Family Health Histories: Creating a Culturally Tailored Tool to Reduce Health Disparities in the Black Community
Family Health Histories: Creating a Culturally Tailored Tool to Reduce Health Disparities in the African American Community
Michigan State University
100 participants
Mar 30, 2025
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
The understanding, utilization and uptake of Family Health History is essential to the prevention of health disparities in the African American community. Creating a culturally tailored Family Health History tool, co-developed by members of the African American community will inform, educate and empower African Americans about health issues related to their family genealogy. Applying the knowledge gained via Family Health Histories to increase preventative behaviors including screenings thus linking people to needed health services to prevent the onset of disease and illness.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria1
- Self Identify as African American; age 18 and older, English speaking
Exclusion Criteria1
- Non English speaking, non African American, younger than 18 years old
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Interventions
The AAFHHEP arm is an intervention to increase utilization of FHH and increase preventative screening. This tool will be culturally tailored by African Americans for African Americans.
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NCT05358964