Co-Designing a Program to Lower Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Midlife Black Women

Holly J. Jones, Tamilyn Bakas, Sheila Nared, Jacqueline Humphries, Julie Wijesooriya and Melinda Butsch Kovacic
Additional contact information
Holly J. Jones: College of Nursing, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA
Tamilyn Bakas: College of Nursing, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA
Sheila Nared: West End Community Research Advisory Board, Cincinnati, OH 45214, USA
Jacqueline Humphries: West End Community Research Advisory Board, Cincinnati, OH 45214, USA
Julie Wijesooriya: Seven Hills Neighborhood Houses, Cincinnati, OH 45214, USA
Melinda Butsch Kovacic: West End Community Research Advisory Board, Cincinnati, OH 45214, USA

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 3, 1-13

Abstract: Midlife Black women suffer disproportionately from heart disease and stroke in comparison to White women of similar age and demographic. Risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and stroke is largely considered to be modifiable yet CVD prevention and awareness campaigns have been less effective among Black women. Decreased awareness of personal CVD risk is associated with delays in the presentation of women to the emergency room or health care providers for symptoms of myocardial infarction. The Midlife Black Women’s Stress and Wellness (B-SWELL) program was designed to increase awareness about CVD risk factors, stress, and healthy lifestyle behaviors among midlife Black women. In partnership with an existing Community Research Advisory Board (C-RAB), materials were developed and culturally adapted for the B-SWELL program. Following successful development of the B-SWELL materials, a trial of the B-SWELL program was conducted with a sample of midlife Black women recruited from the community. The program was co-facilitated by members of the C-RAB. We outline the strategies used to successfully co-create and trial the B-SWELL program materials and reflect on the strengths and challenges associated with the development of a culturally tailored heart disease prevention program using community participatory methods.

Keywords: community-based participatory research; intervention studies; cardiovascular diseases; heart disease risk factors; African American; women’s health services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/3/1356/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/3/1356/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:3:p:1356-:d:734180

Access Statistics for this article

IJERPH is currently edited by Ms. Jenna Liu

More articles in IJERPH from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().