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Health Mindset as a Driver of Efficacy of a Diabetes Prevention Program in the Blackfeet Community

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
Interventions
Behavioral: Health Mindset modified diabetes prevention program
Behavioral: Diabetes Prevention Program
Registration Number
NCT04571723
Lead Sponsor
Montana State University
Brief Summary

The overall goal of this project is to understand whether the established Diabetes prevention program works to reduce diabetes risk by shifting mindsets about health.

Detailed Description

The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), a lifestyle intervention which aims to modify health behaviors, has reduced diabetes risk across several American Indian Communities. However, there were significant attrition rates, and non-completers were at the highest risk at baseline. One's mindset about health (i.e. whether it is fixed or malleable) may affect their likelihood of completing the intervention and its efficacy in reducing risk. With an existing CAB, I will develop a culturally congruent adaptation of the DPP, the Mindset-DPP (M-DPP). The M-DPP will include a discussion of mindset in each session and will present material focused on the plasticity of health, including evidence that one's mindset can affect outcomes that relate to risk for diabetes. The investigators will implement the DPP and the MDPP in a sample of 40 Blackfeet community members at risk for diabetes and test whether the M-DPP associates with greater shifts towards a growth health mindsets (i.e. health can be changed by effort) compared to the DPP, and whether the M-DPP associates with greater increases in physical activity levels and greater reductions in waist circumference, and greater retention compared to the standard DPP.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
24
Inclusion Criteria
  • self identified as American Indian
  • identified as high risk for diabetes based on the American Diabetes Association paper and pencil test
  • must reside on the Blackfeet reservation
Exclusion Criteria

-chronic disease diagnosis

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Health Mindset modified Diabetes Prevention ProgramHealth Mindset modified diabetes prevention programThis arm will receive the modified curriculum with the added health mindset information.
Established Diabetes Prevention ProgramDiabetes Prevention ProgramThis arm will receive the established diabetes prevention program curriculum.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Change in Health Mindsetbaseline, 6 weeks after baseline, and immediately after the intervention (11 weeks after baseline)

The Health Mindset Questionnaire will be used to measure the degree to which participants view health as fixed or modifiable. Higher scores on the scale reflect a stronger growth health mindset (i.e. health can be changed) while lower numbers reflect a more fixed health mindset (i.e. health is not modifiable). The range of possible scores is 3-18. Change will be calculated from subtracting the health mindset score will be calculated by subtracting the health mindset score at baseline from subsequent health mindset scores (2 change scores will be calculated: one at 6 weeks after baseline and one at 11 weeks after baseline).

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
waist circumferencebaseline, 6 weeks after baseline, and immediately after the intervention (11 weeks after baseline)

circumference of the waist will be measured

physical activity levelsduring the intervention, up to 11 weeks.

accelerometer derived measure of average physical activity levels

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Blackfeet Community College

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Browning, Montana, United States

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