NCT04470960

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

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 22 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hadassah Medical Organization · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 6 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed description

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.

Conditions

• A Community Center as a Health Promoting Setting

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Training course for the community center health coordinators	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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-12-11
• Primary completion: 2021-01-01
• Completion: 2021-11-24
• First posted: 2020-07-14
• Last updated: 2021-11-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel