Partnerships to Improve Lifestyle Interventions (PILI) 'Ohana Dissemination Project

The purpose of the OHA PILI 'Ohana Project is to disseminate and evaluate the effectiveness
of a community-based intervention (PILI 'Ohana Intervention Program) aimed at eliminating
obesity in Pacific Peoples across the four islands. Dissemination will involve implementation
of the program in eight communities through partnerships with nine different community-based
organizations serving those areas (four founding community partners and five new community
partners). These organizations provide services to a large number of Pacific Peoples,
including (but not limited to) Native Hawaiians, Samoans, Filipinos, and Chuukese.

The main aims are to: (1) train five additional community organizations and their staff to
deliver the PILI 'Ohana Intervention Program, (2) to enroll 150 overweight/obese participants
across 8 different communities and four different islands into the intervention program, and
(3) to evaluate the effectiveness of the program in reducing weight/BMI by at least 3% of the
participant's initial weight.

The PILI 'Ohana Intervention is a 9-month lifestyle intervention focusing on individual
health behaviors in the context of family and community environments and in the
socio-cultural context of Pacific Peoples. In order to increase the likelihood that an
organization will implement the PLP, they will be able to adapt the intervention and
participant assessments. The POP will provide guidance on adaption of the intervention and
assessments at the training (CHS #21680). What is described below is the maximum amount of
contact and assessment procedures that participants will undergo. Therefore, organizations
may change the timing of the 14 lessons and refrain from using all the assessment procedures,
but will still provide the 14 lessons and offer the same incentives to participants for
assessments.