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SynthesisPreventing chronic disease2013

Interventions for improving nutrition and physical activity behaviors in adult African American populations: a systematic review, January 2000 through December 2011.

Jennifer Lemacks, Brittny A Wells, Jasminka Z Ilich, Penny A Ralston

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Synthesis in Preventing chronic disease, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33citing papers in PubMed
8.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Mobile App-Based Small-Group Physical Activity Intervention for Young African American Women: a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2019
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  16. Texting Older Sisters to Step: The TOSS Study.Western journal of nursing research · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jennifer LemacksUniversity of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406, USA. Jennifer.lemacks@usm.edu
Brittny A Wells
Jasminka Z Ilich
Penny A Ralston
University of Southern Mississippi · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThe incidence of preventable chronic diseases is disproportionally high among African Americans and could be reduced through diet and physical activity interventions. Our objective was to systematically review the literature on clinical outcomes of diet and physical activity interventions conducted among adult African American populations in the United States.

methodsWe used the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta Analysis construct in our review. We searched Medline (PubMed and Ovid), Cochrane, and DARE databases and restricted our search to articles published in English from January 2000 through December 2011. We included studies of educational interventions with clinically relevant outcomes and excluded studies that dealt with nonadult populations or populations with pre-existing catabolic or other complicated disorders, that did not focus on African Americans, that provided no quantitative baseline or follow-up data, or that included no diet or physical activity education or intervention. We report retention and attendance rates, study setting, program sustainability, behavior theory, and education components.

resultsNineteen studies were eligible for closer analysis. These studies described interventions for improving diet or physical activity as indicators of health promotion and disease prevention and that reported significant improvement in clinical outcomes.

conclusionOur review suggests that nutrition and physical activity educational interventions can be successful in improving clinically relevant outcomes among African Americans in the United States. Further research is needed to study the cost and sustainability of lifestyle interventions. Further studies should also include serum biochemical parameters to substantiate more specifically the effect of interventions on preventing chronic disease and reducing its incidence and prevalence.

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Black or African AmericanMotor ActivityNutritional StatusAdultChronic DiseaseFemaleHealth BehaviorHealth EducationHealth PromotionHumansMaleMiddle AgedUnited States

Identifiers

PMID23786910
PMCPMC3690829
OpenAlexW2013804312

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