Data Health VET - Data-driven Health Promotion at Vocational Education and Training Schools

NCT ID: NCT05308459

Last Updated: 2024-04-16

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 1370 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-01-19
• Study Completion Date: 2025-06-30

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of a data driven and dynamic systems approach at Danish Vocational schools to promote student health behavior and wellbeing and school organizational readiness.

Detailed Description

Background:

Recent evidence shows that vocational education and training (VET) school students exhibits significant risk behaviors in terms of poor diet, frequent smoking, low levels of physical activity and poor mental health.

Health behavior constitutes a complex problem that is influenced by underlying, dynamic mechanisms and determinants at multiple levels. A system perspective is an evidence-based approach that has the potential to address and initiate sustainable changes to complex health problems, but studies are needed to translate, test, and adapt such evidence-based methods to the VET school setting.

Objective:

Data driven Health promotion at Vocational Education and Training schools (the Data Health VET study) aims to develop a sustainable model to promote health and wellbeing among vocational school students. The objective of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of the model.

Design:

A non-randomized clustered stepped-wedge design will be applied. Eight intervention schools will be included in two steps:

Step 1: early starters (January 2022) Step 2: late starters (August 2022).

Intervention:

The intervention consists of the following steps:

1. A local health profile is conducted among all students

2. Results are shortly hereafter presented and discussed with all student and staff, and the school decide what health problem they will work with during the next year

3. A participatory group model process based on a dynamic systems approach is conducted to develop sustainable and system changing activities to address the chosen health problem

4. The activities are implemented

5. A new health profile is conducted to a) evaluate the effects of the implemented activities and to b) determine if a new health problem warrant focus and new activities are needed (the process repeats itself).

Participants:

The eight intervention schools are located in the capital region of Denmark and Region Zealand and have been recruited so each region participates with one school from each of four, main vocational educational tracks: 1) technical (e.g. electrician), 2) business (e.g. office assistant), 3) agriculture and food service (e.g. farmer or chef) and 4) social and health service (e.g. health service assistant). Across the eight intervention schools the target population is estimated to be at student level n=1800, staff members and mangers: n≈160, other involved local partners (n≈80). All are eligible for both intervention and evaluation.

Study measures:

The study investigates 1) changes in student's health behaviour and wellbeing and 2) changes in organizational motivation and capacity to work with and implement health promotion initiatives. The primary and secondary student outcome measure for each cluster depends on the chosen health promotion theme. Moreover, the study explores if the intervention influences different student health promotion outcomes (e.g. health literacy, motivation, knowledge).

Data Health VET will provide solid evidence of the effects of the Data Health VET model, which is needed in practice to inform the scale-up of the model to other VET schools or settings. The study is conducted in partnership between the applying institutions and the participating schools and municipalities through all phases.

Conditions

Food Habits; Physical Inactivity; Smoking Behaviors; Drug Use; Alcohol Consumption; Wellbeing

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: SEQUENTIAL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Step 1: Allocated to start the Data Health VET intervention phase January 2022

Participants receive the Data Health VET intervention in all its steps starting in January 2022

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Data-driven health promotion at Vocational Education and Training schools (Data Health VET)

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The intervention consists of the following steps:

1. A local health profile is conducted among all students

2. Results are shortly hereafter presented and discussed with all student and staff, and the school decide what health problem they will work with during the next year

3. A participatory group model process based on a dynamic systems approach is conducted to develop sustainable and system changing activities to address the chosen health problem

4. The activities are implemented

5. A new health profile is conducted to a) evaluate the effects of the implemented activities and to b) determine if a new health problem warrant focus and new activities are needed (the process repeats itself).

Step 2: Allocated to start the Data Health VET intervention phase August, 2022

Participants receive the Data Health VET intervention in all its steps starting in August 2022

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Data-driven health promotion at Vocational Education and Training schools (Data Health VET)

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The intervention consists of the following steps:

1. A local health profile is conducted among all students

2. Results are shortly hereafter presented and discussed with all student and staff, and the school decide what health problem they will work with during the next year

3. A participatory group model process based on a dynamic systems approach is conducted to develop sustainable and system changing activities to address the chosen health problem

4. The activities are implemented

5. A new health profile is conducted to a) evaluate the effects of the implemented activities and to b) determine if a new health problem warrant focus and new activities are needed (the process repeats itself).

Interventions

Data-driven health promotion at Vocational Education and Training schools (Data Health VET)

The intervention consists of the following steps:

1. A local health profile is conducted among all students

2. Results are shortly hereafter presented and discussed with all student and staff, and the school decide what health problem they will work with during the next year

3. A participatory group model process based on a dynamic systems approach is conducted to develop sustainable and system changing activities to address the chosen health problem

4. The activities are implemented

5. A new health profile is conducted to a) evaluate the effects of the implemented activities and to b) determine if a new health problem warrant focus and new activities are needed (the process repeats itself).

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• All employees at the participating schools
• All students who are at the school at the time for data collection
• Participants who have provided written informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria

• Schools which do not develop and implement any activities that aim to promote health among the students will be excluded from the analysis on student level but will be included in the analysis on organizational level.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 15 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Steno Diabetes Center Sjaelland

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Southern Denmark

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Charlotte Demant Klinker

Senior researcher

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Charlotte D Klinker, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen

Locations

Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen

Herlev, , Denmark

Steno Diabetes Center Zealand

Holbæk, , Denmark

Countries

Denmark

References

Heinze C, Hartmeyer RD, Sidenius A, Ringgaard LW, Bjerregaard AL, Krolner RF, Allender S, Bauman A, Klinker CD. Developing and Evaluating a Data-Driven and Systems Approach to Health Promotion Among Vocational Students: Protocol for the Data Health Study. JMIR Res Protoc. 2024 Feb 6;13:e52571. doi: 10.2196/52571.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 38319698 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

Data Health VET

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id