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Hombres: Por un cambio: Intervention process and outcome findings
Methods: Twenty male LHAs, known as "Navegantes", from 20 different Latino soccer teams were trained and worked with members of their soccer team-based social networks. Data were collected from 13 members of 20 soccer teams (1 Navegante and 12 teammates per team) at baseline and at immediate post-intervention. Navegantes conducted formal and informal activities with soccer teams for 12 months. Further, each month each Navegante documented his activities on a Spanish-language low literacy Activity Log. Results: Baseline data were collected from 262 Latino male participants; we retained 85% at 12 months. Mean age of participants was 26.9 years and 82% were from Mexico.
About 1,600 activities were conducted by the 20 Navegantes. Mean number of participants per activity was 4.23 (range: 1-40); >50% of all activities were conducted with those outside their soccer team-based social networks. Nearly 11% included women.
At baseline, the condom use rate was 38.8% and at 12-month post-Navegante training, it was 51.3%, a 12% increase (p=.009).
Conclusions: Findings revealed that Latino men are receptive to serving as LHAs and successfully increasing condom use within their social networks. LHAs may be a culturally congruent approach to meeting the health-promotion needs and priorities of other Latino communities.
Diversity and culture
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Public health or related research
Social and behavioral sciences
Learning Objectives:
Identify key components and theoretical underpinnings of a lay health advisor HIV-prevention intervention for Latino men.
Describe the outcomes of the intervention.
Apply preliminary findings to future research.
Keywords: Latino, Interventions
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am PI of multiple NIH and CDC studies particularly focusing on HIV prevention within immigrant Latino communities and sexual minority communities. I have published >100 peer-reviewed papers on CBPR and HIV prevention.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
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