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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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Gail Harrison, PhD, Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, RN, MN, PhD, Loan Pham-Kim, MS, RD, Tu-Uyen Nguyen, PhD, and Henry Lee, MPH. Department of Community Health Sciences, UCLA, School of Public Health, Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90095, (310) 365-2890, loanpham@ucla.edu
Research suggests a growing trend of weight gain among the youth in this population. To reverse this trend, a collaborative pilot study, part of the Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research and Training (AANCART) and the California State Department of Health Division of Nutrition, conducted formative research to inform the design of a community-wide campaign to promote energy balance through increased physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption among low income Hmong parents and their children (5-14 years of age).
This formative research extends similar research conducted with Chinese and Vietnamese communities in Northern and Southern California to the Hmong communities in Central and Northern California. The study conducted: 1) eight focus groups with parents of children 5-14 years of age and with children 11-14 years of age; 2) key informant interviews with professionals and leaders in the Hmong community; and 3) interviews with professionals who have conducted physical activity and nutrition activities in these communities. Focus group and key informant interviews were designed to elicit culturally relevant information about how best to adapt evidence-based community-wide campaign intervention approaches for the Hmong population. Community partners assisted in the identification and adaptation of these evidence-based energy balance community-wide intervention approaches, and collaborated on the delivery of the culturally adapted program.
We will present salient elements, identified from this research, for adapting and disseminating an effective “5 A Day” nutrition and physical activity statewide campaign focusing on low income Hmong populations in California.
Learning Objectives:
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA