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Trial reportAmerican journal of health promotion : AJHP2019

Eat, Pray, Move: A Pilot Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of a Multilevel Church-Based Intervention to Address Obesity Among African Americans and Latinos.

Kathryn P Derose, Malcolm V Williams, Karen R Flórez, Beth Ann Griffin, Denise D Payán, Rachana Seelam, Cheryl A Branch, Jennifer Hawes-Dawson, Michael A Mata, Margaret D Whitley and 1 more

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Trial report in American journal of health promotion : AJHP, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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29citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The impact of public policy on socioeconomic equity in physical activity: a systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2026
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  17. Locking the Revolving Door: Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Kathryn P Derose1 RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7742-6024
Malcolm V Williams1 RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
Karen R Flórez2 City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York City, NY, USA.
Beth Ann Griffin3 RAND Corporation, Washington, DC, USA.
Denise D Payán1 RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3236-862X
Rachana Seelam1 RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
Cheryl A Branch5 Los Angeles Metropolitan Churches (LAM), Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Jennifer Hawes-Dawson1 RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
Michael A Mata6 Azusa Pacific Seminary, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Margaret D Whitley1 RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
Eunice C Wong1 RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
RAND Corporation · USAzusa Pacific University · USCity University of New York · US

Funding

UCLA/RAND HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAMT32HS000046 · AHRQ · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI EISENBERG, DANIEL · 1992 to 2024
$8.7M
A Multi-Ethnic Faith and Public Health Partnership to Reduce Health DisparitiesR24MD007943 · NIMHD · RAND CORPORATION · PI DEROSE, KATHRYN PITKIN · 2013 to 2015
$1.3M
AHRQ HHS T32 HS000046NIMHD NIH HHS R24 MD007943
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo implement a multilevel, church-based intervention with diverse disparity populations using community-based participatory research and evaluate feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness in improving obesity-related outcomes.

designCluster randomized controlled trial (pilot).

settingTwo midsized (∼200 adults) African American baptist and 2 very large (∼2000) Latino Catholic churches in South Los Angeles, California.

participantsAdult (18+ years) congregants (n = 268 enrolled at baseline, ranging from 45 to 99 per church).

interventionVarious components were implemented over 5 months and included 2 sermons by pastor, educational handouts, church vegetable and fruit gardens, cooking and nutrition classes, daily mobile messaging, community mapping of food and physical activity environments, and identification of congregational policy changes to increase healthy meals. MEASURES: Outcomes included objectively measured body weight, body mass index (BMI), and systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP), plus self-reported overall healthiness of diet and usual minutes spent in physical activity each week; control variables include sex, age, race-ethnicity, English proficiency, education, household income, and (for physical activity outcome) self-reported health status. ANALYSIS: Multivariate linear regression models estimated the average effect size of the intervention, controlling for pair fixed effects, a main effect of the intervention, and baseline values of the outcomes.

resultsAmong those completing follow-up (68%), the intervention resulted in statistically significantly less weight gain and greater weight loss (-0.05 effect sizes; 95% confidence interval [CI] = -0.06 to -0.04), lower BMI (-0.08; 95% CI = -0.11 to -0.05), and healthier diet (-0.09; 95% CI = -0.17 to -0.00). There was no evidence of an intervention impact on BP or physical activity minutes per week.

conclusionImplementing a multilevel intervention across diverse congregations resulted in small improvements in obesity outcomes. A longer time line is needed to fully implement and assess effects of community and congregation environmental strategies and to allow for potential larger impacts of the intervention.

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Black or African AmericanHispanic or LatinoReligion and MedicineBody Mass IndexBody WeightCatholicismFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedObesityPilot ProjectsProtestantismWeight Reduction ProgramsAfrican Americanschurch-basedinterventionsLatinosmultilevelobesity

Identifiers

PMID30474376
PMCPMC7171715
OpenAlexW2902646376

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