Obesity Prevention in Latino Home and Community Environments

Principal Investigator: John P. Elder, PhD, MPH
Co-Investigators:
Donald Slymen, PhD, Guadalupe Ayala, PhD, MPH, Thomas McKenzie, PhD,
Richard Wright, PhD
Project Manager: Nadia Campbell, MPH
Years: 2002 - 2007
Total Funding: $3,770,219
Funding Agency:
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health

The specific primary research aim of Aventuras Para Niños is to evaluate the effectiveness of micro environmental and macro environmental interventions to prevent the onset of overweight and obesity in Latino primary school-aged children.

The micro environmental intervention will target structural aspects of the home and household rule setting delivered via community health workers (promotoras) and tailored to the needs of the family. The macro environmental intervention will employ promotoras to work in the environment (e.g., apartment complex, schools, and neighborhoods) to increase awareness and promote environmental change. The micro- and macro-environmental interventions, and their interaction, will be compared with a no-treatment control condition.

Aventuras promotion for a healthy diet.

(posted Feb. 2, 2006)