Clinical trial NCT02645500: Training Program and Mobile Health Message on Promoting Family Holistic Health
Official title: The Efficacy of Training Programme and Mobile Health Message on Promoting Family Holistic Health
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Physical Activity
Health Behavior
Quality of Life
Keywords: Physical Activity
Family well-being
Lead sponsor: The University of Hong Kong
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust
First posted: 2016-01-01
Enrollment: 240
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 100
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: In this study, the investigators would use the training workshops as a capacity build method to deliver the holistic health knowledge for the trainers and ambassadors implementing and assisting the community-based programs for the public. The investigators hypothesize that the training workshops and mobile health messages would promote the health awareness and the health of the participants. The investigators would expect the participants influence the health behavior and attitude of their family members.

Detailed description: Holistic health is an integration and interaction of physical and psychosocial health. Positive psychology is a science of happiness, which focuses on positive emotions and personal strengths. It is used as a preventive and complementary medicine, which also is crucial component in family holistic health (happiness, harmony and health). Healthy diet can help to achieve energy balance and healthy weights. Sufficient daily consumption of fruit and vegetables, as well as limitation on the intake of sugar, salt and fat could prevent major diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases and certain cancers. Physical activity is believed to contribute to physical and mental health, as well as social well-being. However, physical inactivity was found to be a local and worldwide issue. and most Hong Kong people are having sedentary lifestyle. Studies show that the increase of physical activity and healthy diet reduce the risk of chronic diseases, and improve cardio-pulmonary functions; whereas sedentary behaviors increase the risk.

The Project team will schedule the training workshops for the trainers and ambassadors implementing and assisting community-based programs for the public. The investigators hypothesize that the training workshops and mobile health messages would promote the health awareness and the health of the participants. The investigators hypothesize that the training workshops promote the participants' knowledge and enhance the participants' behaviors related to family holistic health, such as positive psychology, physical activity and healthy diet. The investigators would expect the participants influence the health attitude of their family members.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Chinese speaking
* able to complete study questionnaire

Exclusion Criteria:

* not fit the inclusion criteria

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in knowledge in relation to physical activity
timeFrame: Baseline and one month
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in knowledge in relation to physical activity
timeFrame: Baseline, immediately after core session, one month, and three months
measure: Change in attitude on performing physical activity
timeFrame: Baseline, immediately after core session, one month, and three months
measure: Change in health behaviour in relation to physical activity
timeFrame: Baseline, immediately after core session, one month, and three months
measure: Change in quality of life
timeFrame: Baseline, one month and three months
measure: Change in personal happiness
timeFrame: Baseline, one month and three months
measure: Change in personal health
timeFrame: Baseline, one month and three months
measure: Change in family well-being
timeFrame: Baseline, one month and three months
measure: Change in knowledge sharing with family members in relation of physical activity
timeFrame: Baseline, one month, three months
measure: Change in knowledge sharing with family members in relation of healthy diet
timeFrame: Baseline, one month, three months
measure: Change in behavior to appraise family members
timeFrame: Baseline, one month, three months
measure: Change in health behavior of performing physical activity with family members
timeFrame: Baseline, one month, three months
measure: Change in health behavior of taking healthy diet with family members
timeFrame: Baseline, one month, three months
measure: Change in physical fitness
timeFrame: Baseline, one month
measure: Change in physical fitness
timeFrame: Baseline, one month
measure: Change in physical fitness
timeFrame: Baseline, one month
measure: Change in physical fitness
timeFrame: Baseline, one month
measure: Change in physical fitness
timeFrame: Baseline, one month
measure: Change in physical fitness
timeFrame: Baseline, one month
measure: Satisfaction towards training program
timeFrame: immediately after core session, immediately after one-month booster session
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Hong Kong
country: Hong Kong
facility: The Boys' and girls' association of Hong Kong
Study officials:
affiliation: The University of Hong Kong
name: Agnes YK Lai, DN
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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