Family and Friends can Help Manage or Prevent Diabetes in Hispanic Communities

“Approaches being tested focus on how families and friends can help people start or keep doing things that will help prevent diabetes. The current research is evaluating family involvement, walking clubs and other things that foster physical activity, and teaching people to be health coaches.

“The studies being done by our Prevention Research Centers involving Hispanic communities in Arizona, San Diego, and Chicago are looking for ways that people can help family members and friends stay healthy,” said Janet Collins, Ph.D., director of CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. “If we hope to significantly reduce the number of people suffering from diabetes and obesity, we need family members and others to get involved. The research being done here is helping to identify the best and most effective ways that people can help others become and stay healthy.””

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