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

NCT ID: NCT03918720

Last Updated: 2024-12-17

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

1200 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2013-02-01

Study Completion Date

2023-06-30

Brief Summary

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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.

Detailed Description

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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.

Conditions

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Quality of Life Empowerment

Keywords

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Quality of Life Empowerment Low-income Families Parent-child health relationship

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Trekkers

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Trekkers Family Health Empowerment Programme

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Health Assessment, Health Enablement and Health Literacy provided to empower participants awareness towards a healthier life style

Controls

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Trekkers Family Health Empowerment Programme

Health Assessment, Health Enablement and Health Literacy provided to empower participants awareness towards a healthier life style

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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Trekkers Family

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

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.
Minimum Eligible Age

6 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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The University of Hong Kong

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Professor Cindy L.K. Lam

Danny D B Ho Professor in Family Medicine and Department Head

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Cindy Lo Kuen Lam

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

The University of Hong Kong

Locations

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The University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong, , Hong Kong

Site Status

Countries

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Hong Kong

Related Links

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http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2015.09.2872

HRQOL of people from low-income families

http://doi.org/10.15212/FMCH.2016.0124

Correlation of HRQOL between mothers and children

http://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-017-1664-8

Effect of intimate partner abuse on behaviour and HRQOL of children

http://doi.org/10.1007/s40271-018-0314-8

Maternal chronic disease and HRQOL of children

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09655-9

Mobile app on parent-child exercises improves physical activity in children

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2024.108240

Health empowerment program improves cardiovascular health

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-024-00834-9

Health empowerment program improves HRQOL and behaviour in children

Other Identifiers

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UW 12-517

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id