A Community Center as a Health Promoting Setting Clinical Trial
— HPCCNOfficial title:
Evaluation of a Health Promoting Community Center Network (HPCCN) Innovation
Verified date | November 2021 |
Source | Hadassah Medical Organization |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Interventional |
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.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 22 |
Est. completion date | November 24, 2021 |
Est. primary completion date | January 1, 2021 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | No |
Gender | Female |
Age group | 6 Years and older |
Eligibility | 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 |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Israel | Hadassah Medical Organization | Jerusalem |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Hadassah Medical Organization | Ministry of Health, Israel |
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Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | project planning, implementation and assessment | 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 | 3 years | |
Primary | Israeli Healthy Cities Network adapted measure | 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. | 12 months after intervention initiation | |
Secondary | European Quality Instrument for Health Promotion | 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. | 6 months after intervention initiation |