The Health and Effect of Health Empowerment Programmes Among Families in Tung Chung

Quality of Life Clinical Trial

Official title:

In-depth Exploration of a Bidirectional Parent-child Health Relationship and Its Mediating Factors Among Low-income Families in Hong Kong

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03918720
• Other study ID #: UW 12-517
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 1, 2013
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: December 2023
• Source: The University of Hong Kong
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Kerry Group Kuok Foundation Limited (KGKF) has initiated the Trekkers Family Project that aims to enable low-income families to develop their full potentials by providing support and opportunities in education, employment, environmental harmony and health. Health is an essential component to enable a person to develop his/her full potential. This study looks into one of the key elements, health, of members of low-income families and the effect of health education, health enablement and mutual health support on health and social outcomes. It is a cohort study of around 800 subjects from 200 families of the Trekkers Family Project, and around 800 subjects not included in the Trekkers Family Project in Hong Kong, recruited base on pre-defined inclusion criteria. Health empowerment interventions consisting of three inter-related programmes, namely, the Health Literacy, the Self-care Enablement, and the Health Ambassador Programmes.

Description:

The Health Literacy Programme aims to improve the knowledge on health and health services in order to promote health, prevent disease, and the proper use of services. It consists of four seminars per year on common health problems, mental health and cognitive health, etc.

The Self-Care Enablement Programme is to enable participants to keep themselves healthy, to build up self-efficacy and proper help-seeking skills, and to generate a spirit of mutual support among families. Two programmes will be delivered yearly, each with six 2.5 hour workshops facilitated by professional and lay leaders.

The Health Ambassador Programme aims to train up a group of adults recruited from the Trekkers families to act as a lay-advisor to other families on health issues. Participants who have completed the Health Literacy and Self-care Enablement programme will be given priority to take part in the Health Ambassador training programme.

The outcome measures are health enablement, health status, health-related quality of life, life style, cardiovascular risk factors, illnesses rates, and health service utilization pattern. All subjects in the cohort study will be surveyed on enrolment, and then yearly for 5 years. An age-gender appropriate health assessment will be carried out at baseline and at the end of five years for each subject. Changes in the outcomes will be evaluated and compared between groups. The impact of the health intervention programmes will be assessed.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 1200
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 6 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Intervention group (inclusion criteria of Trekkers Families)

1. Participants included must be part of a family whom all family members are usual residents in Tung Chung;

2. The family must have at least one family member working full-time or part-time;

3. The family household income does not exceed 75% of monthly median income of Hong Kong;

4. At least one child studying Primary 1,2 or 3 at the time of recruitment; and

5. At least one adult family member must be willing to participate in the long-term follow up study.

6. Only fathers, mothers and children aged 6 or above will be included in this study.

2. Control group

1. Participants included must be part of a family whom all family members are usual residents in Hong Kong;

2. The family household income does not exceed 75% of monthly median income of Hong Kong;

3. At least one child studying Primary 1, 2 or 3 at the time of recruitment;

4. Only fathers, mothers and children aged 6 or above will be included in this study.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. None of the family member was able to understand or communicate in Chinese language,

2. The family is receiving Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA),

3. Refuse to give consent.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Empowerment
• Quality of Life

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Trekkers Family Health Empowerment Programme
Health Assessment, Health Enablement and Health Literacy provided to empower participants awareness towards a healthier life style

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Hong Kong	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
The University of Hong Kong

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Hong Kong, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Change from Baseline Health knowledge test to 60 months		Up to 1 year
Other	Change from Baseline Health enablement by the Patient Enablement Instrument and overall satisfaction to 60 months		Up to 1 year
Other	Change from Baseline Self-management, self-efficacy by the Self Efficacy Scale and Readiness to change by the Readiness to Change Scale to 60 months		Up to 1 year
Primary	Change from Patient enablement measured by the Chinese (HK) Patient Enablement Instrument at 60 months		Up to 60 months
Secondary	Change from Baseline Health Status (global health, mental health) measured by DASS at 60 month		Up to 60 months
Secondary	Change from Baseline Health-related quality of Life measured by the Chinese (HK) SF-12v2 Health Survey at 60 months		Up to 60 months
Secondary	Change from Baseline Lifestyle to 60 months	Number of participants with unhealthy lifestyle	Up to 60 months
Secondary	Change from Baseline Health parameters to 60 months	Including blood pressure, body mass index; lipids and blood glucose, for adults only; vitamin D, iron, mercury and lead	Up to 60 months
Secondary	Change from Baseline Health service utilization pattern to 60 months	Having a family doctor, self-care, use of Accident and Emergency service	Up to 60 months