TY  - JOUR
AU  - Arcaya, Mariana
AU  - Reardon, Timothy
AU  - Vogel, Joshua
AU  - Andrews, Bonnie K.
AU  - Li, Wenjun
AU  - Land, Thomas
PY  - 2014
TI  - Tailoring Community-Based Wellness Initiatives With Latent Class Analysis - Massachusetts Community Transformation Grant Projects
T2  - Preventing Chronic Disease
JO  - Prev Chronic Dis
SP  - E21
VL  - 11
CY  - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA.
N2  - INTRODUCTION  Community-based approaches to preventing chronic diseases are attractive because of their broad reach and low costs, and as such, are integral components of health care reform efforts. Implementing community-based initiatives across Massachusetts' municipalities presents both programmatic and evaluation challenges. For effective delivery and evaluation of the interventions, establishing a community typology that groups similar municipalities provides a balanced and cost-effective approach. METHODS  Through a series of key informant interviews and exploratory data analysis, we identified 55 municipal-level indicators of 6 domains for the typology analysis. The domains were health behaviors and health outcomes, housing and land use, transportation, retail environment, socioeconomics, and demographic composition. A latent class analysis was used to identify 10 groups of municipalities based on similar patterns of municipal-level indicators across the domains. RESULTS  Our model with 10 latent classes yielded excellent classification certainty (relative entropy = .995, minimum class probability for any class = .871), and differentiated distinct groups of municipalities based on health-relevant needs and resources. The classes differentiated healthy and racially and ethnically diverse urban areas from cities with similar population densities and diversity but worse health outcomes, affluent communities from lower-income rural communities, and mature suburban areas from rapidly suburbanizing communities with different healthy-living challenges. CONCLUSION  Latent class analysis is a tool that may aid in the planning, communication, and evaluation of community-based wellness initiatives such as Community Transformation Grants projects administrated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
SN  - 1545-1151
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd11.130215
DO  - 10.5888/pcd11.130215
ER  - 
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