Discussion Unit Seven Week Seven

For the purpose of this week’s discussion, I will be reviewing an abstract on the topic

“Mediators and Moderators of the Effectiveness of a Community Health Worker

Intervention that Improved Dietary Outcomes in Pregnant Latino Women”, [ CITATION

Sha15 \l 1033 ]. This abstract summarizes the whole article in about 243 words (16

words by 15 lines). The abstract gives a concise outline of the background of the study,

the study purpose “to improve the development and targeting of future community health

worker interventions for h pregnant women, we examined baseline characteristics

(moderators) and potential mechanisms (mediators) associated with these dietary

changes” (Shah et al., 2015), methods used in the study i.e. secondary analysis of 220

Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) of participants and the statistical methods used to

analyze the study findings i.e. linear regression with effects and Sobel-Goodman

mediation tests. The abstract also included the results of the study “women younger than

age 30 were more likely to reduce ad consumption than older women” (Shah et al., 2015),

the abstract reads in part, and in conclusion, the study recommends the use of tailored

community-based interventions when developing dietary goals targeting pregnant Latino

women.

The last part of the abstract is the listing of the Keywords that included an outline of the

important key words used in the study including community health, community-based

participatory research, diabetes, Latino, maternal and child health, race/ethnicity.

I think that the abstract was created in a standard that abstracts should be and contains all

the required key information that summarizes the whole article. Honestly, I didn’t see any

major flaws in the abstract. Given the chance to improve on the abstract, I would arrange
the background, purpose, methods, results, and conclusion in separate paragraphs.

All in all, I would use this style when writing my own abstract with the little modification

above.

Reference

Shah, M. K., Keiffer, E. C., Choi, H., Schumann, C., & Heisler, M. (2015). Mediators

and Moderators of the Effectiveness of a Community Health Worker Intervention

that Improved Dietary Outcomes in Pregnant Latino Women. Health Education

and Behavior , 42 (5), 593-603.