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Navigate your way to better health!

In our community, we all know someone who has suffered from diabetes.

Together we can change that!

Join CUT4Health and work with your barber or stylist to help create a healthier community.

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What is CUT4Health?

CUT4Health is a free program created to empower you to prevent or manage diabetes. We are excited to test it in Maryland! If it works, it can be used across the U.S.!

The CUT4Health program is...

  • An interactive texting program with tips about how to make changes to your eating and exercise habits at your own pace
  • Designed to help you overcome barriers to improving your health
  • Completely confidential
  • Based on the science of behavior change
  • Quick and easy to use
  • Created by a team including ProChange Behavior Solutions (a small business in RI), barbers, stylists, community members, the HAIR Network, and the University of Maryland Center for Health Equity

Who can participate?

Anyone who is:
  • At least 18 years of age
  • Not pregnant
  • Living in Maryland
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Ready to CUT4Health?

Join us in the fight against diabetes!

If you're ready now, just tap or click the button below and then select your barber or stylist. They'll guide you on what to do.

If you want to think it over, ask your barber or stylist for a card you can take home. Scan the QR code or text the start word any time to see if CUT4Health is right for you.

  • An interactive texting program with tips about how to make changes to your eating and exercise habits at your own pace, when YOU are ready
  • Customized to help you overcome barriers to improving your health
  • Completely confidential
  • Based on the science of behavior change
  • Quick and easy to use
  • Built by ProChange Behavior Solutions, a small business in RI, with advice from barbers, stylists, community members, the HAIR Network, and the University of Maryland 

How long does the program last?

  • The program will last for as long as you'd like for up to 12 months.
  • After you answer the initial questions, we'll send you a text message tip every day or every other day for 30 days.
  • Every 7 days, we'll text you a few more brief questions (like how much exercise you get) so we can tailor your messages for you. Standard message and data rates apply.
  • If you decide to continue, we'll update your feedback every 7 days.
  • You can stop the messages at any time by texting us STOP.

What Do I Get Out of CUT4Health?

  • Good ideas about how to take small steps to eat healthy and be active
  • Free, personalized tips on how to be healthier right at your fingertips
  • Ideas and links to local resources to overcome barriers to being healthy
  • A chance to share and to help others in your community
  • Everyone who takes part in CUT4Health and answers their questions will be entered into a drawing to win one of 10, $10 prizes or 1, $100 prize every week. So you can win up to $100 in Amazon* or grocery store gift cards each week just for taking part in the program.
  • People with prediabetes may be invited to:
    • Use a free digital scale
    • Join a Diabetes Prevention Program with your barber or stylist as your lifestyle coach

*restrictions apply, see amazon.com/gc-legal

What will happen to my data?

The answers you give to the text message program and the follow-up survey will not be shared with anyone outside the research team. Your barber or stylist will not see your answers. Your phone number will not be shared with or sold to anyone.

Only approved project team members who have been trained to protect people’s privacy can see the records. Your data may be sent to researchers outside of ProChange for data analyses. Any personal information that could identify you will be removed before the data are shared.

There is one exception to the promise of confidentiality: if we see or are told that a child is being abused or neglected or that someone is planning to harm themselves or someone else, we may disclose this information to the proper authorities.

Who should I contact if I have questions about CUT4Health?

Please send us any questions or comments to CUT@prochange.com.

Approved by Institutional Review Board: IRB00001671, project #2022-4

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91 Point Judith Road
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Narragansett, RI 02882
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