# Wichozani-A Healthy Lifestyle for Rural American Indian Youth through Cultural and Physical Activities: A Community-Based Participatory Research Study

> **NIH NIH P20** · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA · 2020 · $121,272

## Abstract

Project Summary
Community-based participatory research builds partnerships between communities and
researchers to engage in research design, decision making, data collection, and dissemination
of health promotion initiatives. This community-based participatory research project proposal,
submitted through an NIGMS administrative supplemental funding opportunity, is a
pat1nership with collaboration. Specifically, beginning the fall of 2020, INBRE-supported
researchers within the South Dakota Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (SD BRIN) and
researchers in the Nebraska IDeA-CTR will collaborate with a rural American Indian community.
The researchers will assess health disparities, including obesity and Type II diabetes within
youth from ages 5 to 18, and will both implement and evaluate cultural and physical activity
interventions. This youth physical activity program is an attempt to prevent future health
complications and achieve health equity, or as the American Indian culture would rather say:
achieve a culture of equality, harmony, and whichozani-a healthy lifestyle. Through this
collaboration, training in the experimental collection, data analysis, and interpretation of
physical activity data will be provided from Dr. Knarr's research group to the undergraduate SD
BRIN fellows. Impo11antly, the SD BRIN fellows will receive hands-on experience in the
collection of physical activity data through successful execution of this project, as SD BRIN
students will be responsible for the experimental setup and retrieval of activity- monitoring
devices. This training is highly complementary to the research focus of Dr. Smith and her team,
whose expertise centers on the implementation of activity and health promotion programs.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10153408
- **Project number:** 3P20GM103443-19S1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA
- **Principal Investigator:** BARBARA EASON GOODMAN
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $121,272
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2001-09-24 → 2025-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10153408

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10153408, Wichozani-A Healthy Lifestyle for Rural American Indian Youth through Cultural and Physical Activities: A Community-Based Participatory Research Study (3P20GM103443-19S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10153408. Licensed CC0.

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