Clinical trial NCT06627439: A Web-Based Healthy Living Training for Promotores
Official title: Comadres Saludables: a Web-Based Promotora Training Program for Obesity Prevention in Hispanic Women
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Obesity Prevention
Keywords: Obesity
Latina
Lead sponsor: ISA Associates, Inc.
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
First posted: 2024-10-04
Enrollment: 124
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The goal of this clinical trial is to test a new web-based promotora de salud/ community health worker (CHW) training. This training is designed to provide CHWs with the knowledge and skills to effectively implement a healthy living intervention for Latinas. The main question it aims to answer is:

o Do CHWs who complete the web-based healthy living training have higher self-efficacy in implementing core lifestyle intervention learning components for obesity interventions in Hispanics than CHWs who do not?

Participants will:

* Complete a baseline survey asking about self-efficacy related to implementing core lifestyle intervention learning components, knowledge, health behaviors, and skill mastery.
* Be randomized to receive the new web-based training or to a standard CHW training designed by Health and Human Services. The new web-based training provides promotores with the self-efficacy, knowledge, and skills required to effectively implement an obesity intervention for Hispanic women. Promotores will build their skillset through interactive quizzes, exercises, video role-playing scenarios, and interactive tools.
* Complete follow-up surveys at 3 months and 6 months after the baseline survey. This survey will ask the same questions as the baseline survey and will include additional questions regarding satisfaction with training and behavior application.

Researchers will compare participants who receive the new web-based training to participants who utilize the HHS training. The goal is to see whether the new web-based training increases self-efficacy among CHWs to effectively implement core lifestyle learning components for obesity interventions in Hispanics.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 18 years of age and old
* Comfortable speaking, reading, and writing English OR Spanish
* Female
* Access to a computer that has internet
* Not Pregnant
* Have a community health worker certification through the state of TX OR have worked over 6 moths as a community health worker and meets core competencies for CHWs
* Provides services to Hispanic populations

Exclusion Criteria:

* Less than 18 years of age and old
* Not comfortable speaking, reading, and writing English OR Spanish
* Male
* Does not have access to a computer that has internet
* Pregnant
* Does not have a community health worker certification through the state of TX OR have not worked over 6 moths as a community health worker and does not meet core competencies for CHWs
* Does not provide services to Hispanic populations

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Baseline Self-Efficacy at week 12 and week 24
timeFrame: Baseline, Week 12, and Week 24
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Obesity Intervention Knowledge Questionnaire
timeFrame: Baseline, Week 12, and Week 24
measure: Self-Report Skill Mastery
timeFrame: Baseline, Week 12, and Week 24
measure: Satisfaction with Training
timeFrame: Week 12
measure: Behavior Application
timeFrame: Week 24
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Arlington
country: United States
facility: ISA Associates
state: Virginia
Study officials:
affiliation: ISA Associates
name: Debra M Rios, DrPH
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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