This systematic review assesses the impact of peer education/counselling on nutrition and health outcomes in Latinos and identifies needs for future research.
The systematic literature search consisted of
- Searches of Internet databases
- Perform a reverse search of the reference list of articles of interest
- A manual review of the archives of the Latin American Centre for Eliminating Health Disparities.
- Search Journal of Nutrition Education and Behaviour.
- Direct contact with researchers in the field.
The authors reviewed 22 articles obtained from experimental or quasi-experimental studies.
Outcome measures:
Type 2 diabetes behavioural and metabolic outcomes, breastfeeding, nutritional knowledge, attitudes and behaviours.
RESULTS:
Peer nutrition education positively impacts not only overall nutritional knowledge and behaviour in Latinos, but also diabetes self-management and breastfeeding outcomes.
CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS:
Randomized longitudinal studies testing the effects of peer nutrition education interventions based on theories of goal setting and culturally appropriate behaviour change are needed.
Further advancing knowledge in this promising field requires the incorporation of credible scales and the construction of acculturation.
The characteristics of the best peer educators, the type of training they should receive, the client load and volume, and the best educational approaches and offers to identify. An operational survey is also required to identify Preferences.
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