All Projects
Health4Kids (H4K) Intervention Trial for Families
The IHPR has launched a five-year, $2.9 million obesity management program that uses family counseling, text messages and newsletters to control weight and spark healthier eating and physical activity habits in obese/overweight kids.
Enlace: A Promotora-Led Physical Activity Study in Texas
The IHPR is designing, implementing and evaluating a promotora-led physical activity intervention that takes a comprehensive, multi-level, community-based approach to promoting moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in South Texas.
Quitxt: Bilingual Quit-Smoking Text Messaging Service
Quitxt is a free service on your phone with text messages and online support in English or Spanish to help South Texans quit smoking for good.
Rx for Better Breast Health
Rx for Better Breast Health is a study to teach breast cancer survivors how certain foods may reduce the risk of cancer recurrence.
Survivorship: Improving Mind and Physical Activity (IMPACT)
Improving Mind and Physical ACTivity (IMPACT) tests how different types of exercise—like yoga—best improve cancer survivors’ fitness, quality of life and molecular indicators of future cancer risk.
Breast Cancer: Testing Video-Based Clinical Trial Recruitment
The study hypothesizes that women who receive an interactive, technology-infused communications intervention will increase self-efficacy and informed decision-making to enter breast cancer clinical trials.
Entre Familia: Educating Hispanic Adolescents and their Families on Cervical Cancer and HPV Vaccination
Entre Familia: Educating Hispanic Adolescents and their Families on Cervical Cancer and HPV Vaccination The “Entre Familia” program offers health education about the HPV vaccine and cervical cancer prevention and provides help for people to schedule and remember vaccination appointments for girls and boys ages 11-17 in South Texas.
Enlace: A Partnership to Promote Physical Activity Among Mexican Immigrant Women
Enlace: A Partnership to Promote Physical Activity Among Mexican Immigrant Women This study used a community-based participatory research approach to identify and understand factors that influence physical activity behavior for Mexican immigrant women in South Carolina and Texas.
A Su Salud
Part of a larger study called Programa A Su Salud, this project studied and demonstrated the effectiveness of mass media health messages using culturally relevant role models from the low-income community of Eagle Pass, Texas.