Healthy Community Pilot Project RCT Study

Summary

Aims: To enhance mental well-being of adolescents, adults and their families by creating a positive, happy and joyful environment in the community.

Targets: Adults aged 18-59 and their family members in Hong Kong.

Methods: Healthy Community Pilot Project will adopt the public health and family-focused approach, under the brand name of "Joyful@HK Campaign". Evidence-based and Evidence Generating approach with vigorous study design, both qualitative (e.g. focus groups) and quantitative (e.g. randomised controlled trial), will be used to evaluate the overall programme effectiveness including follow-up of at least one month ("best science"). To ensure the practicability and sustainability of the community-based engagement project, we will engage community partners with strong track records of "best practice" to design, plan, and implement the intervention. This project will use innovative and integrated positive psychology and public health theories and methods to plan brief, simple, and cost-effective intervention.

Significance: By using "best science" in the design and evaluation of intervention programme, and the "best practice" of the partners' skills, experience and strong connection with service targets in the community, the intervention, if proven to be effective, for promoting sharing, mind and enjoyment and enhancing mental well-being can be further developed and widely disseminated to and adopted by the practitioners in the health and social service sectors for replication and improvement to benefit the whole population.

Conditions

• Mental Well-being
• Happiness

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

SME family based physical activity

* One train-the-trainer workshop: to train the service providers from 8-15 NGO service units on the concept of SME, ways of conducting mental well-being activities and knowledge of adult mental health problem (in particular the mixed anxiety and depressive disorder). * Two SME family-based physical activities held by each NGO service unit: to organize enjoyable activities according to the needs of individual district as well as to promote positive psychology under the theme of SME. All these activities are organized by the NGO service providers in collaboration with District Healthy City Committee.

BEHAVIORAL

Gathering activity

\- Gathering activities will be held for control groups. However, SME concept or techniques will not be introduced during the activity. Physical activity will not be used as the intervention method.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The Hong Kong Council of Social Service

  collaborator OTHER

• The University of Hong Kong

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Man Ping Wang · The University of Hong Kong

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

6 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2017-10-01

Primary Completion

2018-06-30

Completion

2018-11-30

Countries

• Hong Kong

Study Locations