The University of Rochester’s research into the health of Deaf communities will expand nationwide with renewed funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With the new five-year Prevention Research Center grant, the National Center for Deaf Health Research (NCDHR) will implement its successful Deaf Weight Wise program at sites across the U.S.
Deaf Weight Wise is a 16-week healthy lifestyle program developed by Deaf researchers at the NCDHR in collaboration with Deaf community members. The program, which was created to address a leading health issue among Rochester’s Deaf communities, promotes physical activity and healthy eating and provides Deaf-to-Deaf peer support.
In a clinical trial conducted in Rochester, Deaf Weight Wise helped participants lose weight. Sixty-two percent of Deaf Weight Wise participants lost a clinically meaningful amount of weight compared to 18 percent of Deaf sign language users in the control group…
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