Cost-effectiveness of a faith-based lifestyle intervention for diabetes prevention among African Americans: A within-trial analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

We assessed costs and cost-effectiveness of implementing Fit Body and Soul (FBAS), a church-based 18-session lifestyle education intervention for African Americans.

Methods

We calculated incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICER) using data from a cluster randomized controlled trial comparing FBAS with health education (HE) among 604 overweight participants in 20 churches. The ICER was the adjusted difference in costs to deliver FBAS versus HE over the difference in weight change (kilograms [kg]) at one-year follow-up. Costs included those incurred for participant identification and program implementation. We fitted linear mixed-effects regression models, accounting for clustering of participants within churches and for age, sex, and educational attainment. We repeate

SUBMITTER: Rhodes EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6295256 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature