Evaluation of a Health Promoting Community Center Network (HPCCN) Innovation. (HPCCN)

Evaluation of a Health Promoting Community Center Network (HPCCN) Innovation

The purpose of this research study is to design, implement and evaluate the setting for a "Healthy Community Center". This is a program review of a program which will be planned in a community based participatory level, based on the socioecological model. A pre-post design will be utilized where all community centers in the study will be exposed to the intervention components. It is hypothesized that community centers who will receive the intervention will have better skills at building sustainable participatory effective health promotion projects and will provide a healthy setting for the community within its juristiction.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: A Community Center as a Health Promoting Setting
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Training course for the community center health coordinators

Detailed Description

The purpose of this research study is to design, implement and evaluate the setting for a "Healthy Community Center". This is a program review of a program which will be planned in a community based participatory level, based on the socioecological model. A pre-post design will be utilized where all community centers in the study will be exposed to the intervention components. All community centers (n=15) will be evaluated by pre intervention questionairres and focus groups of community center Managers and health promotion professionals. The network will be designed upon the foundation of the "Healthy Cities network" with adaptations made in the process of participatory planning and designing according to the results of the focus groups. Intervention will include a a 12 week training session for designated "Health Coordinator" from each community center, Planning and implementing a personolized Health promtion Project in each community centre .It is hypothesized that community centers who will receive the intervention will have better skills at building sustainable participatory effective health promotion projects and will provide a healthy setting for the community within its juristiction.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 22
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Israel
  • Jerusalem, Israel, 91120
    • Hadassah Medical Organization

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 6 years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: Female

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• People who live within the geographical area of the community centers

Exclusion Criteria:

• Children under the age of 6 People who do not reside within the geographical area of the community centers

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: participating community centers; Training course for the community center health coordinators Professional guidance for the CC health coordinators

Behavioral: Training course for the community center health coordinators; These community centers who have volunteered to join the project will receive a 12 week training session which includes the values and principles of health promotion and the principles of building a health promotion project. The participants will be requested to build a health promotion project within their community. Building and implementing the project will be assisted by a health promotion specialist. Each health promotion project will be evaluated according to the principles of health promotion.; Other Names: Professional guidance for the CC health coordinators

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
project planning, implementation and assessment	RE-AIM assessment of Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation and Maintenance of the Community Center Programs, assessed by interview, There are 4-6 tailored questions in each domain and the answers are coded as yes, partially and no. Scores range from 0 -93	3 years
Israeli Healthy Cities Network adapted measure	Israeli Healthy Cities Network evaluation tool was designed based on the MARI's (Monitoring Accountability Reporting Impact assessment) framework. It assesses six dimensions of the principles and strategies of the Healthy Cities work: (i) Equity policy and political support. (ii) Management. (iii) Health promotion programs and activities in the city. (iv) Community participation. (v) Intersectoral partnerships (vi) Environmental protection activities. This questionnaire was adapted to a community center framework.	12 months after intervention initiation

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
European Quality Instrument for Health Promotion	information on four domains using in-person interviews: (i) compliance with international principles of Health promotion programs, (ii) development and implementation, (iii) project management and (iv) sustainability of programs. each item of the EQUIHP tool was recoded on a scale of 0-1: a score of 0 if the criteria was identified as not fulfilled, 0.5 if partly fulfilled and 1 if fully fulfilled. The sum of all valid scores per programme was divided by the number of valid answers to give the mean score. A mean score was given for each of the four domains, and for the overall score in the same manner. Higher scores are better.	6 months after intervention initiation

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hadassah Medical Organization
• Collaborators: Ministry of Health, Israel

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Barasche-Berdah D, Wetzler S, Greenshtein I, Greenberg KL, Leiter E, Donchin M, Zwas DR. Municipal community centers as healthy settings: evaluation of a real-world health promotion intervention in Jerusalem. BMC Public Health. 2022 Oct 7;22(1):1870. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14220-7.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): December 11, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): January 1, 2021
• Study Completion (Actual): November 24, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 1, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 12, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): July 14, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): November 26, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 24, 2021
• Last Verified: November 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Health promotion; Community Centre; Healthy setting; framework formation
• Other Study ID Numbers: ccproject-HMO-CTIL

Drug and device information, study documents

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