Healthy Community Pilot Project RCT Study

Community-based Mental Wellness Project for Adolescents and Adults: Healthy Community Pilot Project RCT Study

Aims: To enhance mental well-being of adolescents, adults and their families by creating a positive, happy and joyful environment in the community.

Targets: Adults aged 18-59 and their family members in Hong Kong.

Methods: Healthy Community Pilot Project will adopt the public health and family-focused approach, under the brand name of "Joyful@HK Campaign". Evidence-based and Evidence Generating approach with vigorous study design, both qualitative (e.g. focus groups) and quantitative (e.g. randomised controlled trial), will be used to evaluate the overall programme effectiveness including follow-up of at least one month ("best science"). To ensure the practicability and sustainability of the community-based engagement project, we will engage community partners with strong track records of "best practice" to design, plan, and implement the intervention. This project will use innovative and integrated positive psychology and public health theories and methods to plan brief, simple, and cost-effective intervention.

Significance: By using "best science" in the design and evaluation of intervention programme, and the "best practice" of the partners' skills, experience and strong connection with service targets in the community, the intervention, if proven to be effective, for promoting sharing, mind and enjoyment and enhancing mental well-being can be further developed and widely disseminated to and adopted by the practitioners in the health and social service sectors for replication and improvement to benefit the whole population.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Mental Well-being; Happiness
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: SME family based physical activity; Behavioral: Gathering activity

Detailed Description

Healthy Community Pilot Project is one of the six Community-based Mental Wellness Project for Adolescents and Adults, which aims at enhancing mental well-being of adolescents, adults and their families by creating a positive, happy and joyful environment in the community. The project is funded by Health Care and Promotion Fund of Food and Health Bureau.

Healthy Community Pilot Project is organized by the Hong Kong Council of Social Service and led by the School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong.The project will organize one train-the-trainer workshop to train the service providers from 8-10 NGO service units on the concept of sharing, mind and enjoyment (SME), ways of conducting SME family-based physical activities and knowledge of adult mental health problem (in particular the mixed anxiety and depressive disorder). Two SME family-based physical activities will be held by the NGO service providers in collaboration with 3 District Healthy City Committees. Each NGO service unit may organize enjoyable SME family-based physical activities according to the needs of individual district and to promote positive psychology under the theme of Sharing, Mind and Enjoyment. One wisdom sharing session will be organized to members of District Healthy City Committees to promote best practice of community mental wellness project.

The major subjects of the Healthy Community Pilot Project RCT study are 150-200 families with 400 participants. 3 District Healthy City Committees will be selected as collaborators. 10-18 NGO service units will either be randomized into intervention service units and control service units. Cluster Randomized Control Trial will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention programme.

In the study, families will be invited to complete a series of questionnaires or invited to attend focus groups to measure the sharing, mind and enjoyment related behavioural changes, mental well-being and subjective changes. NGO workers who joined the train-the-trainer workshop will also be invited to complete questionnaires to measure their knowledge about mental health, skills of conducting SME family-based physical activities and their sharing, mind and enjoyment related behavioural change. They will be invited to focus group interview to assess their experience and feedback on this project while community partners will be invited to individual in-depth interviews to assess the outcomes of community engagement process.

HKU team will conduct evaluation during the programme implementation stage. The effectiveness of the intervention, as well as the level of participation and ratings for the intervention will also be evaluated.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 342
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    • The Hong Kong Council of Social Service

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 6 years and older (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT, CHILD)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Families (Major subjects):

   • Adults aged 18-59 and their family members (Their family members could be children)
   • Chinese speaking
   • Able to complete study questionnaires/ focus groups

2. Service providers of NGO service units

   • Staff working in the participating NGO service units
   • Adults aged 18-59
   • Chinese speaking
   • Able to complete study questionnaires/ focus group

3. Community partners

   • Staff working in the collaborating NGO service units or District Healthy City Committees in partnership with HKU research team to organize or plan or implement the project
   • Chinese speaking
   • Able to complete study questionnaires/ individual in-depth interviews

Exclusion Criteria:

• Those who cannot read Chinese
• Those who suffered from severe mental disorders

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: PREVENTION
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Interventional Model: PARALLEL
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: SME family based physical activity; Adults and family members will participate into one core session and one booster session	Behavioral: SME family based physical activity; One train-the-trainer workshop: to train the service providers from 8-15 NGO service units on the concept of SME, ways of conducting mental well-being activities and knowledge of adult mental health problem (in particular the mixed anxiety and depressive disorder).; Two SME family-based physical activities held by each NGO service unit: to organize enjoyable activities according to the needs of individual district as well as to promote positive psychology under the theme of SME. All these activities are organized by the NGO service providers in collaboration with District Healthy City Committee.
Active Comparator: Gathering activity; Adults and family members will participate into two gathering activities	Behavioral: Gathering activity; - Gathering activities will be held for control groups. However, SME concept or techniques will not be introduced during the activity. Physical activity will not be used as the intervention method.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Changes in participants' frequency of performing the suggested Sharing, Mind and Enjoyment (SME) related behaviours	The frequency of performing the SME (Sharing: encourage families to do physical activity, encourage families to do zero-time exercise, do physical activity with families; Mind: have intention, goal and confidence to do physical activity; Enjoyment: enjoy physical activity) related behaviours in the past 7 days will be assessed. The questions are rated 0-7 with 0 indicating none of this behavior happened in the past 7 days and 7 indicating this behavior happened every day in the past 7 days.	T1: baseline; T3: one-month follow-up after baseline; T4: three-month follow up after baseline

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Changes in mental well-being from baseline to three-month after baseline	Mental well-being will be assessed by validated Chinese version of 7-item Warwick Edinburgh Well-being Scale. Each item ranges from 1 to 5 and the scale will be scored by first summing the score for each of the 7 items and then transforming the total score for each person according to a conversion table.	T1: baseline; T3: one-month follow-up after baseline; T4: three-month follow up after baseline
Changes in family relationship from baseline to three-month after baseline	Self-perceived understanding, intimacy, and family communication will be assessed by three questions (rated 0-10).	T1: baseline; T3: one-month follow-up after baseline; T4: three-month follow up after baseline
Changes in individual and family health from baseline to three-month after baseline	Self-perceived health, at the individual and family level will be assessed by two questions respectively (rated 0-10).	T1: baseline; T3: one-month follow-up after baseline; T4: three-month follow up after baseline
Changes in family harmony from baseline to three-month after baseline	Self-perceived family harmony will be assessed by a single question (rated 0-10).	T1: baseline; T3: one-month follow-up after baseline; T4: three-month follow up after baseline
Changes in knowledge and perception of mixed anxiety and depressive disorders	Knowledge and perception of mixed anxiety and depressive disorders will be assessed by 4 questions (2 questions about understanding of symptoms, 1 about the intention of help seeking, 1 about support seeking from families) rated 0-10.	T1: baseline; T2: immediate post intervention; T3: one-month follow-up after baseline; T4: three-month follow up after baseline
The social impact of the community-based engagement project	The social impact of the community-based engagement project will be evaluated by conducting community stakeholders' in-depth interviews.	Up to four months
The process of community based intervention programme	Assessed by a Process Evaluation on-site observation form, and a series of checklists including Resources input record sheet, Participants' attendance form, Programme rundown, Attendance record form, and NGOs' final report. The components of process evaluation, including context, reach, dose delivered, dose received, fidelity and recruitment will be assessed.	Up to four months
Outcomes of community engagement process	Outcomes of community engagement process will be assessed by a self-designed questionnaire survey.	Up to four months
Changes in personal happiness from baseline to three-month after baseline	Personal happiness will be assessed by Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS). SHS was rated on 7-point scale with 1 indicating not happiness at all and 7 indicating extreme happiness. To score the scale, the 4th item will be coded reversely and mean of the 4 items will be computed.	T1: baseline; T3: one-month follow-up after baseline; T4: three-month follow up after baseline
Changes in individual and family happiness from baseline to three-month after baseline	Self-perceived happiness, at the individual and family level will be assessed by two questions respectively (rated 0-10).	T1: baseline; T3: one-month follow-up after baseline; T4: three-month follow up after baseline
Satisfaction towards SME physical activity training & program	Satisfaction towards programme will be assessed by conducting focus group and program evaluation measures (general satisfaction, self-perceived helpfulness and likely-to-recommend level) rated 0-10.	T2: immediate post intervention; T3: one-month follow-up after baseline

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: The University of Hong Kong
• Collaborators: The Hong Kong Council of Social Service
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Man Ping Wang, The University of Hong Kong

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 1, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 30, 2018
• Study Completion (Actual): November 30, 2018

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 29, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 1, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): November 6, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): January 23, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 21, 2019
• Last Verified: January 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Mental health; Mental well-being; Community-based engagement; Positive psychology; Public health approach
• Other Study ID Numbers: SPH-MHP-HKCSS01

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No