Studies Archive
Project Summaries
Easily navigate our completed studies by browsing the project names and summaries below.
Health4Kids: Pediatric Obesity Management Intervention Trial for Hispanic Families
Entre Familia: Promoting HPV Vaccination Among Hispanic Adolescents and Young Adults Using Health Care System-Based Interventions and Community Outreach
Health4Kids
This program uses family counseling, text messages, and newsletters to encourage healthier eating and increased physical activity in Latino children with overweight or obesity in San Antonio, Texas.
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Entre Familia
Evidenced-based service project in Hidalgo County that aims to increase HPV vaccination among Latino adolescents and young adults in order to reduce cervical cancer incidence and mortality.
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Physical Activity Partnership for Girls
This program is a partnership between the IHPR and Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas. It encourages girls to engage in physical activity through planned activities, education, social media, and more.
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Y Living
This program uses a community-based, family-focused approach to promote physical activity, a balanced diet and increased awareness of a healthy lifestyle on cancer risk reduction.
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ENLACE: A Promotora-Led Physical Activity Intervention Trial for Latinas in Texas
A promotora-led, community-based intervention that considers the role of individual attitudes and skills, socio-cultural factors, and environmental influences on physical activity among Latinas in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas.
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Determinants of HPV vaccination
The research sought to identify determinants of mothers' HPV vaccine intentions, initiation and completion, understand provider perspectives on recommending the vaccine, and design a culturally relevant and theoretically grounded HPV intervention.
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NEST: Obesity prevention
The purpose of the study is to develop, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive family-based intervention targeting Hispanic children and their parent(s) in a rural pediatric clinic. This goal is to reduce childhood overweight and obesity.
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¡Salud, Salud!
This study develops and tests a 12-week bilingual (English and Spanish) type 2 diabetes self-management program that includes the whole family.
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Salud San Antonio!
Promotoras will conduct small group sessions to educate Latinos on risk factors, screening tests, and early detection. Surveys will measure Latinos’ knowledge at the point of identification during outreach and after each small group session.
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Refugee Children & Detention
This project seeks to develop methods for studying the psychosocial wellbeing of children who were held with their mothers in detention centers for weeks and months during critical childhood development
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(HHER) Lifestyle
The goal of this study is to advance our understanding of how to effectively promote CVD risk reduction in health care settings among financially disadvantaged Black women ages 35 years and older. The proposed randomized clinical trial builds on recently completed formative and feasibility studies.
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NIDA Parent Training
Implementing prevention interventions in faith-based organizations constitutes a key alternative to address service barriers.
NIDA Parent Training
Healthy Rural Texas
A family-based program designed to counter the prevalence of obesity and obesity-related diseases in rural Latino populations in South Texas.
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Mexican Consulate General Study
The goal of this program is to build a sustainable mental health model and intervention for Latinx emerging adults of immigrant families.
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¡Míranos!
A participatory project, tailored to Latino preschool children and their parents, to promote the healthy development of predominantly Latino children in Head Start in San Antonio.
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PODER
Three studies to examine health, obesity, and health behaviors among children and adolescents with IDD and their maternal caregivers. The study develops an intervention for Latino children to promote healthy lifestyles.
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TX-ADDM
A project that partners with educational and health sites in Texas to better understand the prevalence of autism and other developmental disabilities among 4 and 8 year old children.
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