Strong Men, Strong Communities: Cultural Tradition to Improve Native Men’s Health (Strong Men/SMSC)

Status: Current

Grant Start: 05/15/2015

Grant End: 07/31/2023

​Strong Men, Strong Communities: Cultural Tradition to Improve Native Men’s Health (SMSC) informs the design and implementation of culturally informed, community-based lifestyle interventions for diabetes prevention in American Indian men in our partner communities and elsewhere, as well as in men of other minority groups who experience a heavy burden of diabetes.​ The goals of the study are to: refine the diabetes prevention program with feedback from focus groups in three partner communities; compare changes in diabetes risk score (primary outcome) and modifiable diabetes risk factors (secondary outcomes) in the SMSC intervention with the wait-list control group; and to evaluate the ability of the SMSC to retain 80% of the enrolled participants (target n=240).

Partners

  • MedStar Health Research Institute (MHRI)
  • Natives for Community Engagement and Equity
  • Minnesota Indian Health Board

Funding Sponsors

  • Federal - National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Study Type

  • Randomized controlled trial

Study Characteristics

  • Ages 18 plus

Principal Investigator(s)

Team Member(s)

Heath Research Initiatives

  • American Indian and Alaska Native

Focus Areas

  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Health disparities
  • Nutrition