**Authors' Notes**

Parts of this paper were presented as an oral presentation at the 8th Annual University of Illinois at Chicago Minority Health Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 2017, and at the Fourth International Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment Conference, Chicago, Illinois, September 2017. Parts of this paper were also presented as a poster at the Latino Health Symposium, Medical Organization for Latino Advancement (MOLA), Chicago, Illinois, November 2017, where it also received the Best Poster Award for a Research Project. This work was conducted when Magdalena Nava was at the Puerto Rican Cultural Center.

The words 'Hispanic', 'Hispanic/Latino', and 'Latinx' are used interchangeably, depending on the study being reviewed. 'Latinx' is used as a general inclusive term to refer to all persons of Hispanic/Latin American background. The term 'Latino' is used for participants in the current study, as that was the term used in recruitment and/or interviews in the parent study (the Latino Men's Health Initiative).

**Author Contributions:** Conceptualization, L.S.-J.; Data curation, L.S.-J.; Formal analysis, A.R.; Funding acquisition, L.S.-J., A.D.-E., M.N. and A.R.; Investigation, L.S.-J.; Methodology, L.S.-J.; Project administration, L.S.-J.; Resources, L.S.-J., L.C. and M.N.; Supervision, L.S.-J.; Writing—original draft, L.S.-J., A.D.-E., M.N., A.R. and C.H.; Writing—review and editing, L.S.-J., A.D.-E., C.E.R., L.C., A.R., M.N. and C.H. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** This study was funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute, Grant numbers R21CA143636 and R1CA143636-S to Sanchez-Johnsen. Research reported in this publication was also supported, in part, by the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute, Grant numbers U54CA202995, U54CA202997, and U54CA203000 to Sanchez-Johnsen, Amanda-Dykema-Engblade, Alfred Rademaker, Magdalena Nava, and Leonilda Calderon. Additional funding was provided by the Department of Psychiatry and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Illinois Cancer Center, the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System- Population Health Sciences Program to Sanchez-Johnsen. Additional services were provided by the UIC Center for Clinical and Translational Science (Funded by UL1TR000050). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

**Institutional Review Board Statement:** The Institutional Review Board at the University of Illinois at Chicago (IRB 2011-0187) and the Research Review Board at Alivio Medical Center approved this study.

**Informed Consent Statement:** Written informed consent was obtained from all participants involved in the study.

**Data Availability Statement:** The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

**Acknowledgments:** We extend our appreciation to all research participants as well as to our community partners at the Puerto Rican Cultural Center's Diabetes Empowerment Center, the Greater Humboldt Park Community of Wellness, Casa Central, Bickderdike Redevelopment Corporation, and Alivio Medical Center. The authors gratefully acknowledge the following community partners for their involvement in various phases of the study: Magdalena Nava, Leonilda Calderon, Jaime Delgado, Julia Escamilla, Susan Vega, Jose Luis Rodriguez, Illeana Gomez and Christy Prahl. The authors also extend their deep appreciation to all of the research staff, students and trainees who helped with this study, including the following individuals: Liliana Bolanos, Kelly Ortega, Eduardo Bastian, Regina Reina, Michelle Toledo, Angelica Alonso, Alejandra Onate, Erin Rodriguez, Christian Gomez, Francis Caparroso, John Capua, Andres Carrion, and Julius Lara. The authors extend their gratitude to Irma Rodas for her technical assistance in the preparation of this manuscript.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
