Prevention of Non-communicable Diseases Through Screening and Educating Individuals on Health-risk Behaviours in the Community
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 进行中（未招募）
- 入组人数
- 330
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Abstain from health-risk behaviour
研究概览
简要总结
Aim: to prevent NCDs by screening and educating individuals in the community on health-risk behaviours. Specifically, we will use a mobile health and a brief self-determination theory-based intervention in helping individual change their health-risk behaviours.
Hypotheses to be tested: compared with those in the control group, the participants in the intervention group will experience significantly greater success in modifying their health-risk behaviours and will have a better health-related quality of life at 12 months follow-up.
Objectives
- To screen individuals for health-risk behaviours and identify risk factors that may contribute to NCDs
- To educate individuals on the importance of engaging in healthy lifestyles
- To develop a training programme - "Train the Trainers' Toolkit", with the goal to train student nurses (Years 2 to 5) as health ambassadors to implement the project on a long-term basis.
详细描述
Setting:
The project will be carried out in Kwai Chung Estate, one of the largest public housing estates with many low-income families in Hong Kong.
The project consists of four phases.
Phase I:
To invite 30 university nursing students (Year 2 to 5) to become health ambassadors for the prevention of NCDs in the community.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Chinese adults in Kwai Chung Estate:
- •age ≥18 years
- •the presence of at least one health risk behaviour (tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diet and physical inactivity)
- •able to communicate in Cantonese
- •Nursing students:
- •age ≥18 years
- •Year 2 to 5
排除标准
- •poor cognitive state or mental illness
- •participation in another related study.
结局指标
主要结局
Abstain from health-risk behaviour
时间窗: 12 months
About 10% of participants will successfully abstain from at least one health-risk behaviour at 12-month follow-up
次要结局
- Improvement in health-related quality of life(12 months)
- Improvement in body mass index(12 months)
- Reduction in health-risk behaviours(12 months)
- Ambassadors' knowledge and skill on providing professional health advice and support to participants about changing their health-risk behaviours(6 months)
- Improvement in blood pressure(12 months)
研究者
Li Ho Cheung William
Professor
Chinese University of Hong Kong