Inspire HER: Inspiring the Heart and Emotions for Radical Health

Conditions studied

Cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic Syndrome, Cardiovascular Diseases, Hypertension, Diabetes, Hyperlipidemia, Kidney Disease, Obesity, Smoking

About this study

Poor heart health puts Black women at risk for a shorter life with more illness than people of any other non-indigenous racial group. We will refine and conduct a randomized, wait-list controlled trial of Inspire HER (a heart health lifestyle intervention for Black women that provides health education, physical activity, and social resources). We will also compare Inspire HER and Black Impact (a heart health intervention for Black men) data to study how women and men respond differently to stress. This trial aligns with American Heart Association's pledge to address heart health equity through new interventions that consider the person and the circumstances with which they live.

Interventions

• Behavioral: Inspire HER Intervention — The Black Impact intervention is an academic-community-government partnership adapted from the Diabetes Prevention Program and American Heart Association Check, Change, Control programs based on stakeholder feedback and to afford incorporation of additional evidence-based strategies for influencing target outcomes. The intervention is a 24-week community-based lifestyle intervention to improve cardiovascular health among Black men. Each participant will be assigned to a group with \>5 participants based on participant proximity to a central community meeting location. Each team will be guided weekly by a health coach who delivers content and coaching around the lifestyle intervention modeled on the diabetes prevention program and check, change, control blood pressure program, a community health worker who helps to address social needs and connects participants to primary care services, and a trainer who leads physical activity. Teams meet for 90 minutes per week.

Primary outcomes

• Feasibility (Preliminary Effect on PREVENT Score) (24 weeks)
• Feasibility (Demand or Use of Intervention) (24 weeks)
• Feasibility (Acceptability or Participant Reaction to Intervention) (24 weeks)
• Feasibility (Implementation or Intervention FIdelity) (24 weeks)
• Feasibility (Practicality or Efficiency of Resource Allocation) (24 weeks)