240
Participants
Start Date
October 31, 2014
Primary Completion Date
August 31, 2016
Study Completion Date
January 31, 2018
Walking Intervention
"4-week series of twice-weekly 1-hour group-based case-manager-led interactive sessions.~The intervention will provide the knowledge necessary to improve stroke risk factors. Case manager group leaders will teach that seeing a healthcare provider regularly and monitoring blood pressure prevents strokes; all participants will be provided with the National Institute on Aging booklet, How to Talk to your Doctor and the contact information for their healthcare provider.~Participants will be given a pedometer and be trained to use it to measure steps, with the goal of reaching 10,000 steps each day.~The intervention will utilize attribution retraining to teach seniors that stroke risk factors including sedentary lifestyle should not be attributed to old age."
Chinatown Service Center, Los Angeles
St. Barnabas Senior Services, Los Angeles
Watts Labor Community Action Committee, Watts
Mexican American Opportunity Foundation, Montebello
University of California, Los Angeles
OTHER