WHO-HPH Recognition Project on Fast-Track Implementation of Clinical Health Promotion (RP)

June 14, 2022 updated by: Hanne Tonnesen, Bispebjerg Hospital

WHO-HPH Recognition Project on Fast-Track Implementation of Clinical Health Promotion - a Multi-Centre RCT

The project's background is the notion that patient centred clinical health promotion has been shown to significantly improve both outcomes and patient safety. Accordingly, the WHO describes health promotion as a key dimension of quality in hospitals, and the organization has developed standards on the topic in order to help hospital management and staff members to assess and improve the quality of health care and thereby achieve better health for patients, staff, and community. Even so, however, health promotion is still a very implicit part of nearly all quality standards on hospitals. Moreover, assessing hospitals departments' health promotion performance is still quite an unexplored area. On this basis, this project will test a new recognition process that uses the relevant WHO-HPH tools and standards to assess performance, by way of explicit documentation and evaluation of clinical health promotion activity. The project is deigned as a RCT, with a control group that undergoes the recognition process immediately and a control group that continue usual clinical routine. Then, after one year, the control group also begins the recognition process (= delayed start), while the Intervention group (=immediate-start) continues with the recognition process. Doing this allows for a great array of measurements, and hopefully the project will then show whether the recognition process really benefits implementation of health promotion in hospitals and health services, and also, if this really generates better health gains for patients and staff. The outcome measurements will be frequency of health promotion services delivered on smoking, excessive alcohol use, overweight, malnutrition, and physical activity to patients in need. Such services could for instance be motivational counselling and brief interventions, as well as intervention, rehabilitation and after treatment. Physical, mental, and social health status among patients and staff will be measured by short form (SF36).

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

48

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Canada
      • Montreal, Canada
        • National HPH Network of Montreal, Canada
  • Croatia
      • Zagreb, Croatia
        • HPH Members in croatia
  • Czechia
      • Prague, Czechia, CZ-128 01
        • National HPH Network of the Czech Republic
  • Denmark
      • Middelfart, Denmark
        • HPH Members in Denmark
  • Estonia
      • Tallin, Estonia
        • National HPH Network of the Estonia
  • Indonesia
      • Jakarta, Indonesia
        • National HPH Network of Indonesia
  • Japan
      • Tokyo, Japan
        • National HPH Network of Japan
  • Malaysia
    • Pulau Pinang
      • George Town, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
        • HPH members in Malaysia
  • Slovenia
      • Golnik, Slovenia, SI-4204
        • National HPH Network of Slovenia
  • Taiwan
      • Taipei City, Taiwan, 11221
        • Regional HPH Network of Taiwan
  • Thailand
      • Bangkok, Thailand
        • HPH members in Thailand

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Clinical hospital departments from university hospitals
  • Clinical hospital departments from non-university hospitals

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Palliative care departments
  • Pediatric departments
  • Nursing homes
  • Non-hospital departments
  • Primary care facilities

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Prevention
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention Group
fast-track implementation process
Other: fast-track implementation process
Undergo fast-track implementation process (WHO-HPH recognition Process), including: baseline data collection, quality plan, implementation for one year, follow-up data collection, revision of quality plan, external site visit and data validation
No Intervention: Control Group
Continue usual routine

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Changed health gain of patients and staff
Time Frame: Baseline, after 1 year, after 2 years
Change in physical, mental, and social health status among patients and staff will be measured by short form (SF36).
Baseline, after 1 year, after 2 years

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Number of health promotion services delivered
Time Frame: Baseline, after 1 year, after 2 years
Change in the frequency of health promotion services delivered on smoking, excessive alcohol use, overweight, mal-nutrition, and physical activity to smoking, excessive drinking, overweight, malnourished, and physical inactive patients. These services concern clinical health promotion activities, like motivational counselling and brief interventions, as well as intervention, rehabilitation and after treatment.
Baseline, after 1 year, after 2 years

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Bispebjerg Hospital

Collaborators

World Health Organization
International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals & Health Services (HPH)
National HPH Network of Montreal, Canada
National HPH Network of the Czech Republic
National HPH Network of Slovenia
National HPH Network of Estonia
Regional HPH Network of Taiwan
National HPH Network of Indonesia
National HPH Network of Japan
HPH member hospitals in Denmark
HPH member hospitals in Croatia
HPH member hospitals in Malaysia
HPH member hospitals in Thailand

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Hanne Tonnesen, MD DMSc, Bispebjerg Frederiksberg Hospital

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Helpful Links

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

January 1, 2012

Primary Completion (Actual)

September 11, 2018

Study Completion (Actual)

September 11, 2018

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

March 22, 2012

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 23, 2012

First Posted (Estimate)

March 27, 2012

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

June 15, 2022

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 14, 2022

Last Verified

June 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • WHOHPHRP

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Study Data/Documents

  1. Country Article
    Information comments: Czech Republic
  2. Country Article
    Information comments: Taiwan

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