A culturally sensitive LifeStyle showed promising Latinas in the United States live, to encourage them to eat better and exercise more thro...
A culturally sensitive LifeStyle showed promising Latinas in the United States live, to encourage them to eat better and exercise more through a healthy lifestyle with the lives of saints and religious figures in the foreground connects, new studies.
Several recent work on the project, add in the Journal of Aging and Health published a new study, including a growing body of research, can show the health measures successfully promote lifestyle changes to be among the Latino population increase in the nation, if the contents of the culture are sensitive, the integration of spiritual and family values that are the lives of these women is essential.
Professor of health Andiara fescue kinesiology and community at the University of Illinois has developed a program called Action mothers (Abuelas in action). Aimed at Latino 50-year-old grandmother in Action promotes physical activity, diet and stress management, based demonstrate the principles of the various behavior modification programs on documents.
Promotoras, community leaders familiar with local customs and traditions, the management of the program. 18 hours training received to provide religious programs and health education available, including group discussions and practical activities in six monthly workshops. In each workshop joined the Catholic teachings in a particular health behavior change with the life of a prominent Catholic saint or religious figure illustrates this concept.
Fescue and his research team developed religious programs in cooperation with the leaders of the local community of the Chicago area, where the engagement took place.
Most women, the grandmothers of action have overweight problems and weight-related health, such as heart disease, arthritis and diabetes have been completed. More than 82 percent of the participants were overweight or obese, 85 percent had at least one chronic disease, and they all had depressive symptoms, carried out by assessing the health of the researchers.
Encouraged to find creative ways to be more active forms were given pedometers to participants and was told to aspire one day to walk 10,000 steps. The proportion of women who at least 150 minutes of moderate or vigorous physical activity per week have increased significantly during the program. Finally, almost 87 percent of women were physically active considered, according to an article published in the Journal of Aging and Health. U. of I. researchers Drs Patricia Galvez, Deborah Emerson Sebastião Linares and were co-authors of fescue in this study.
Eating assessments of the women who completed the program showed to reduce a significant improvement in their diet through fruits, vegetables and whole grains increasing consumption during their consumption of fried food.
Participants of depressive symptoms was also significantly reduced, and many women said they had developed on the life a more positive view, the researchers found.
The use of life religious personalities to explain the concepts helped participants to understand information about health and has created a total experience of physical and mental self-improvement, the feelings of self increases efficiency and fescue Galvez reported in a recent article in the Journal of Religion and Health.
"Putting religious content created in the middle of the program a stronger relationship between the Latin and the program, which contributes to higher levels of engagement and motivation", fescue said. "The religious content women motivated to make healthier choices and to think about their lifestyle."
Advocates offer support and motivation of the current participants in the first six months of the program. The experience was positive for sponsors and participants who reported that the program strengthened existing relationships and has a new shape.
An invitation to local community leaders has increased the probability to participate, the women come in action mothers, indicating the degree of influence that prominent people have on the health of others in their communities, the researchers wrote.
"The promotion of health on the basis of the Church has proven to be the key to reaching Latinos, a vulnerable population that is often difficult for public health programs to reach. Many health insurance is missing and may have more health programs need", fescue said.
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
