A pilot church-based weight loss program for African-American adults using church members as health educators: a comparison of individual and group intervention.

Kennedy, Betty M; Paeratakul, Sahasporn; Champagne, Catherine M; Ryan, Donna H; Harsha, David W; McGee, Bernestine; Johnson, Glenda; Deyhim, Farzad; Forsythe, William; Bogle, Margaret L

A pilot church-based weight loss program for African-American adults using church members as health educators: a comparison of individual and group intervention.

Date

2005

Authors

Kennedy, Betty M

Paeratakul, Sahasporn

Champagne, Catherine M

Citation

Kennedy, Betty M and Paeratakul, Sahasporn and Champagne, Catherine M and Ryan, Donna H and Harsha, David W and McGee, Bernestine and Johnson, Glenda and Deyhim, Farzad and Forsythe, William and Bogle, Margaret L (2005) A pilot church-based weight loss program for African-American adults using church members as health educators: a comparison of individual and group intervention. Ethnicity & disease, 15 (3). pp. 373-378.

DRUM DOI

https://doi.org/10.13016/d7of-a5h8

Abstract

A church setting may provide an effective delivery mechanism for a health and nutrition program. Church members may be trained to conduct a weight control program. Both interventions (individual and group) were effective in inducing weight loss.