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

Hadassah Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: A Community Center as a Health Promoting Setting

Treatments: Behavioral: Training course for the community center health coordinators

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04470960

ccproject-HMO-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 6+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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22 participants in 1 patient group

participating community centers

Experimental group

Description:

Training course for the community center health coordinators Professional guidance for the CC health coordinators

Treatment:

Behavioral: Training course for the community center health coordinators