An interventional study of SME family based physical activity and Gathering activity in Mental Well-being and Happiness, sponsored by The University of Hong Kong. Completed at 1 site in Hong Kong. Open to participants aged 6 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-01-23.
Sponsored by The University of Hong Kong · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
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Among 20 studies in Psychological Well-Being by The University of Hong Kong — 9 open to participants now, 9 under way, none of them phase 3. Psychological Well-Being · The University of Hong Kong.
Among the 20 studies in Psychological Well-Being by The University of Hong Kong, this one is the 3rd largest by enrollment of the 18 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 5 that started in 2017, is one of 17 with no phase, and was the 5th registered.
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Ages 18–29
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Ages 45+ · Healthy volunteers
The University of Hong Kong · Sites in Hong Kong
Ages 10–35 · Healthy volunteers
The University of Hong Kong · Sites in Hong Kong
Ages 45–59
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Ages 18+ · Healthy volunteers
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Of the 401 Psychological Well-Being studies recruiting now, 218 (54%) set no upper age limit and 157 (39%) stop at 75 or younger; 120 take children under 18; 204 take healthy volunteers.
This study: 6 Years and older · all sexes · healthy volunteers too.
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First in 2002; this study’s year is marked. 5 started in 2017.
This study's enrollment of 342 is above the median of 110 across 1,798 interventional studies indexed under Psychological Well-Being.
Median enrollment 139 across the 18 interventional studies, 63 across the 2 observational. Of the 10 that completed or were terminated, 1 (10%) have results posted.
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The University of Hong Kong is the lead sponsor of 1,292 studies on the registry; 348 are open to participants now.
Of its 9 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 0 (0%) have results posted.
3 of the studies in Psychological Well-Being by The University of Hong Kong that are under way reach primary completion within a year, 0 of them phase 3. Phase 3 first, then by date:
| Study | Primary completion |
|---|---|
| NCT07064551The University of Hong KongEvaluation Study of Medical-Social Collaboration Model for Middle-aged and Older Adults With Depressive Symptoms | 2027-06 |
| NCT06658041The University of Hong KongCollaborative Stepped-care Intervention for Adults With Subthreshold Depressive Symptoms in the Primary Care Setting | 2027-06-30 |
| NCT07711769The University of Hong KongNurse-led Digital Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (dCBT-I) in University Students With Mild to Moderate Mental Health Problems | 2027-09-30 |
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Among the 20 studies in Psychological Well-Being by The University of Hong Kong, from their registry updates:
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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.
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.
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Families (Major subjects):
Service providers of NGO service units
Community partners
Exclusion Criteria:
Adults and family members will participate into one core session and one booster session
Behavioral: SME family based physical activity
Adults and family members will participate into two gathering activities
Behavioral: Gathering 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.
- 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.
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.
Time frame: T1: baseline; T3: one-month follow-up after baseline; T4: three-month follow up after baseline
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.
Time frame: T1: baseline; T3: one-month follow-up after baseline; T4: three-month follow up after baseline
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.
Time frame: 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).
Time frame: 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).
Time frame: 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).
Time frame: 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).
Time frame: 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.
Time frame: T1: baseline; T2: immediate post intervention; 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.
Time frame: T2: immediate post intervention; T3: one-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.
Time frame: 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.
Time frame: Up to four months
Outcomes of community engagement process
Outcomes of community engagement process will be assessed by a self-designed questionnaire survey.
Time frame: Up to four months
Plan to share: No
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Ran from Oct 2017 to primary completion in Jun 2018, 8 months.
Of 1,261 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Psychological Well-Being, half reached primary completion within 17 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 7 and three quarters within 34. This study's 8 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 1,304 studies reached it within 16 months; a quarter within 7 and three quarters within 34.
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