Is Demographic Concordance Between Lifestyle Coach and Participant Associated With Participant Retention and Weight Change in the National Diabetes Prevention Program Lifestyle Change Intervention?

Our findings suggest that there is increased odds of retention among racially concordant pairs. We did not observe a significant relationship between gender and age concordant pairs and retention nor race, gender, and age concordant pairs and weight loss. Our findings suggest that National DPP LCP programs could consider racial concordance in their program design and implementation as a factor to boost participant retention.