Training Program for Community Health Campaign: Fitter Families Project
- Conditions
- Motor Activity
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Training group
- Registration Number
- NCT03146169
- Lead Sponsor
- The University of Hong Kong
- Brief Summary
In recent years, Hong Kong has been undergoing rapid changes with macro social and economic trends. The increasingly complex and diverse family structure contribute to concerns regarding the well-being of families in Hong Kong, including their health, happiness and harmony (FAMILY 3Hs). Family life and health education should be strengthened to meet the increasing needs of promoting healthy active lifestyle among Hong Kong families. In this connection, the FAMILY Project initiates the Fitter Families Project (FFP) with a focus on "FAMILY Holistic Health", will be conducted in order to increase the awareness of the importance of FAMILY 3Hs. FFP is a community-based research project with 3 main components - train-the-trainer program, community-based family interventions and public education events. It is expected that trainees from the train-the-trainer program will acquire adequate skills to organize community-based health education programs effectively. Participants of the community-based family interventions will gain knowledge on family holistic health and live a healthy active lifestyle. Attendees of the public education events will become more aware of the importance of FAMILY 3Hs.
- Detailed Description
In 2011, United Nations (UN) addressed the prevention and control of four non-communicable diseases (NCDs: cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, and diabetes mellitus) worldwide. The UN, in its Political Declaration, recognized the critical importance of reducing the exposure to the common modifiable risk factors for NCDs, namely, tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, and the harmful use of alcohol.In Hong Kong, NCDs are responsible for more than 85% of all deaths and most of these are preventable. FAMILY Project Cohort Study (2014) also found that 88.6% of Hong Kong people had inadequate vegetable and fruit intake, 70.6% had inadequate physical exercise, 26.4% were overweight and 5.4% were obese.
Families worldwide have been undergoing rapid changes with macro, social and economic trends. Demographic shifts, economic upheavals, changing societal norms and values, immigration across national borders and migration within nations are creating new and altered structures, processes and relationships within families. The increasingly complex and diverse family structure contributes to concerns regarding the well-being of families in Hong Kong, including their health, happiness and harmony (FAMILY 3Hs). Family life and health education should be strengthened to meet the increasing needs of promoting healthy lifestyle among Hong Kong families.
The Fitter Families Project is developed based on the strong foundation of the Learning Families Project in the previous years. In view of the health challenges locally and globally, the new phase of FAMILY project will put more emphasis on health in the upcoming three years. Following the themes on FAMILY health, happiness and harmony (3Hs), the Fitter Families Project focuses on family holistic health with emphasis on the interaction and integration of both physical and psychosocial health.
As an initial step of this project, the investigators conducted a need assessments before designing and conducting a train-the-trainer program. The train-the-trainer program aimed to prepare the staff and lay volunteers to conduct and or assist to implement a series of community-based activities and interventions for the participants of Fitter Families Project. Focus group interviews were conducted to obtain feedback and opinion from the trainees . Questionnaire assessments were conducted before, immediately after finishing the training, three months after training.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 28
- Chinese speaking
- able to complete assessments
- not fit the inclusion criteria
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Training group Training group Four two-hour training sessions were conducted at baseline, and one week, one month and three months after the first session.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in trainees' learning baseline, immediately after first session "up to 30 min", one month and three months Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Trainees' changes in body weight (kg) Baseline and one month Assessed by a standard body fat and weight measuring scale
Trainees' changes in family harmony baseline, one month and three months Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
Trainees' changes in doing physical activity and exercise with family baseline, one month and three months Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
Community participants' changes in family harmony baseline, one month and three months Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
Trainees' changes in family health baseline, one month and three months Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
Trainees' changes in family happiness baseline, one month and three months Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
Trainees' comments on the received electronic health messages baseline, one month and three months Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
Trainees' changes in the frequency and amount on performing physical exercise adn Zero Time Exercise baseline, one month and three months Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire on performing moderate exercise, vigorous exercise and Zero Time Exercise and walking
Trainees' changes in grip strength (kg) baseline and one month assessed by a hand grip dynamometer
Trainees' changes in frequency and amount on performing physical activity and Zero Time Exercise) baseline, one month and three months Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire on performing moderate exercise, vigorous exercise and Zero Time Exercise and walking
Trainees' changes in personal health baseline, one month and three months Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
Trainees' reactions to training content Immediately after the training workshop Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
Trainees' changes in seat and reach (cm) Baseline and one month Assessed by a ruler
Community participants' changes in family health baseline, one month and three months Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
Community participants' changes in family happiness baseline, one month and three months Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
Trainees' changes in chair stand (times) Assessed 30s Chair stand test ( a test counting number of times from sitting position to standing position in 30 seconds baseline and one month
Trainees' changes in single-leg standing time (second) Assessed by a single-leg stance test ( a test measuring the longest duration of a single leg in 120 seconds) baseline and one month
Trainees' changes in body fat (%) Baseline and one month Assessed by a standard body fat and weight measuring scale
Trainees' changes in personal happiness baseline, one month and three months Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
Trainees' changes in sharing health knowledge with family members in relation to physical activity baseline, one month and three months Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Christian Family Service Centre
ðŸ‡ðŸ‡°Kwun Tong, Hong Kong