Rachel I Steinberg, Joel A Begay, Paula M Begay, Deidra L Goldtooth, Shawna T M Nelson, Debra A Yazzie, Alan M Delamater, Christine W Hockett, Phoutdavone Phimphasone-Brady, Jeffrey C Powell, Madhumita Sinha, Dana Dabelea, Katherine A Sauder
Tribal Turning Point (TTP) is a community-based randomized controlled trial of a lifestyle intervention to reduce risk factors for type 2 diabetes in Native youth. TTP began in 2018 and was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. In this paper we aimed to understand 1) how the pandemic impacted TTP's operations, and how the TTP team successfully adapted to these impacts; 2) how the effects of COVID-19 and our adaptations to them were similar or different across TTP's research sites; and 3) lessons learned from this experience that may help other Native health research teams be resilient in this and future crises...
2022: American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: the Journal of the National Center