Census Tract 25.

01
By: Alaina Hill, Aimee Apedjinou, Ivan Ubrieta

The North side of the CT start West Congress, Down to w Irvington. From East the east side the CT
follows the on Grande Rd., then extends out to Mission Rd. Extends east and follows the Santa Cruz
River. From the west side follows Interstate 10 then to S. 12 st

The community core

Race

CT%

White

74.6%

American Indian

7.5%

Asian

0.6%

African-American

4.6%

Hispanic or Latino (of any

race)

67.6%

The languages spoken

Languages spoken at CT%
home, 5 years and
over
English Only
45.9%
Spanish

52.1%

Spanish, speaking
18.6%
English less than very
well

Age Groups in the Community

Age group

CT%

<5

3.5

5-19

13.7

20-44

46.4

45-66

20

45-64

16.5

The community core culture and

ethnicity

Ethnic food stores

There

was one ethnic

food store seen

Ethnic restaurants

There

were 9 restaurant

were Mexican

was French

Places of worship

areas of worship

Catholic churches

Christian

Baptist

Apostolic

Art/sculpture

different sculptures along

the Santa Cruz river

Gathering information: Internet Data

Google
Pima

Maps

Tucson
U.S.

Maps
Parks and Recreation

Census Fact Finder

Gathering information: Windshield

survey

Restaurants

There was 19

Parks

La Mar Park

around the CT

Nearest

was 1 minute away,

and farthest was 3mintues.

Schools

Julian Wash Archeological

Park

Pueblo

Romsey Park

C.E.

Rodeo Wash

Santa Cruz

Fire/EMT

High School

Rose K-8

around CT

Police/sheriff

Gathering
information:
interviewees
Fire

department
El Rio Nurses
School Nurse
Medical
Assistant
Phycologist

Community Strength

Availability

of
resources
Strong community
ties
Cultural acceptance

Priority concerns

Priority concerns
1.

Lack of medication compliance related to Type II Diabetes

1.

2.

Unhealthy Diet
1.

3.

Advocacy: A poster will be placed in all of the buses in this census tract
with information about healthy food options and portion controls.

Diabetes prone population

1.

4.

Health Teaching: Teach a class focused on adherence and use of insulin

for patients with Type II Diabetes at the Marshall Home for Men

Screening: Health fairs will be set up at El Rio Community center where

patients can be screened for Type II Diabetes.

Abuse of Spice
1.

Policy Development and Enforcement: Smoke stores will no longer be able

to sell spice and harsher punishments will be enforced for spice use.

Nursing diagnosis
A nursing diagnosis that conforms to the medication
noncompliance issue for diabetes mellitus is: hyperglycemia
secondary to medication noncompliance among residents
diagnosed with type II diabetes living in CT 25.01 related to
lack of culturally appropriate teaching and understanding of
the treatment for type II diabetes as demonstrated by high
rates of emergency visits due to hyperglycemia and a high
prevalence of the symptoms of chronic hyperglycemia (foot
ulcers, loss of limbs, cataracts, and kidney damage).

Evidenced-based project/intervention

Marshall Home For

Men

group did a heath

teaching on non
compliance of
medications for
diabetes type II

Teaching optimal
health while living
diabetes

Support for the intervention

Assessing the relationship
between neighborhood factors
and diabetes related health
outcomes and self-care
behaviors

Decrease in self-care in neighborhood

Minnesota Wheel

Crime, violence, walking

environment, food insecurity,
social support

Social support

Neighborhood actives

Food security

(Smalls et al., 2015)

12 residents were present

for the intervention

Three factors that improve outcomes

Health teaching

Counseling

For resident to eat healthy

foods, exercise and to be
compliant to their
treatment.

Support for the intervention

Effectiveness of a self-management intervention with personalized
genetic and lifestyle-related risk information on coronary heart
disease and diabetes-related risk in type 2 diabetes (CoRDia): study
protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Support

to self-manage health behaviors such as medication

adherence, consuming a healthy diet, and engaging in physical
activity, which are known to reduce the risks associated with poor
glycemic control
We incorporated teaching of these core concepts to help with poor
glycemic control, but can be applied to taking all medication.
(Davies et al. Trials, 2015)

Intervention evaluation

Goals that were meet

Educate the residents on the importance of medication compliance

Educating symptoms of hypoglycemia, and hyperglycemia

Used everyday words when speaking

Translated the presentation in Spanish

Monitoring

The teaching was done at a right time

27% of the community members were present