Description: This article presents a protocol for developing and testing a culturally tailored intervention to improve health outcomes in a specific population, outlining the study rationale, design, recruitment strategy, data collection methods, and planned analyses. Overall, it serves as a roadmap for how the researchers intend to assess the intervention’s impact while ensuring methodological rigor and responsiveness to participant needs.

Citation: Khodneva, Y., Cherrington, A. L., Arora, P., Blair, J., Safford, M. M., Reid, R. J., Sterling, M. R., Nordberg, M., Goyal, P., & Levitan, E. B. (2026). Life’s Essential 8 and Incident Heart Failure Among REGARDS Participants With and Without Diabetes. JACC. Heart failure, 14(2), 102686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchf.2025.102686