A "Happy Family Kitchen" Initiative for Promoting Family Health, Happiness, and Harmony in Tsuen Wan, Kwai Chung and Tsing Yi District
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 2,000
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Changes in family communication from baseline to 3 months after intervention
研究概览
简要总结
The School of Public Health of HKU collaborates with the Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKSCC) to conduct a district-based mega-project "Happy Family Kitchen", which using "eating" and "the kitchen" as a platform, to make the effort to improve effective communication in Hong Kong families.
The "HFK 2" project is a enhanced version of HFK project, which plan to be conducted in the Tsuen Wan, Kwai Chung and Tsing Yi district from August 2012 to August 2013. This project adopts a cluster-randomized controlled design, with the application of positive psychology concepts as a theoretical framework. A community-based participatory (CBP) approach, which is an effective way to engage public health researchers and community members (NGOs, schools, other major stakeholders, and participants), will be used. Both quantitative and qualitative methods will be used in the evaluation of major outcomes (participants' family relationship and 3Hs) at different time points throughout the project. Process evaluation will be performed to evaluate the process of each component of the project. The whole project includes two phases:
Phase 1: Model enhancement- an enhanced model of project is started with the training the trainer workshop to build capacity among the community partners. After that, the trained community partners design and conduct the district-based intervention programmes by using one of the five themes of the positive psychology framework, which teach the participants to practice positive behaviors for improving family communication, and in turn promote the 3Hs. The five themes are joy, flow, gratitude, savoring and listening. The pre-, post-, 4 weeks and 3 month follow up questionnaire surveys are conducted to assess the effectiveness of the programmes. All of the participating NGOs and schools will be randomly allocated into three groups:
Intervention arm 1: core session intervention + booster intervention; Intervention arm 2: only core session intervention; Control arm: waiting list control, only questionnaire evaluations can be conducted at different time points.
A subsequent qualitative study is conducted to further explore the outcomes, the problems and the requirements from the programmes.
Phase 2: Model scaling up- A series of Professional Tool Kits consist of practice guides and evaluation tools for different service settings will be published with the contribution of participating NGOs and project partners. The tool kits will be the key reference and be further disseminated to a wider scope. A series of Professional Practice Seminars will be organized in different regions (including Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Territories). Social work practitioners of various service settings will be invited to attend the seminars. The evidence-based professional tool kits will be introduced and distributed in the seminar. Clinical psychologist will be the speaker on how to apply positive psychology in practice, and HKU staff will also illustrate the use of evaluation tools in assessing the outcome of the program. Participating NGOs of this project will be invited to share their practice experience in Tsuen Wan and Kwai Tsing district as well. another new edition of Happy Family Cookbook will be published and distributed to the whole territory. The new edition will be enhanced with more attractive content including healthy recipes and tips for positive communication etc. To enhance the interactivity of the cookbook, related apps for mobile devices will be developed for public free download.
详细描述
Background
Traditionally, Chinese people place great importance on their families. However, the increasingly busy city lifestyle leaves little time for family gatherings and communication. A recent census by the Hong Kong government showed that nearly 50% of respondents never, or only occasionally, listened to their parents' concerns or heeded their advice on important matters; and over 50% rarely or never listened to their siblings' views or gave them advice on important matters. This lack of communication raises the problem of neglect or indifferent, rigid relationships within the family, which tend to exert negative effects on health, happiness and harmony (the 3Hs). For these reasons, the School of Public Health of HKU collaborates with the Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKSCC) to conduct a district-based mega-project "Happy Family Kitchen", which using "eating" and "the kitchen" as a platform, to make the effort to improve effective communication in Hong Kong families.
Current evidence
The Happy Family Kitchen 1 project (HFK 1 project) was launched in September 2010 with the mission to promote family health, happiness and harmony (i.e. 3Hs) by advocating positive family communication. In collaboration with 18 NGOs and SWD (including 23 service units) in Yuen Long district, the one-year HFK project was completed in August 2011, with the following achievements:
- Over 1,000 families joined the 23 community programs under the project theme of positive family communication in Yuen Long district.
- 50 professional social work practitioners were equipped with knowledge and skills in integrating positive psychology and program design through trainer's training.
- Built-in evaluative research study conducted to examine the project process and outcome.
- Practice wisdom consolidated and shared with the social services sector through a sharing forum and a specially designed practice manual.
- Over 10,000 pieces of Happy Family Kitchen Cookbook were distributed to the public with positive feedback received.
- Series of media publicity (e.g. news feature, magazine, Roadshow, You tube etc) was conducted to convey the key message of promoting positive family communication.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 6 Years 至 —（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- 未提供
排除标准
- •Participants who fail to meet the inclusion criteria
结局指标
主要结局
Changes in family communication from baseline to 3 months after intervention
时间窗: Pre-intervention (Up to 2 days before), immediate post- intervention (Up to 2 weeks after), four weeks and three months after intervention.
Family communication will be assessed by the Family communication scale.
Changes in family happiness from baseline to 3 months after intervention
时间窗: Pre-intervention (Up to 2 days before), immediate post- intervention (Up to 2 weeks after), four weeks and three months after intervention.
Happiness will be determinded by Subjective Happiness Scale and the one item question adopted from Subramanian et al. Self- preceived happiness at the individual and family level will aso be assessed by a 0-10 score at 4 time points.
Changes in family health from baseline to 3 months after intervention
时间窗: Pre-intervention (Up to 2 days before), immediate post- intervention (Up to 2 weeks after), four weeks and three months after intervention.
Health will be evaluated by the SF-12v2 Health Survey. Harmony will be assessed by a 12-item scale. Self-preceived health, at the individual and family level will also be assessed by a 0-10 score at 4 time points.
Changes in family harmony from baseline to 3 months after intervention
时间窗: Pre-intervention (Up to 2 days before), immediate post- intervention (Up to 2 weeks after), four weeks and three months after intervention.
Harmony will be assessed by a 12-item scale. Self-preceived harmony, at the individual and family level will also be assessed by a 0-10 score at 4 time points.
次要结局
- Changes in Participants' attitudes towards performing the suggested behaviours from baseline to 3 months after intervention(Pre-intervention (Up to 2 days before), immediate post- intervention (Up to 2 weeks after), four weeks and three months after intervention.)
- Changes in Participants' intention at performing the suggested behaviours from baseline to 3 months after intervention(Pre-intervention (Up to 2 days before), immediate post- intervention (Up to 2 weeks after), four weeks and three months after intervention.)
- Changes in Participants' frequency of performing the suggested behaviours from baseline to 3 months after intervention(Pre-intervention (Up to 2 days before), immediate post- intervention (Up to 2 weeks after), four weeks and three months after intervention.)
- Changes in social workers' knowledge of the application of positive psychology in the CBPR project before and after training session(Pre- and post- training (Up to 2 weeks before and after) ; as well as a 6-month, and 12-month follow-up)
- The social impact of the CBPR project(Post intervention program (Up to 3 months after))
- Changes in social workers' attitudes of the application of positive psychology in the CBPR project before and after training session(Pre- and post- training (Up to 2 weeks before and after) ; as well as a 6-month, and 12-month follow-up)
- Changes in social workers' self-competence of the application of positive psychology in the CBPR project before and after training session(Pre- and post- training (Up to 2 weeks before and after) ; as well as a 6-month, and 12-month follow-up)
- Changes in social workers' knowledge of the application of logic model in the CBPR project before and after training session(Pre- and post- training (Up to 2 weeks before and after) ; as well as a 6-month, and 12-month follow-up)
- Changes in social workers' attitudes of the application of logic model in the CBPR project before and after training session(Pre- and post- training (Up to 2 weeks before and after) ; as well as a 6-month, and 12-month follow-upediate post- intervention (Up to 2 weeks after), four weeks and three months after intervention.)
- Changes in social workers' self-competence of the application of logic model in the CBPR project before and after training session(Pre- and post- training (Up to 2 weeks before and after) ; as well as a 6-month, and 12-month follow-up)
- The process of community based intervention programme(Observe in every session of the community based intervention programme, including core intervention sessions, booster sessions, and tea-gathering sessions.)
- Changes in social workers' knowledge of the application of process evaluation in the CBPR project before and after training session(Pre- and post- training (Up to 2 weeks before and after) ; as well as a 6-month, and 12-month follow-up)
- Changes in social workers' attitudes of the application of process evaluation in the CBPR project before and after training session(Pre- and post- training (Up to 2 weeks before and after) ; as well as a 6-month, and 12-month follow-up)
- Changes in social workers' self-competence of the application of process evaluation in the CBPR project before and after training session(Pre- and post- training (Up to 2 weeks before and after) ; as well as a 6-month, and 12-month follow-up)
研究者
Prof. Sophia Siu-chee Chan
Professor
The University of Hong Kong