ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2015
Tu Salud, ¡Si Cuenta!: Exposure to a community-wide campaign and its associations with physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption among individuals of Mexican descent.
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- Targeted mass media interventions promoting healthy behaviours to reduce risk of non-communicable diseases in adult, ethnic minorities.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Recommended Levels of Physical Activity Are Associated with Reduced Risk of the Metabolic Syndrome in Mexican-Americans.PloS one · 2016Trial
- The association of cancer-preventive lifestyle with colonoscopy screening use in border Hispanic adults along the Texas-Mexico border.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2025Article
- Quantile regression based method for characterizing risk-specific behavioral patterns in relation to longitudinal left-censored biomarker data collected from heterogeneous populations.Journal of applied statistics · 2025Article
- Changes in the Perceptions of the Neighborhood Environment and Physical Activity Patterns Among Mexican Americans on the Texas-Mexico Border.Journal of physical activity & health · 2024Article
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- Evaluating the Dissemination and Implementation of a Community Health Worker-Based Community Wide Campaign to Improve Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Physical Activity among Latinos along the U.S.-Mexico Border.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Scaling a Community-Wide Campaign Intervention to Manage Hypertension and Weight Loss.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- A qualitative analysis of the social and cultural contexts that shape screen time use in Latino families living on the U.S.-Mexico border.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2020Article
- Hispanic adults' physical activity and sedentary behavior profiles: examining existing data to drive prospective research.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2020Article
- Weight loss and weight gain among participants in a community-based weight loss Challenge.BMC obesity · 2019Article
- Fruit and Vegetable Intake is Inversely Associated with Cancer Risk in Mexican-Americans.Nutrition and cancer · 2019Article
- Association between fruit and vegetable intake and symptoms of mental health conditions in Mexican Americans.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2018Article
- Exposure to a community-wide campaign is associated with physical activity and sedentary behavior among Hispanic adults on the Texas-Mexico border.BMC public health · 2017Article
- Transition from pre-diabetes to diabetes and predictors of risk in Mexican-Americans.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2017Article
- Health by Design: Interweaving Health Promotion into Environments and Settings.Frontiers in public health · 2017Article
- Meeting or Exceeding Physical Activity Guidelines is Associated with Reduced Risk for Cancer in Mexican-Americans.American journal of cancer prevention · 2016Article
- Tu Salud ¡Sí Cuenta! Your Health Matters! A Community-wide Campaign in a Hispanic Border Community in Texas.Journal of nutrition education and behaviorArticle
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Abstract
Mexican Americans along the US-Mexico border have been found to be disproportionately affected by chronic diseases particularly related to lack of physical activity and healthful food choices. A community-wide campaign (CWC) is an evidence-based strategy to address these behaviors but with few examples of implementation in Mexican descent populations facing profound health disparities. We examined exposure to a CWC, titled Tu Salud ¡Sí Cuenta!, and its association with meeting the recommended minutes of moderate and vigorous physical activity weekly and consuming more portions of fruits and vegetables daily. A cross-sectional sample of 1438 Mexican descent participants was drawn from a city-wide, randomly-selected cohort interviewed between the years 2008 and 2012. Multivariable comparisons of participants exposed and not exposed to the CWC and meeting physical activity guidelines or their fruit and vegetable consumptions using mixed effects models were conducted. The community-wide campaign components included different forms of mass media and individually-focused components such as community health worker (CHW) home visits. After adjusting for gender, age, marital status, educational attainment, language preference, health insurance, and diabetes diagnosis, the strongest association was found between meeting physical activity guidelines and exposure to both CHW discussions and radio messages (adjusted OR = 3.83; 95% CI = [1.28, 6.21]; p = 0.0099). Participants who reported exposure to both radio and TV messages consumed more portions of fruits and vegetables than those who reported no exposure (adjusted RR = 1.30; 95% CI = [1.02, 1.66]; p = 0.0338). This study provides insights into the implementation and behavioral outcomes associated with exposure to a community-wide campaign, a potential model for addressing lifestyle modifications in populations affected by health disparities.
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