) ages 20 or older are overweight and nearly 50% are obese, but community-based programs to reduce diabetes risk in AAs are rare. Our objective was to reduce weight and fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and increase physical activity (PA) from baseline to week-12 and to month-12 among overweight AA parishioners through a faith-based adaptation of the Diabetes Prevention Program called Fit Body and Soul (FBAS). We conducted a single-blinded, cluster randomized, community trial in 20 AA churches enrolling 604 AAs, aged 20-64 years with BMI ≥ 25 kg/m(2) and without diabetes. The church (and their parishioners) was randomized to FBAS or health education (HE). FBAS participants had a significant difference in adjusted weight loss compared with those in HE (2.62 vs. 0.50 kg, p = 0.001) at 12-weeks and (2.39 vs. -0.465 kg, p = 0.005) at 12-months and were more likely (13%) than HE participants (3%) to achieve a 7% weight loss (p < 0.001) at 12-weeks and a 7% weight loss (19 vs. 8%, p < 0.001) at 12-months. There were no significant differences in FPG and PA between arms. Of the 15.2% of participants with baseline pre-diabetes, those in FBAS had, however, a significant decline in FPG (10.93 mg/dl) at 12-weeks compared with the 4.22 mg/dl increase in HE (p = 0.017), and these differences became larger at 12-months (FBAS, 12.38 mg/dl decrease; HE, 4.44 mg/dl increase) (p = 0.021). Our faith-based adaptation of the DPP led to a significant reduction in weight overall and in FPG among pre-diabetes participants. CLINICALTRIALS. GOV IDENTIFIER: NCT01730196.
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