The Madrina Network Web Portal

描述(申请人提供)：Madrina Network“门户网站：为拉丁裔提供的健康体重-健康生活方式干预。这一快速通道应用程序解决了一个严重的健康差距--美国拉丁裔中的肥胖危机，以及对及时、文化和语言上适当的减肥干预的迫切需要。这一创新的研究拨款直接响应了NCI的目标，即“通过提高公众意识来改善健康传播，克服媒体有效沟通的障碍，扩大健康传播研究”，以及解决“不充分的协作基础设施以实现积极的饮食变化”，这是NCI指出需要在不同文化背景的人群中解决的一个具体障碍。这种创新的数字健康的灵感 拉丁裔体重健康的产品和方法来自于现有减肥干预措施显然未能满足拉丁裔的需求，缺乏文化和语言上适当的问题解决方案，拉丁裔使用互联网的迅速增加，有记录的对拉丁裔在线搜索健康信息的适当内容的需求，以拉丁裔为中心的传统社交网络的好处，以及研究 这证明了同伴支持在实现健康相关行为改变方面的有效性。第一阶段的具体目标是通过在阿尔伯克基与拉丁裔进行的焦点小组访谈，评估“La Madrina Network”门户网站和以游戏为基础的课程的可行性、实用性、可接受性、受众参与度和传授知识的能力。在第二阶段，我们将应用第一阶段的研究结果，全面开发[Madrina Network]干预措施，并进行随机试验。第二阶段研究的目的是评估在参加了基于Web的Madrina Network的Web门户网站和基于游戏的课程六个月后，拉丁裔[18岁以上，体重指数在28-32之间，使用互联网查找健康信息]的实验组与对照组相比，表现出与减肥有关的知识增加、态度改变和行为改变。鉴于问题的紧迫性和这种干预的明显需要，快速跟踪SBIR是最合适和最及时的途径。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Madrina Network" Web Portal: A Healthy Weight - Healthy Lifestyle Intervention for Latinas. This Fast Track application addresses a serious health disparity - the crisis of obesity among Latinas in the United States and the dire need of a timely and culturally and linguistically appropriate weight loss intervention. This innovative research grant is in direct response to NCI's goals to "improve health communications by raising public awareness, overcome barriers of effective communication in the media and expand health communications research," as well as addressing "inadequate collaborative infrastructures to actuate positive dietary changes" a specific barrier that NCI stated needed to be addressed in culturally diverse populations. The inspiration for this innovative digital health product and approach to weight health among Latinas comes from the apparent failure of existing weight loss interventions to address the needs of Latinas, the lack of culturally and linguistically appropriate solutions to the problem, the rapid increase of Latina use of the Internet, the documented need for appropriate content for Latinas searching for health information on- line, the benefits of traditional Latina-centered social networks, and the research that demonstrates the effectiveness of peer support to achieve health-related behavior changes. The Specific Aims for Phase I are to evaluate, via focus group interviews conducted with Latinas in Albuquerque, the feasibility, use-ability, acceptability, audience engagement, and knowledge imparting capabilities of "La Madrina Network" Web Portal and Game-Based Curriculum. In Phase II, we will apply Phase I findings and fully develop the [Madrina Network] intervention and conduct a randomized trial. The purpose of the Phase II study is to assess, if after six months of participation in Web- based Madrina Network" Web Portal and Game-Based Curriculum, the experimental group of Latinas [over the age of 18, with a BMI of 28-32, who use the internet to find health information] demonstrates increased knowledge, change in attitude and change in behaviors related to weight loss, as compared to the control group. Given the urgency of the problem and the obvious need for this kind of intervention, a Fast Track SBIR is the most appropriate and timely route to take.