Mano y Coraz’on Binational Conference Of Multicultural Health Care Solutions

Angie Millan, RN, MSN, FAAN Principal Investigator September 27, 2013

22% of all US youth & represent largest, youngest, and fastest-growing minority group

38.2% ages 2-19 years are overweight or obese

Obesity carried into adulthood is associated with DM, HTN, asthma, sleep apnea and some types of cancer

Two IOM reports on preventing childhood obesity: Preventing childhood obesity: Health in the balance & Progress in preventing childhood obesity: How do we measure up?

Recognize that prevention of childhood obesity is a national priority

The need to understand the complex interactions across social, environmental, and policy contexts that have created an adverse environment for maintaining a healthy weight

Muevete (Move) USATM was designed/executed by NAHN as a pilot in 2011 and fully launched in 2012

To raise awareness of childhood obesity issue

Encourage Hispanic youth to make and more importantly sustain healthy lifestyle changes

In 2012 NAHN deployed Muevete (Move) USATM in 15 locations.

Unique this year is including entire families in the program.

Los Angeles

San Francisco Bridgeport

Chicago

Atlanta

Corpus Christi

New York

Brownsville

D.C.

New Jersey

El Paso

Valle de Sol

Orange CountyDenver

San Diego

MyPlate

Food Labels

Healthy Snacks

Physical Activity and Exercise

Empowering Kids to make Healthy Choices

Learning Objectives

Recommended Readings

Suggested classroom activities

Pre and Post Quiz

Demographic information

Chapters target families in location of their choice

Recommend one hour sessions, can be done all in one day

Incentives suggested to engage entire family

Work with community partners

Chapters want to be involved in issue of childhood obesity

Chapters do not want to exclude anyone

Chapters have developed very unique and important partnerships with schools, CBO’s, faith-based organizations, etc.

Some chapters have found transportation to be an issue

Creative incentives are necessary

Involve nursing students!!

Keep messages short and simple

Chapter Youth Adults Total

Atlanta, GA 10 10

Bridgeport, CT 15 12 27

Brownsville, TX 7 3 10

Chicago, IL 105 105

Corpus Christi, TX 40 14 54

Colorado 12 12

El Paso, TX 10 7 17

Los Angeles, CA 148 148

New Jersey 17 12 29

New York 56 56

Orange County, CA 28 12 40

San Diego, CA 27 13 40

San Francisco, CA 78 78

Valle de Sol, AZ 27 27

Washington, DC 60 12 72

TOTAL 640 (88%)

85(12%)

725

Hispanics 694 (96%)

White 6 (.8%)

African American 10 (1.3%)

Other 15 (2%)

Total 725

Total of 174 Nurse instructors trained from fifteen chapters

Did not have a robust number of adults/caregivers/guardians attending the lessons, this group made significant gains in knowledge about healthy lifestyles, when comparing the pre and post-tests results (69% pre-test vs. 76% post-test).

Youth pre-test and post-test scores were lower, but also showed significant improvement (35% pre-test vs. 57% post-test).

1.- Challenging to include Parent/Caregivers guardian of all youths.

2.- Uneven participation in the pre and post-test and the limited literacy levels of participants.

3.- Not all chapters followed the same method when collecting the data.

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