Community-based Mental Wellness Project for Adolescents and Adults: Healthy Community Pilot Project RCT Study
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Mental Well-being
- Sponsor
- The University of Hong Kong
- Enrollment
- 342
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Changes in participants' frequency of performing the suggested Sharing, Mind and Enjoyment (SME) related behaviours
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 7 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Aims: To enhance mental well-being of adolescents, adults and their families by creating a positive, happy and joyful environment in the community.
Targets: Adults aged 18-59 and their family members in Hong Kong.
Methods: Healthy Community Pilot Project will adopt the public health and family-focused approach, under the brand name of "Joyful@HK Campaign". Evidence-based and Evidence Generating approach with vigorous study design, both qualitative (e.g. focus groups) and quantitative (e.g. randomised controlled trial), will be used to evaluate the overall programme effectiveness including follow-up of at least one month ("best science"). To ensure the practicability and sustainability of the community-based engagement project, we will engage community partners with strong track records of "best practice" to design, plan, and implement the intervention. This project will use innovative and integrated positive psychology and public health theories and methods to plan brief, simple, and cost-effective intervention.
Significance: By using "best science" in the design and evaluation of intervention programme, and the "best practice" of the partners' skills, experience and strong connection with service targets in the community, the intervention, if proven to be effective, for promoting sharing, mind and enjoyment and enhancing mental well-being can be further developed and widely disseminated to and adopted by the practitioners in the health and social service sectors for replication and improvement to benefit the whole population.
Detailed Description
Healthy Community Pilot Project is one of the six Community-based Mental Wellness Project for Adolescents and Adults, which aims at enhancing mental well-being of adolescents, adults and their families by creating a positive, happy and joyful environment in the community. The project is funded by Health Care and Promotion Fund of Food and Health Bureau. Healthy Community Pilot Project is organized by the Hong Kong Council of Social Service and led by the School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong.The project will organize one train-the-trainer workshop to train the service providers from 8-10 NGO service units on the concept of sharing, mind and enjoyment (SME), ways of conducting SME family-based physical activities and knowledge of adult mental health problem (in particular the mixed anxiety and depressive disorder). Two SME family-based physical activities will be held by the NGO service providers in collaboration with 3 District Healthy City Committees. Each NGO service unit may organize enjoyable SME family-based physical activities according to the needs of individual district and to promote positive psychology under the theme of Sharing, Mind and Enjoyment. One wisdom sharing session will be organized to members of District Healthy City Committees to promote best practice of community mental wellness project. The major subjects of the Healthy Community Pilot Project RCT study are 150-200 families with 400 participants. 3 District Healthy City Committees will be selected as collaborators. 10-18 NGO service units will either be randomized into intervention service units and control service units. Cluster Randomized Control Trial will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention programme. In the study, families will be invited to complete a series of questionnaires or invited to attend focus groups to measure the sharing, mind and enjoyment related behavioural changes, mental well-being and subjective changes. NGO workers who joined the train-the-trainer workshop will also be invited to complete questionnaires to measure their knowledge about mental health, skills of conducting SME family-based physical activities and their sharing, mind and enjoyment related behavioural change. They will be invited to focus group interview to assess their experience and feedback on this project while community partners will be invited to individual in-depth interviews to assess the outcomes of community engagement process. HKU team will conduct evaluation during the programme implementation stage. The effectiveness of the intervention, as well as the level of participation and ratings for the intervention will also be evaluated.
Investigators
Dr. Wang Man-Ping
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
The University of Hong Kong
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Families (Major subjects):
- •Adults aged 18-59 and their family members (Their family members could be children)
- •Chinese speaking
- •Able to complete study questionnaires/ focus groups
- •Service providers of NGO service units
- •Staff working in the participating NGO service units
- •Adults aged 18-59
- •Chinese speaking
- •Able to complete study questionnaires/ focus group
- •Community partners
Exclusion Criteria
- •Those who cannot read Chinese
- •Those who suffered from severe mental disorders
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Changes in participants' frequency of performing the suggested Sharing, Mind and Enjoyment (SME) related behaviours
Time Frame: T1: baseline; T3: one-month follow-up after baseline; T4: three-month follow up after baseline
The frequency of performing the SME (Sharing: encourage families to do physical activity, encourage families to do zero-time exercise, do physical activity with families; Mind: have intention, goal and confidence to do physical activity; Enjoyment: enjoy physical activity) related behaviours in the past 7 days will be assessed. The questions are rated 0-7 with 0 indicating none of this behavior happened in the past 7 days and 7 indicating this behavior happened every day in the past 7 days.
Secondary Outcomes
- Changes in family relationship from baseline to three-month after baseline(T1: baseline; T3: one-month follow-up after baseline; T4: three-month follow up after baseline)
- Changes in individual and family happiness from baseline to three-month after baseline(T1: baseline; T3: one-month follow-up after baseline; T4: three-month follow up after baseline)
- Satisfaction towards SME physical activity training & program(T2: immediate post intervention; T3: one-month follow-up after baseline)
- The process of community based intervention programme(Up to four months)
- Changes in personal happiness from baseline to three-month after baseline(T1: baseline; T3: one-month follow-up after baseline; T4: three-month follow up after baseline)
- Changes in mental well-being from baseline to three-month after baseline(T1: baseline; T3: one-month follow-up after baseline; T4: three-month follow up after baseline)
- Changes in individual and family health from baseline to three-month after baseline(T1: baseline; T3: one-month follow-up after baseline; T4: three-month follow up after baseline)
- Changes in knowledge and perception of mixed anxiety and depressive disorders(T1: baseline; T2: immediate post intervention; T3: one-month follow-up after baseline; T4: three-month follow up after baseline)
- Changes in family harmony from baseline to three-month after baseline(T1: baseline; T3: one-month follow-up after baseline; T4: three-month follow up after baseline)
- The social impact of the community-based engagement project(Up to four months)
- Outcomes of community engagement process(Up to four months)