Implementation costs of a community health worker delivered weight loss intervention in black churches serving underserved communities.

ABSTRACT: Black adults bear a disproportionate burden of the obesity epidemic but are underrepresented in weight loss research and lose less weight than their white counterparts in weight loss interventions. Comprehensive behavioral weight loss interventions cause weight loss, but their high cost have stymied their implementation in black and other underserved communities. Recent translations of evidence-based weight loss interventions for black communities have been designed to increase intervention reach. However, the costs of implementing such interventions have seldom been reported in the context of a randomized controlled trial. Thus, the costs of implementing a community-health worker delivered Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) adaptated for rural black adults of faith (The WORD) are reported.

SUBMITTER: Yeary KHK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7155228 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature