{"id":4985,"date":"2013-04-04T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"<span class=\"txt\"><img class=\"  alignright wp-image-7477\" src=\"http:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/exercise.jpg\" alt=\"promotoras\" width=\"700\" height=\"464\" \/><span class=\"txt\">To improve Latinas\u2019 health, a new five-year,"},"modified":"2016-03-30T21:58:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T21:58:49","slug":"study-uses-promotoras-to-increase-physical-activity-among-latinas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission-old\/study-uses-promotoras-to-increase-physical-activity-among-latinas\/","title":{"rendered":"Study uses promotoras to increase physical activity among Latinas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"txt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  alignright wp-image-7477\" src=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/exercise.jpg\" alt=\"promotoras\" width=\"700\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/exercise.jpg 800w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/exercise-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/exercise-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><span class=\"txt\">To improve Latinas\u2019 health, a new five-year, $3.48 million\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">National Institutes of Health study will use promotoras &#8211; trained community health workers &#8211; to lead culturally appropriate group education and exercise sessions for Latinas in a program called Enlace (a Spanish term that means to &#8220;connect&#8221; or &#8220;join&#8221;) in community centers in South Texas\u2019 Lower Rio Grande Valley. &#8220;The idea behind Enlace is that, through this promotora intervention, Latinas will gain an otherwise-unavailable layer of social support to overcome barriers to activity and make positive behavioral changes &#8211; namely that Latinas engage in 30 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity on five or more days a week,&#8221; said study leader <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.uthscsa.edu\/?pid=profile&amp;id=2BZ0SVDCB\">Deborah Parra-Medina, Ph.D., M.P.H.<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">, professor at the <\/span>Institute for Health Promotion Research<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To improve Latinas\u2019 health, a new five-year, $3.48 million\u00a0National Institutes of Health study will use promotoras &#8211; trained community health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":7477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-2013"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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