scholarly journals Co-Created Health Education Intervention (Co-CHIN) among Older African American Women Living with Hypertension

EXPLORE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy D. Wright ◽  
Lenette M. Jones ◽  
Ingrid Richards Adams ◽  
Karen O. Moss ◽  
Carolyn Harmon-Still ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Health Education ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Education Intervention ◽  
American Women ◽  
Older African American Women ◽  
Health Education Intervention

scholarly journals Community Engaged Lifestyle Modification Research: Engaging Diabetic and Prediabetic African American Women in Community-Based Interventions

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Starla Hairston Blanks ◽  
Henrie Treadwell ◽  
Anya Bazzell ◽  
Whitney Graves ◽  
Olivia Osaji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Health Education ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Primary Care Doctor ◽  
Education Intervention ◽  
Community Based ◽  
American Women ◽  
Obesity And Diabetes ◽  
Health Education Intervention

Purpose. The I Am Woman (IAW) Program is a community-based, culturally responsive, and gender-specific nutrition, obesity, and diabetes educational prevention program designed for African American women (AAW). Chronic nutrition-related health conditions such as excess body weight, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, and some forms of cancer are common among many African American women.Methods. IAW engaged AAW at risk for such deleterious health conditions by developing a health education intervention that aimed to support weight loss and management, improve knowledge about healthy lifestyle behavioral choices, and facilitate increased access to comprehensive healthcare. This Community Health Worker- (CHW-) led program enrolled 79 AAW aged 18 and older in a 7-week group health education intervention.Results. Following the intervention, results indicated that participants had greater knowledge about nutrition and health, strategies for prevention and management of obesity and diabetes, increased engagement in exercise and fitness activities, and decreased blood pressure, weight, body, and mass index. Cholesterol levels remained relatively unchanged. Additionally, AAW visited a primary care doctor more frequently and indicated greater interest in addressing their health concerns.Conclusion. This model of prevention appears to be a promising approach for increasing awareness about ways to improve the health and well-being of AAW.

“I Don’t Know and I Don’t Want to Know”: A Qualitative Examination of Older African American Women’s Knowledge and Experiences With HIV

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (7) ◽  
pp. 644-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faye Z. Belgrave ◽  
Sarah J. Javier ◽  
Deborah Butler ◽  
Chelsie Dunn ◽  
Joann Richardson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Black Church ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Hiv Knowledge ◽  
Female Population ◽  
American Women ◽  
Heterosexual Women ◽  
Older African American Women

While older African American women (e.g., aged 50 years and older) comprise only 11% of the female population in the United States, they account for 50% of HIV diagnoses among women in this age group. Unique sociocultural factors, including a lack of HIV knowledge and stigma, contribute to HIV risk among older African American women. The goal of this qualitative study was to obtain a nuanced perspective from older African American women about HIV knowledge and experiences with HIV using the framework of intersectionality theory. Focus groups were conducted with 35 African American women who were 50 years and older, nonpartnered, and heterosexual. Women were asked what they knew about HIV and if they thought older women were at risk for HIV. A thematic analysis using NVivo 11 yielded two central themes and three subthemes: HIV knowledge, including experiential knowledge, superficial knowledge, and no knowledge, and stigma around HIV in the Black church. Implications for developing HIV prevention programs and testing messages are discussed.

scholarly journals HIV Prevention Programming for Older African American Women: The Impact of a Faith-Based and Behavioral Science Partnership on Depressive Symptoms

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-294
Author(s):  
Megan T. Ebor ◽  
Aurora P. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Psychological Wellbeing ◽  
American Women ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Older African American Women ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

Objective: The current study sought to test the effect of an HIV prevention interven­tion on depressive symptoms in a sample of older African American women.Design, Setting and Participants: A pretest-posttest randomized control group design was conducted in a mega-church in Los Angeles with a sample of 62 older African American women, aged ≥50 years, 29 of whom were randomly assigned to the experimental condition and 33 to the comparison/control condition.Measures: A measure of psychological wellbeing (CES-D) was utilized to test the effect of the four-session group interven­tion vs the one-session informational group intervention on change in depressive symp­toms from pretest to posttest. Demographic characteristics included: measures of age in years; relationship and employment statuses (coded 1 for yes, 0 for no); and educational attainment.Results: Participation in the study was as­sociated with a significant improvement in the women’s psychological wellbeing from baseline to time 2; ie, decreased depres­sive symptoms. This change was greater for women in the four-session experimental group than for those in the one-session comparison group, due in part to a margin­ally significant interaction between time and experimental conditions.Conclusions: This study demonstrates the utility of faith-based/behavioral-scientist partnerships in HIV programming. Findings contribute to the evidence on interventions that might reduce depressive symptoms and HIV risk among older African American women. Ethn Dis. 2020;30(2):287-294; doi:10.18865/ed.30.2.287

scholarly journals Factors associated with disability among middle-aged and older African American women with osteoarthritis

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 510-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janiece L. Walker ◽  
Tracie C. Harrison ◽  
Adama Brown ◽  
Roland J. Thorpe ◽  
Sarah L. Szanton
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
American Women ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Older African American Women

Understanding Physical Activity Among Older African American Women

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 240
Author(s):  
Emerson Sebastiao ◽  
Kelechi Ibe-Lamberts ◽  
Andiara Schwingel ◽  
Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
American Women ◽  
Older African American Women
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