Session 12 Handout Your Heart, Your Life: Three Strategies To Offer in Your Community

• Increase the number of promotores who are prepared to train others.
• Increase the use of the “Your Heart, Your Life” manual by trained promotores.
• Increase knowledge about heart health.
• Increase positive attitudes and behaviors toward a healthy lifestyle.
• Increase the ability to identify risk factors for cardiovascular disease in participants.

Trained promotores train others by:

• Recruiting promotores.
• Teaching the “Your Heart, Your Life” manual to other promotores.
• Administering the pretest and posttest.
• Doing followups to make sure that trained promotores are using the manual.

Clinical and nonclinical:

• Community-based organizations
• Clinics
• Hospitals
• Public health programs

• Promotores
• Other health professionals, for example, nurses, registered dietitians, nutritionists, and public health educators

• Increase knowledge about heart health.
• Increase positive attitudes to make lifestyle changes.
• Increase the adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviors.

Trained promotores who work in nonclinical settings:

• Recruit members of the community.
• Teach the “Your Heart, Your Life” manual.
• Administer the “My Health Habits Pretest and Posttest.”

Nonclinical:

• Community-based organizations
• Resource centers
• Homes
• Schools
• Faith-based organizations
• Senior centers

• Families and community members with signed informed consent

• Increase knowledge about heart health.
• Increase positive attitudes to make lifestyle changes.
• Increase the adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviors.
• Track participants' clinical data.
• Refer participants with elevated levels to health care professionals to verify if levels are high.

Trained promotores working in nonclinical settings:

• Recruit members of the community.
• Teach the “Your Heart, Your Life” manual.
• Administer the “My Health Habits Pretest and Posttest.”
• Take height, weight, and waist measures.
• Measure participants' blood pressure, blood cholesterol, and blood glucose levels.
• Refer individuals with elevated clinical measures to health care professionals to confirm their levels are high.

• Nonclinical in partnership with a health care professional

• Families and community members with signed informed consent

• Increase knowledge about heart health.
• Increase positive attitudes for making lifestyle changes.
• Increase adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviors.
• Lower body mass index (BMI), high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, and high blood glucose.

Trained promotores who participate as members of the health care team:

• Teach the “Your Heart, Your Life” manual to patients with heart disease risk factors and to patients who are interested in learning about heart health.
• Administer the “My Health Habits Pretest and Posttest.”
• Take patients' height, weight, and waist measures.
• Work with health care professionals to track patients' blood pressure, blood cholesterol, and blood glucose.
• Do followup activities (home visits and phone calls) to make sure patients are following their treatment plans and making lifestyle changes.
• Provide social support and encouragement.

• Clinics
• Hospitals
• Managed- care programs
• Health centers
• Private doctors' offices
• Health departments

• Patients with heart disease risk factors
• Patients interested in learning about heart health