Understanding and Addressing Risks of Low Socioeconomic Status and Diabetes for Heart Failure (UNLOAD-Heart Failure)
Johns Hopkins University
Summary
This study aims to determine whether a 6-month multilevel intervention involving problem-solving training, exercise training and support from community health workers is more effective in improving outcomes for individuals with low socioeconomic status, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and early cardiac dysfunction than receiving education and access to a community exercise facility.
Description
This randomized controlled trial employs a 2:1 allocation ratio. The study aims to include 402 individuals from Baltimore City and Hagerstown, Maryland, characterized by low neighborhood and individual socioeconomic status, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and evidence of subclinical heart dysfunction, without a prior clinical diagnosis of heart failure. The 6-month multi-level intervention consists of three key components: 1. Problem Solving - Diabetes Self-Management Training (DECIDE): Participants will engage in a biweekly evidence-based behavioral change program known as DECIDE. This program foc…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 30–70 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: * Adults from Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) who live in Baltimore City and adults from Johns Hopkins Community Physicians (JHCP) Hagerstown or Family Healthcare of Hagerstown who live in Washington County * Low socioeconomic status (SES) by high Area Deprivation Index (ADI) \[\>75th percentile for the state of Maryland\] plus low income) * Type 2 diabetes * Obesity (BMI≥30 kg/m\^2) Exclusion Criteria: * Age \< 30 or \>70 years * Prevalent heart failure * Uncontrolled glycemia (blood glucose \<60 mg/d or ≥ 300 mg/dl or most recent hemoglobin A1c ≥11%) * Uncontrolled blood…
Interventions
- BehavioralCommunity Champions
The UNLOAD-Heart Failure Program intervention includes problem solving training, community health worker support, and exercise support from health coaches at YMCAs.
- BehavioralHomegrown Heroes
Monthly newsletters/videos on diabetes self-management, healthy lifestyle and heart failure prevention will be provided, as well as a membership to the local YMCA.
Locations (2)
- Johns Hopkins Center for Health EquityBaltimore, Maryland
- Johns Hopkins University Comstock CenterHagerstown, Maryland