Messaging, Manhood and Men's Health Behavior
Principal 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.