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. 2013 Oct 7;8(10):e73373. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073373

Table 5. Features of the cultural adaptations.

Cultural adaptation Cultural values vs. lay health advisors Categories of cultural values adaptations Cultural adaptation imply higher intensity Number of adaptations tested
Surface-structure Deep-structure Both Cultural values Involvement cultural health advisors Religious values Family values/family involved Cultural values not further specified Yes No Package One
Effective studies
Smoking cessation
Wetter et al. [17] x x x x x
Orleans et al. [16] x x x x x
Woodruff et al. [18] x x x x x
Diet and PA
Babamoto et al. [26] x x x x x
All three behaviors
Cene et al./Becker et al. [31], [32] x x x x
Studies not reporting effect of adaptation
Smoking cessation
Nollen et al. [15] x x x x x
Diet and PA
Keyserling et al. [29] x x x x x
Ard et al. [25] x x x x
Fitzgibbon et al. [28] x x x x x
Staten et al. [30] x x x x
Campbell et al. [27] x x x x x
Diet only
Kreuter et al. [21] x x x x x
Elder et al. [20] x x x x
Campbell et al. [19] x x x x x
Resnicow et al. [22] x x x x x
PA only
Chiang et al. [23] x x x x x
Newton et al. [24] x x x x x