Latino grandparent opportunity to influence family health behaviors: The Healthy Us Grandparent Study (HUGS).

Introduction: Latino children are the fastest growing population of obese children in the United States, the most obese group of children by race and a significant disparity in childhood obesity. Extended family, often grandparents, are traditionally involved in childcare in Latino family structure, yet their influence on family health behaviors is unclear. This study explored grandparent involvement in the care of Latino children in South Texas and their possible influence on child body mass index (BMI) and family health behaviors to determine if they present an opportunity to improve child obesity treatment plans.

A neighborhood-centered clinical project: improving diabetes and cardiovascular outcomes in Hispanic women.

Neighborhood-centered disease prevention programs have become a growing means of introducing baccalaureate nursing students to health care systems. This article reports diabetes and cardiovascular clinical outcomes and health behavior changes made following a 2-year baccalaureate community/public health clinical project and partnership with an urban Hispanic neighborhood. This pilot study used a pretest-posttest design without comparators.