Clinical trial NCT04470960: Evaluation of a Health Promoting Community Center Network (HPCCN) Innovation.
Official title: Evaluation of a Health Promoting Community Center Network (HPCCN) Innovation
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: A Community Center as a Health Promoting Setting
Keywords: Community Centre
Healthy setting
Health promotion
framework formation
Lead sponsor: Hadassah Medical Organization
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Ministry of Health, Israel
First posted: 2020-07-14
Enrollment: 22
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 6
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: A framework is being evaluated in order to assess if a Community center has the capacity of serving as a healthy setting.
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: 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.

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.

Eligibility criteria: 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

Primary outcomes:
measure: project planning, implementation and assessment
timeFrame: 3 years
measure: Israeli Healthy Cities Network adapted measure
timeFrame: 12 months after intervention initiation
Secondary outcomes:
measure: European Quality Instrument for Health Promotion
timeFrame: 6 months after intervention initiation
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Jerusalem
country: Israel
facility: Hadassah Medical Organization
Study officials:
References:
citation: 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.