A Church-Based Diet and Physical Activity Intervention for Rural, Lower Mississippi Delta African American Adults: Delta Body and Soul Effectiveness Study, 2010–2011

“…Through the use of a CBPR-based engagement process, a community-based CVD prevention program, FAITH!, was successful in forging an academic-community partnership with African-American churchgoers in a small metropolitan community. We recognize that partnering with the African-American faith community is a well-established strategy that health disparities researchers have successfully adopted to implement health promotion interventions (Campbell et al, 2007; Wilcox et al, 2010) with many adapting previously developed interventions (Dodani and Fields, 2010; Tussing-Humphreys et al, 2013). However, the distinguishing feature of our program relates to its “built from scratch” nature in congregations without an established infrastructure of a health ministry or denominational health promotion directorship (Wilcox et al, 2010).…”