Publications by authors named "Andrea Plaut"
Objective: To pilot test and assess the feasibility of a culturally grounded approach to adolescent overweight and diabetes prevention.
Study Design: Reach-Out, a family-based nutrition and exercise program for overweight African American youth aged 9 to 12 years and their families, is led by lay health leaders and conducted in a community setting on Chicago's south side (Illinois). Age-appropriate interactive sessions focus on skills building, problem solving, and setting goals during 14 weekly sessions, with monthly meetings thereafter.
Objective: To assess weight-related beliefs and concerns of overweight urban, African-American children, their parents, and community leaders before developing a family-based intervention to reduce childhood overweight and diabetes risk.
Design: We conducted 13 focus groups with overweight children and their parents and eight semistructured interviews with community leaders.
Participants And Setting: Focus group participants (N = 67) from Chicago's South Side were recruited through flyers in community sites.
Objective: Translating lessons from clinical trials on the prevention or delay of type 2 diabetes to populations in nonstudy settings remains a challenge. The purpose of this paper is to review, from the perspective of practicing clinicians, available evidence on lifestyle interventions or medication to prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes.
Design: A MEDLINE search identified 4 major diabetes prevention trials using lifestyle changes and 3 using prophylactic medications.
Purpose: This article proposes a model grounded in behavioral theory and empirical evidence for use when developing a program to prevent type 2 diabetes in high-risk minority youth.
Methods: The model is based on key concepts of 4 behavioral theories: the Health Belief Model, Social Learning Theory, the Theory of Planned Behavior, and the Ecological Model. Determinants of behavior to target for change are selected based on their theoretical link to behavior change, their success in changing behavior in past programs, and through thorough formative research in the target community.