An interventional study of Trekkers Family Health Empowerment Programme in Quality of Life and Empowerment, 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 2024-12-17.
Sponsored by The University of Hong Kong · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other
Kerry Group Kuok Foundation Limited (KGKF) has initiated the Trekkers Family Project that aims to enable low-income families to develop their full potentials by providing support and opportunities in education, employment, environmental harmony and health. Health is an essential component to enable a person to develop his/her full potential. This study looks into one of the key elements, health, of members of low-income families and the effect of health education, health enablement and mutual health support on health and social outcomes. It is a cohort study of around 800 subjects from 200 families of the Trekkers Family Project, and around 800 subjects not included in the Trekkers Family Project in Hong Kong, recruited base on pre-defined inclusion criteria. Health empowerment interventions consisting of three inter-related programmes, namely, the Health Literacy, the Self-care Enablement, and the Health Ambassador Programmes.
The Health Literacy Programme aims to improve the knowledge on health and health services in order to promote health, prevent disease, and the proper use of services. It consists of four seminars per year on common health problems, mental health and cognitive health, etc.
The Self-Care Enablement Programme is to enable participants to keep themselves healthy, to build up self-efficacy and proper help-seeking skills, and to generate a spirit of mutual support among families. Two programmes will be delivered yearly, each with six 2.5 hour workshops facilitated by professional and lay leaders.
The Health Ambassador Programme aims to train up a group of adults recruited from the Trekkers families to act as a lay-advisor to other families on health issues. Participants who have completed the Health Literacy and Self-care Enablement programme will be given priority to take part in the Health Ambassador training programme.
The outcome measures are health enablement, health status, health-related quality of life, life style, cardiovascular risk factors, illnesses rates, and health service utilization pattern. All subjects in the cohort study will be surveyed on enrolment, and then yearly for 5 years. An age-gender appropriate health assessment will be carried out at baseline and at the end of five years for each subject. Changes in the outcomes will be evaluated and compared between groups. The impact of the health intervention programmes will be assessed.
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Intervention group (inclusion criteria of Trekkers Families)
Control group
Exclusion Criteria:
Behavioral: Trekkers Family Health Empowerment Programme
Health Assessment, Health Enablement and Health Literacy provided to empower participants awareness towards a healthier life style
Also known as: Trekkers Family
Change from Patient enablement measured by the Chinese (HK) Patient Enablement Instrument at 60 months
Patient Enablement Instrument-version 2 (PEI-2), score range 5 to 30, higher scores mean better enablement.
Time frame: Up to 60 months
Change from Baseline Health Status (global health, mental health) measured by DASS at 60 month
Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS), three subscales, each with a score range of 0 to 42, higher scores mean more emotional problems.
Time frame: Up to 60 months
Change from Baseline Health-related quality of Life at 60 months
12-item Short Form Health Survey-version 2 (SF-12v2) in adults: Physical Component Summary and Mental Component Summary scores, norm-based with a population mean of 50 and SD of 10, higher score means better quality of life. Child Health Questionnaire-Parent Form-28 items: Total Difficulty summary score ranges from 0-40, higher scores mean more behavioral difficulties; a prosocial scale score ranges from 0 to 10, higher scores mean better behavior.
Time frame: Up to 60 months
Change from Baseline Lifestyle to 60 months
proportion of participants with unhealthy lifestyle including smoking, \<150min/wk of exercises, consumption of surgery drinks, smoking cigarettes, consumption of less than 5 portions of fruits and vegetables.
Time frame: Up to 60 months
Change from Baseline Health parameters to 60 months
Cardiovascular Health Index (CVHI) measured by optimal blood pressure, body mass index, blood cholesterol, blood glucose, smoking status, physical activity, and fruit and vegetable intake, score ranges from 0 to 7, higher scores mean better CVH.
Time frame: Up to 60 months
Change from Baseline Health service utilization pattern to 60 months
Proportion of people who reported to Have a family doctor, self-care for an illness, use of Accident and Emergency service during an illness episode.
Time frame: Up to 60 months
Change from Baseline Health knowledge test to 60 months
pre and post knowledge test after each health education course.
Time frame: Up to 1 year
Overall satisfaction after program
Proportion of participants who reported overall satisfaction with the program.
Time frame: Up to 1 year
Plan to share: No
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