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Messaging, Manhood and Men's Health Behavior

NIDDK logoPrincipal Investigator: Derek M Griffith, PhD 

Co-Investigators:  Tom Elasy, MD; Shelagh A. Mulvaney, PhD; David G. Schlundt, PhD; Ken Resnicow, PhD; Melissa Valerio, PhD, MPH

Contact Information: Phone: 615.936.3610; email: crmh@vanderbilt.edu

Funding:  National Institue of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Funding Period: 5/1/2012-4/30/2015

Mechanism: R21

Location: Nashville, TN

Project Summary

This project aims to develop and test messages that will be used in a future, web-based tailored intervention to increase healthy eating and physical activity in middle-aged and older African American men. A tailored intervention – that is, an intervention customized to the unique preferences, interests and contexts of individual African American men – may be more engaging than an intervention targeted to African American men as a population group in part, because it may be deemed more personally relevant. The main goal of this study is to develop a bank of messages that will be used to tailor health information to individual African American men.

This project is no longer recruiting participants.