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Evaluation of a Health Promoting Community Center Network (HPCCN) Innovation.

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
A Community Center as a Health Promoting Setting
Interventions
Behavioral: Training course for the community center health coordinators
Registration Number
NCT04470960
Lead Sponsor
Hadassah Medical Organization
Brief Summary

The purpose of this research study is to design, implement and evaluate the setting for a "Healthy Community Center". This is a program review of a program which will be planned in a community based participatory level, based on the socioecological model. A pre-post design will be utilized where all community centers in the study will be exposed to the intervention components. It is hypothesized that community centers who will receive the intervention will have better skills at building sustainable participatory effective health promotion projects and will provide a healthy setting for the community within its juristiction.

Detailed Description

The purpose of this research study is to design, implement and evaluate the setting for a "Healthy Community Center". This is a program review of a program which will be planned in a community based participatory level, based on the socioecological model. A pre-post design will be utilized where all community centers in the study will be exposed to the intervention components. All community centers (n=15) will be evaluated by pre intervention questionairres and focus groups of community center Managers and health promotion professionals. The network will be designed upon the foundation of the "Healthy Cities network" with adaptations made in the process of participatory planning and designing according to the results of the focus groups. Intervention will include a a 12 week training session for designated "Health Coordinator" from each community center, Planning and implementing a personolized Health promtion Project in each community centre .It is hypothesized that community centers who will receive the intervention will have better skills at building sustainable participatory effective health promotion projects and will provide a healthy setting for the community within its juristiction.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
Female
Target Recruitment
22
Inclusion Criteria
  • People who live within the geographical area of the community centers
Exclusion Criteria
  • Children under the age of 6 People who do not reside within the geographical area of the community centers

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
participating community centersTraining course for the community center health coordinatorsTraining course for the community center health coordinators Professional guidance for the CC health coordinators
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
project planning, implementation and assessment3 years

RE-AIM assessment of Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation and Maintenance of the Community Center Programs, assessed by interview, There are 4-6 tailored questions in each domain and the answers are coded as yes, partially and no. Scores range from 0 -93

Israeli Healthy Cities Network adapted measure12 months after intervention initiation

Israeli Healthy Cities Network evaluation tool was designed based on the MARI's (Monitoring Accountability Reporting Impact assessment) framework. It assesses six dimensions of the principles and strategies of the Healthy Cities work: (i) Equity policy and political support. (ii) Management. (iii) Health promotion programs and activities in the city. (iv) Community participation. (v) Intersectoral partnerships (vi) Environmental protection activities. This questionnaire was adapted to a community center framework.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
European Quality Instrument for Health Promotion6 months after intervention initiation

information on four domains using in-person interviews: (i) compliance with international principles of Health promotion programs, (ii) development and implementation, (iii) project management and (iv) sustainability of programs. each item of the EQUIHP tool was recoded on a scale of 0-1: a score of 0 if the criteria was identified as not fulfilled, 0.5 if partly fulfilled and 1 if fully fulfilled. The sum of all valid scores per programme was divided by the number of valid answers to give the mean score. A mean score was given for each of the four domains, and for the overall score in the same manner. Higher scores are better.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hadassah Medical Organization

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Jerusalem, Israel

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