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NCT Number: NCT04470960

Evaluation of a Health Promoting Community Center Network (HPCCN) Innovation.

The purpose of this research study is to design, implement and evaluate the setting for a "Healthy Community Center". This is a program review of a program which will be planned in a community based participatory level, based on the socioecological model. A pre-post design will be utilized where all community centers in the study will be exposed to the intervention components. It is hypothesized that community centers who will receive the intervention will have better skills at building sustainable participatory effective health promotion projects and will provide a healthy setting for the community within its juristiction.

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Key information

Conditions

A Community Center as a Health Promoting Setting

Age range

6 year and older

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Hadassah Medical Organization

Jerusalem, 91120, Israel

About this study

The purpose of this research study is to design, implement and evaluate the setting for a "Healthy Community Center". This is a program review of a program which will be planned in a community based participatory level, based on the socioecological model. A pre-post design will be utilized where all community centers in the study will be exposed to the intervention components. All community centers (n=15) will be evaluated by pre intervention questionairres and focus groups of community center Managers and health promotion professionals. The network will be designed upon the foundation of the "Healthy Cities network" with adaptations made in the process of participatory planning and designing according to the results of the focus groups. Intervention will include a a 12 week training session for designated "Health Coordinator" from each community center, Planning and implementing a personolized Health promtion Project in each community centre .It is hypothesized that community centers who will receive the intervention will have better skills at building sustainable participatory effective health promotion projects and will provide a healthy setting for the community within its juristiction.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • People who live within the geographical area of the community centers

Exclusion criteria

  • Children under the age of 6 People who do not reside within the geographical area of the community centers

Treatment and study plan

Training course for the community center health coordinators

Behavioral

These community centers who have volunteered to join the project will receive a 12 week training session which includes the values and principles of health promotion and the principles of building a health promotion project.

The participants will be requested to build a health promotion project within their community. Building and implementing the project will be assisted by a health promotion specialist. Each health promotion project will be evaluated according to the principles of health promotion.

Other names: Professional guidance for the CC health coordinators

Primary outcomes

  1. project planning, implementation and assessment

    Time frame: 3 years

    RE-AIM assessment of Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation and Maintenance of the Community Center Programs, assessed by interview, There are 4-6 tailored questions in each domain and the answers are coded as yes, partially and no. Scores range from 0 -93

  2. Israeli Healthy Cities Network adapted measure

    Time frame: 12 months after intervention initiation

    Israeli Healthy Cities Network evaluation tool was designed based on the MARI's (Monitoring Accountability Reporting Impact assessment) framework. It assesses six dimensions of the principles and strategies of the Healthy Cities work: (i) Equity policy and political support. (ii) Management. (iii) Health promotion programs and activities in the city. (iv) Community participation. (v) Intersectoral partnerships (vi) Environmental protection activities. This questionnaire was adapted to a community center framework.

Secondary outcomes

  1. European Quality Instrument for Health Promotion

    Time frame: 6 months after intervention initiation

    information on four domains using in-person interviews: (i) compliance with international principles of Health promotion programs, (ii) development and implementation, (iii) project management and (iv) sustainability of programs. each item of the EQUIHP tool was recoded on a scale of 0-1: a score of 0 if the criteria was identified as not fulfilled, 0.5 if partly fulfilled and 1 if fully fulfilled. The sum of all valid scores per programme was divided by the number of valid answers to give the mean score. A mean score was given for each of the four domains, and for the overall score in the same manner. Higher scores are better.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Hadassah Medical Organization

Other

Collaborators

  • Ministry of Health, Israel

Registry information

Official study title

Evaluation of a Health Promoting Community Center Network (HPCCN) Innovation

Acronym: HPCCN

Important dates

Study start
2017
Primary completion
2021
Study completion
2021
First posted
Jul 14, 2020
Registry last updated
Nov 26, 2021

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