The Madrina Network Web Portal

描述（由申请人提供）：Madrina网络”门户网站：健康的体重-健康的生活方式干预拉丁美洲人。这个快速通道应用程序解决了一个严重的健康差距-在美国拉丁美洲人的肥胖危机和迫切需要一个及时的和文化和语言上适当的减肥干预。这项创新的研究补助金是直接响应NCI的目标，即“通过提高公众意识来改善健康传播，克服媒体有效传播的障碍，扩大健康传播研究”，以及解决“合作基础设施不足，以推动积极的饮食变化”，NCI表示需要在文化多样的人群中解决这一具体障碍。 这种创新数字健康的灵感 产品和方法来解决拉丁美洲人的体重健康来自现有的减肥干预措施，以解决拉丁美洲人的需求，缺乏文化和语言上适当的解决方案的问题，迅速增加的拉丁美洲人使用互联网，记录需要适当的内容，为拉丁美洲人搜索在线健康信息，传统的拉丁美洲为中心的社交网络的好处，和研究 这证明了同伴支持对实现健康相关行为改变的有效性。第一阶段的具体目标是通过对阿尔伯克基的拉丁裔进行焦点小组访谈，评估“La Madrina Network”门户网站和基于游戏的课程的可行性、可用性、可接受性、受众参与度和知识传授能力。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，如果在参与基于网络的Madrina Network”门户网站和基于游戏的课程六个月后，实验组的拉丁人[18岁以上，BMI为28-32，使用互联网查找健康信息]表现出与减肥相关的知识增加，态度改变和行为改变，与对照组相比。鉴于问题的紧迫性和这种干预的明显需要，快速通道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.