Clinical Trial Details
— Status: Recruiting
Administrative data
| NCT number |
NCT04034420 |
| Other study ID # |
UW 19-449 |
| Secondary ID |
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| Status |
Recruiting |
| Phase |
N/A
|
| First received |
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| Last updated |
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| Start date |
July 11, 2019 |
| Est. completion date |
June 30, 2026 |
Study information
| Verified date |
December 2023 |
| Source |
The University of Hong Kong |
| Contact |
Tai-Hing Lam, MD |
| Phone |
39179287 |
| Email |
hrmrlth[@]hku.hk |
| Is FDA regulated |
No |
| Health authority |
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| Study type |
Interventional
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Clinical Trial Summary
In the past few decades, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) have rapidly
developed as effective, and probably the most cost-effective tools to connect most aspects of
family lives. Alongside the growth in popularity of ICTs and its role in promoting family
well-being, there is also an increasing appreciation that ICTs such as internet-enabled
devices and web-based applications can offer many advantages compared to traditional
face-to-face approaches when delivering behaviour change programmes.
To gain more understanding of the potential new avenues of using ICT in programme
implementation, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust has initiated the Jockey Club SMART
Family-Link Project in collaboration with The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and NGOs. This
project aimed at helping 26 NGO-operated Integrated Family Service Centres and Integrated
Service Centres (Centres), making effective use of information and communications technology
(ICT) and data analytics, to enhance the quality and efficiency of their family service.
Besides, it aims at building the capabilities of front-line workers so as to achieve the goal
of enhancing family well-being by building an online training platform. We anticipated that
the platform will benefit social workers or service-related workers in terms of knowledge
transfer, experience sharing, and wisdom practice.
Description:
In the past few decades, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) have rapidly
developed as effective, and probably the most cost-effective tools to connect most, if not
all, aspects of family lives. In Hong Kong, as of March 2016, the number of mobile service
subscribers was 16.72 million, representing one of the highest penetration rates in the world
at about 228.3 per cent; amongst these subscribers, 14.69 million were 3G/ 4G service
customers and there is a surge to 20,557 Terabytes (or an average of 1,358 Megabytes per
2.5G/3G/4G mobile user) recorded for local mobile data usage, representing a growth of 1.18
times and 1.58 times over the same period in 2015 and 2014 respectively.
While alongside the growth in popularity of ICTs and its role in promoting family well-being,
there is also an increasing appreciation that ICTs such as internet-enabled devices and
web-based applications can offer many advantages compared to traditional face-to-face
approaches when delivering behaviour change programmes. It is believed that ICT helps
facilitate access to interventions from a large variety of settings at all times, bringing
the intervention to participants at times convenient to them and diminishing the influence of
the situational constraints on intervention participation rates. The rise of ICT has created
promising and potential new avenues and demand for implementing interventions related to
mental health and parenting.
The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust has initiated the Jockey Club SMART Family-Link
Project in collaboration with The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and NGOs, making effective
use of information and communications technology (ICT) and data analytics, aimed at helping
26 NGO-operated Integrated Family Service Centres and Integrated Service Centres (Centres),
to enhance the quality and efficiency of their family service. The project also aims at
building the capabilities of front-line workers so as to achieve the goal of enhancing family
well-being by building an online training platform.
The i-Training, Learning, and Sharing (i-TLS) platform will provide staff training and skills
enhancing through carefully selected materials in one convenient location, forums for wisdom,
experience, and information sharing between staff.
1. i-Training: Using a variety of computerized formats, the i-Training platform may bring
professional training content to social workers at their convenience.
2. i-Learning: It provides a co-learning area for social and related service workers from
different service centers to learn from and support each other, such as the NGO-shared
best practice and the updated ICT information in relation to family services and
activities. This may enhance service effectiveness.
3. i-Sharing: It provides social and service-related workers with an instant online means
to share experiences and have discussions
The Platform will benefit social workers or service-related workers in terms of knowledge
transfer, experience sharing, and wisdom practice.
The goal of the study is to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of using online i-TLS
platform to provide training and encourage a co-learning and sharing culture amongst social
work professionals.
A process evaluation will be performed to evaluate the process of each component of the
program. Qualitative and quantitative assessments will be used to evaluate the effectiveness
of the activities
