Irene G. Sia, M.D., M.S.

Closed for Enrollment

• Healthy Immigrant Families: Working Together To Move More and To Eat Well Rochester, Minn.

  This project will broadly explore the efficacy of community participation in the design and implementation of an intervention to improve physical activity and nutrition among immigrant and refugee (Hispanic, Somali, Sudanese, Cambodian) families in Rochester, Minnesota

• Stories for Change: Cancer Prevention Rochester, Minn.

  This study is a process evaluation of a digital storytelling (DST) intervention. Because the DST intervention has not yet been developed, it is appropriate to use qualitative methods to assess the process.

  This study will recruit gifted storytellers for a digital storytelling intervention on breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer. A digital storytelling intervention will be developed to improve breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening rates among Hispanic, Spanish speaking individuals. Additionally, to conduct a qualitative assessment of the digital storytelling workshop.

• Stories for Change: Digital Storytelling for Diabetes Self-Management among Hispanic Adults (S4C) Rochester, Minn.

  The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of a digital storytelling intervention derived through a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach on type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) outcomes among Hispanic adults with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) in primary care settings through a randomized clinical trial.