Engaging men from blue-collar industries in weight loss: Tailoring recruitment and treatment approaches

让蓝领行业的男性参与减肥：定制招募和治疗方法

• 批准号: 10392347
• 负责人: Melissa Marie Crane
• 金额: $ 14.94万
• 依托单位: RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-15 至 2024-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10392347
• 关键词: Address; Area; Behavior Therapy; Behavioral; Body Weight decreased; Cardiovascular system; Clinical Trials; Communication; Custom; Data; Diabetes Mellitus; Educational Background; Enrollment; Evaluation; Feasibility Studies; Focus Groups; Goals; Group Interviews; Health; High Prevalence; Industry; Intervention; Interview; Mentored Research Scientist Development Award; Mentors; Methodology; Methods; Modeling; Obesity; Outcome; Overweight; Participant; Population; Psychologist; Public Health; Qualitative Methods; Research; Research Personnel; Science; Social Sciences; Structure; Surveys; Target Populations; Technical Expertise; Techniques; Training; Transportation; Underserved Population; Weight; Weight maintenance regimen; Woman; Work; base; career; college; comorbidity; design; evidence base; experience; experimental study; feasibility testing; feasibility trial; health communication; health economics; high risk; improved; interdisciplinary approach; interest; male health; men; obesity risk; obesity treatment; operation; preference; programs; randomized trial; recruit; response; retention rate; skills; socioeconomics; tailored messaging; therapy development; weight loss intervention; weight loss program; working men

ABSTRACT Men working in blue-collar industries (e.g., machine operation, transportation, construction, etc.) have a high prevalence of overweight and obesity and have high rates of comorbidities associated with obesity. Unfortunately, these men are unlikely to participate in evidenced-based weight loss interventions. To improve their participation in these programs, a multidisciplinary approach is needed. To address this need, I am applying for this Mentored Research Scientist Development Award to gain additional scientific and technical skills in 1) qualitative methods, 2) communication science, and 3) health economics and apply these skills to intervention development and evaluation. My mentoring team includes psychologists with expertise in behavioral intervention development (Drs. Appelhans and Powell), a men’s health communication and qualitative methodology expert (Dr. Baglia), and a health economist (Dr. Walton). Along with my mentoring team, I have developed a rigorous training plan that will allow me to simultaneously fill the gaps in my training while conducting impactful work focused on an understudied population. I will investigate how to develop recruitment messages that encourage participation in weight loss programs and adapt behavioral weight loss strategies for use among men working in blue-collar industries. Aim 1 of this project is to determine how to tailor recruitment messages and intervention components to maximize reach and engagement of men in weight loss programs. I will conduct semi-structured interviews and focus groups with men from the target population followed by an online closed-response survey. The survey will include a discrete choice experiment which provides data to develop models of participants’ relative preferences for intervention and message components. The second aim is to test the feasibility of using refined messages and intervention components in a randomized trial. The results of this project are crucial for developing appropriate ways to reach this high burden and underserved population and will yield compelling preliminary data for my R01 application. Further, by completing this project I will have the training to launch my career as an independent investigator focused on developing behavioral interventions for underserved populations.

摘要 在蓝领行业工作的男性（例如，机械操作、运输、建筑等）具有高 超重和肥胖的患病率以及与肥胖相关的合并症的高发病率。 不幸的是，这些人不太可能参与循证减肥干预。提高 在这些方案中，需要采取多学科办法。为了满足这一需求，我 申请这项指导研究科学家发展奖，以获得更多的科学和技术 技能1）定性方法，2）通信科学，3）卫生经济学，并将这些技能应用于 干预措施的制定和评价。我的指导团队包括心理学家， 行为干预发展（Appelhans和Powell博士），男性健康交流和 定性方法专家（巴利亚博士）和卫生经济学家（沃尔顿博士）。沿着我的指导 在团队中，我制定了一个严格的培训计划，这将使我能够同时填补我的培训空白 同时开展有影响力的工作，重点关注研究不足的人群。我将研究如何发展 鼓励参与减肥计划和适应行为减肥的招聘信息 在蓝领行业工作的男性中使用的战略。本项目的目标1是确定如何 * 调整征聘信息和干预内容，使男子最大限度地接触和参与 减肥计划我会对目标人物进行半结构化访谈和焦点小组访谈 然后进行在线封闭式问卷调查。该调查将包括一个离散选择实验 它提供数据来开发参与者对干预和信息的相对偏好模型， 件.第二个目的是测试使用精炼信息和干预成分的可行性 在一个随机试验中。该项目的结果对于制定适当的方法达到这一高度至关重要。 负担和服务不足的人口，并将产生令人信服的初步数据，我的R01申请。此外，本发明的目的是， 通过完成这个项目，我将有培训，推出我的职业生涯作为一个独立的调查重点 为服务不足的人群制定行为干预措施。