Training Program for Community Health Campaign: Fitter Families Project
Condition: Motor Activity
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      In recent years, Hong Kong has been undergoing rapid changes with macro social and economic
      trends. The increasingly complex and diverse family structure contribute to concerns
      regarding the well-being of families in Hong Kong, including their health, happiness and
      harmony (FAMILY 3Hs). Family life and health education should be strengthened to meet the
      increasing needs of promoting healthy active lifestyle among Hong Kong families. In this
      connection, the FAMILY Project initiates the Fitter Families Project (FFP) with a focus on
      "FAMILY Holistic Health", will be conducted in order to increase the awareness of the
      importance of FAMILY 3Hs. FFP is a community-based research project with 3 main components -
      train-the-trainer program, community-based family interventions and public education events.
      It is expected that trainees from the train-the-trainer program will acquire adequate skills
      to organize community-based health education programs effectively. Participants of the
      community-based family interventions will gain knowledge on family holistic health and live a
      healthy active lifestyle. Attendees of the public education events will become more aware of
      the importance of FAMILY 3Hs.
    

Detailed description: 
      In 2011, United Nations (UN) addressed the prevention and control of four non-communicable
      diseases (NCDs: cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, and diabetes
      mellitus) worldwide. The UN, in its Political Declaration, recognized the critical importance
      of reducing the exposure to the common modifiable risk factors for NCDs, namely, tobacco use,
      unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, and the harmful use of alcohol.In Hong Kong, NCDs are
      responsible for more than 85% of all deaths and most of these are preventable. FAMILY Project
      Cohort Study (2014) also found that 88.6% of Hong Kong people had inadequate vegetable and
      fruit intake, 70.6% had inadequate physical exercise, 26.4% were overweight and 5.4% were
      obese.

      Families worldwide have been undergoing rapid changes with macro, social and economic trends.
      Demographic shifts, economic upheavals, changing societal norms and values, immigration
      across national borders and migration within nations are creating new and altered structures,
      processes and relationships within families. The increasingly complex and diverse family
      structure contributes to concerns regarding the well-being of families in Hong Kong,
      including their health, happiness and harmony (FAMILY 3Hs). Family life and health education
      should be strengthened to meet the increasing needs of promoting healthy lifestyle among Hong
      Kong families.

      The Fitter Families Project is developed based on the strong foundation of the Learning
      Families Project in the previous years. In view of the health challenges locally and
      globally, the new phase of FAMILY project will put more emphasis on health in the upcoming
      three years. Following the themes on FAMILY health, happiness and harmony (3Hs), the Fitter
      Families Project focuses on family holistic health with emphasis on the interaction and
      integration of both physical and psychosocial health.

      As an initial step of this project, the investigators conducted a need assessments before
      designing and conducting a train-the-trainer program. The train-the-trainer program aimed to
      prepare the staff and lay volunteers to conduct and or assist to implement a series of
      community-based activities and interventions for the participants of Fitter Families Project.
      Focus group interviews were conducted to obtain feedback and opinion from the trainees .
      Questionnaire assessments were conducted before, immediately after finishing the training,
      three months after training.
    

Intervention name(s): Training group
Intervention type(s): Behavioral
Intervention description(s): The training workshop includes four two-hour sessions:
Session one - a knowledge, self-efficacy, and motivation enhancement session at baseline; Session two - an interpersonal communication and leadership skills session at one week; Session three - a motivation enhancement session at one month Session four - an experience sharing session at three months
Intervention model: Single Group Assignment
Intervention model description: A four-session training workshop is provided to the trainees in order to enhance their competence and performance for conducing and/or assisting the implementation of community -based interventions and activities.
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary purpose: Prevention