Training Workshop for Promoting Family Well-being Through a Community-based "Learning Families" Campaign

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Well-being; Family
• Interventions: Behavioral: training group

• Registration Number: NCT02844244
• Lead Sponsor: The University of Hong Kong

Brief Summary

To strengthen family well-being and neighborhood cohesion in Kwun Tong community, a community -based "Learning families" campaign was conducted. As an initial step of this project, the investigators conducted a need assessments before designing and conducting a train-the-trainer workshop.The train-the-trainer workshop aimed to prepare the members of Estate Management Advisory Committees (EMAC) and Mutual Aid Committees (MACs) to implement and assist in conducting a series of community-based family well-being activities for residents in a public housing estate. Focus group interviews (before and one year after training workshop) were conducted to obtain opinion from the members of EMAC and MACs of the public housing estate. Questionnaire assessments were conducted before, immediately after finishing the training workshop, one year after training workshop.

Detailed Description

According to the Social Welfare Department statistics, Kwun Tong has been ranked as the highest for the reported cases of elderly abuse (12.3%), the second and fourth highest for the reported cases of battered spouse (9.2%) and child abuse (7.9%) respectively . To strengthen family well-being in the Kwun Tong community, the investigators adopt a community-based participatory (CBP) approach and implement a community-based "Learning Families" campaign in Kwun Tong district with our collaborator, the Christian Family Service Centre (CFSC). The campaign aims to promote family health, happiness, and harmony (3Hs) through cultivating cooperative and self-regulated family learning culture in the public housing estate

Given that CFSC is the leading non-government organization based in Kwun Tong district, the investigators believe that the proposed campaign will deliver the family well-being messages effectively in the community via engaging major stakeholders such as the Estate Management Advisory Committees (EMACs) and the Mutual Aid Committees (MACs).

The investigators implemented a brief training sessions to the resident leaders of EMAC \& MACs to engage and equip them with the general concept of "Family well-being", " Learning family", "Neighbourhood cohesion" and activities organizing skills. The train-the-trainer workshop aimed to prepare the members of Estate Management Advisory Committees (EMAC) and Mutual Aid Committees (MACs) to implement and assist in conducting a series of community-based family well-being activities for residents in a public housing estate.

Focus group interviews (before and one year after training workshop) were conducted to obtain opinion from the members of EMAC and MACs of the public housing estate. Questionnaire assessments were conducted before, immediately after finishing the training workshop, one year after training workshop.

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-12
• Primary Completion: 2012-08
• Study Completion: 2012-08
• Status Verified: 2016-07
• Study First Submitted: 2016-07-19
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-07-21
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-07-21
• Study First Posted: 2016-07-26
• Last Update Posted: 2016-07-26

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 32

Inclusion Criteria

• Ethnic Chinese older 18 years of age,
• able to read Chinese and speak Cantonese,
• willing to carry out the duties of peer health promoters in the project.

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Exclusion Criteria

• not fit the inclusion criteria

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
training group	training group	Two two-hour training sessions for the participants. It aimed to train lay resident leaders to be peer health promoters. The peer health promoters were taught either to independently implement or to assist social workers to conduct a series of community-based family well-being activities.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in learning	Baseline, immediately after finishing training workshop "up to 30 min" and one year after training workshop	Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Practice of implementing community activities	Baseline and one year after training workshop	Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
change the residents' family well-being	Baseline and one year after training workshop	Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
Reactions to training content	Immediately after finishing training workshop "up to 30 min" and one year after training workshop	Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire