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Deaf Weight Wise: Community-engaged Implementation Research to Promote Healthy Lifestyle Change With Deaf American Sign Language Users in Western and Central New York State
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Deaf Weight Wise intervention for Healthy Lifestyle and 4 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 85 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The purpose of the Deaf Weight Wise Implementation Study is to study with diverse partners the approaches and strategies that lead to successful implementation of Deaf Weight Wise (DWW), an evidence-based healthy lifestyle intervention for use with Deaf adult American Sign Language (ASL) users. The implementation hypothesis is that diverse community organizations will successfully implement DWW with their constituents.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
The DWW intervention consists of groups of 5 subjects who meet together for 16 weeks, 2 hours each week. Group meetings will be held virtually on Zoom. A trained, deaf, ASL-fluent counselor will lead the sessions. Each session includes group sharing, problem solving, discussion of a weight management topic, and goal setting and action planning for the next week. A key principle of DWW is motivational interviewing, in which the counselor acts as a facilitator to help participants identify/recognize their own unhealthy behaviors, help individuals build skills that will promote behavior change, and help group members to support each other to make behavior changes. The maintenance phase starts immediately after the 16-week intervention, and consists of two meetings of the original group via Zoom; one at month 3 and one at month 6 of the maintenance period. Counselors also email participants bi-weekly to check in and provide additional support.