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Trial reportJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2017

A CBPR Study to Test the Impact of a Church-Based Health Empowerment Program on Health Behaviors and Health Outcomes of Black Adult Churchgoers.

Carolyn M Tucker, Guillermo M Wippold, Jaime L Williams, Tya M Arthur, Frederic F Desmond, Karlyne C Robinson

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Trial report in Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  9. Empowerment in Obesity and Behavioral Weight-Management Programmes: A Scoping Review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026
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  12. Socioeconomic Status, Social Support, and Quality of Life Among Black Adults.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025
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  15. Shop Talk: A Qualitative Study to Understand Peer Health-related Communication Among Black Men at the Barbershop.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2024
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  18. Implementing barbershop-based health-promotion interventions for Black men: A systematic scoping review.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2023
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  20. Predictors of Health-Related Quality of Life Among African American Men.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Carolyn M TuckerDepartment of Psychology, University of Florida, P.O. Box 112250, Gainesville, FL, 32611-2250, USA.
Guillermo M WippoldDepartment of Psychology, University of Florida, P.O. Box 112250, Gainesville, FL, 32611-2250, USA. gwippold@ufl.edu.
Jaime L WilliamsDepartment of Psychology, University of Florida, P.O. Box 112250, Gainesville, FL, 32611-2250, USA.
Tya M ArthurDepartment of Psychology, University of Florida, P.O. Box 112250, Gainesville, FL, 32611-2250, USA.
Frederic F DesmondDepartment of Psychology, University of Florida, P.O. Box 112250, Gainesville, FL, 32611-2250, USA.
Karlyne C RobinsonDepartment of Psychology, University of Florida, P.O. Box 112250, Gainesville, FL, 32611-2250, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Black adults in the United States are disproportionately affected by health disparities, such as overweight and obesity. Research suggests that Black adults engage in fewer health-promoting behaviors (e.g., physical activity and healthy eating) than their non-Hispanic White counterparts. These health-promoting behaviors are known protective factors against overweight/obesity and related health concerns. This community-based participatory research study employed a waitlist control design and a university-church partnership approach to test the impact of a church-based health-empowerment program designed to increase health-promoting behaviors (called health-smart behaviors) and improve health indicators (e.g., reduce weight) among overweight/obese Black adult churchgoers. Results indicate that the intervention group (n = 37) experienced a significant increase in levels of healthy eating and physical activity and a significant decrease in weight compared to the waitlist control group (n = 33). Results from this study have implications for the design of church-based, culturally sensitive health promotion interventions to increase health-smart behaviors and ultimately prevent and reduce obesity and related diseases in Black communities.

Indexed as

Power, PsychologicalReligionAdolescentAdultBlack or African AmericanCommunity-Based Participatory ResearchFemaleHealth BehaviorHealth PromotionHealth Status DisparitiesHumansMaleMiddle AgedObesityOverweightProgram EvaluationBlack adultsChurch-based health programCommunity-based participatory researchHealth disparitiesHealth promotion

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PMID26830631

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