# Reducing Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Black Young Adults

> **NIH NIH R01** · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · 2022 · $404,132

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
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The Smartphone + health coach intervention is designed to reduce weight in Black community college students
who have a body mass index 25. The short-term goal is to decrease weight and increase healthy eating and
physical activity habits. The long-term goal is to develop a personalized intervention system that is culturally
tailored and can be disseminated across the country to other community colleges. The team will use mobile
technology, a powerful tool to promote healthy behaviors in Black community college students. Tailored and
personalized content will be delivered and health and wellness coaches will be provided for tailored text
messaging to participants. Our central hypothesis is that there will be a significant decrease in baseline %
weight loss during intervention delivery (6 months) and that those individuals will be able to successfully
maintain their % weight loss (12 months) when compared to the attention-control condition. The short-term
goals will be met through the following aims:
Aim 1: Test the efficacy of a health coach driven intervention on % weight loss at 6 and 12 months in a
sample of Black community college students with overweight/obesity.
Aim 2: Examine mediating variables of the intervention on % weight loss at 6 and 12 months
Aim 3: Explore potential moderators of % weight loss at 6 and 12 months, including depressive
symptoms, ideal body image, and motivation.
These aims are aligned with the National Institute of Nursing Research’s (NINR) mission to focus on the
improvement of health and the promotion of wellness. The vision of NINR is to eliminate health disparities by
utilizing affordable technologies and new intervention strategies. The Smartphone + health coach intervention
is culturally and individually tailored with a primary goal to eliminate the disparity of overweight/obesity in young
Black adults.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10378043
- **Project number:** 5R01NR018699-03
- **Recipient organization:** OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Janna Stephens
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $404,132
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-05-12 → 2024-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10378043

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10378043, Reducing Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Black Young Adults (5R01NR018699-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10378043. Licensed CC0.

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