The purpose of this study is to learn whether the stress reduction program, called “Resilience, Stress, and Ethnicity” (RiSE) improves the body’s response to stress in African American women who have risk factors for heart or metabolic disease.
RiSE is a group-based, 8-week intervention that integrates cognitive behavioral strategies focused on the impact that social stress, such as racism has on the body, racial identity development and empowerment. Approximately 200 women will participate in this research from the Chicagoland and New York City areas.