FamilyNCT02866773
A Community-based Family Holistic Health Promotion Project in Hong Kong: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (cRCT)
A study testing PA1: Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps group, PA2: Education sessions, Reminders and PA3: Education sessions, Whataps group in people with Family and Well-being, run by The University of Hong Kong at 1 site in Hong Kong.
Trial summary
In Hong Kong, nearly 40% of adults were overweight or obese, and about 60% of total registered deaths were due to four major preventable non-communicable diseases. Many residents are lack of attention to personal healthy lifestyle and family holistic health. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 12 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Family, Well-being, Physical Activity
- What is being tested?
- PA1: Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps group, PA2: Education sessions, Reminders and PA3: Education sessions, Whataps group
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 1,200 participants
- Where
- 1 siteHong Kong
- Study dates
- Jan 2016to Aug 2017
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 12 years and older
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Train-the-trainers and ambassador programs:
- Cantonese speaking
- Intact verbal and hearing abilities for interpersonal communication
- Reading and writing abilities for questionnaire completion
- Community leaders and health ambassadors
- Aged 18 or above
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- Community-based family interventions:
- Cantonese speaking
- Intact verbal and hearing abilities for interpersonal communication
- Reading and writing abilities for questionnaire completion
- Aged 12 or above
- Public education events:
- Reading and writing abilities for questionnaire completion
- Aged 12 or above
Who cannot join
- Participants who fail to meet the inclusion criteria, or are unable to sign the consent form.
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
Hong Kong1 site, 1 recruiting
- Recruiting
Hong Kong Island Women Association
Hong Kong Island, 852
Piana He, MSc, 3621-0102, hkiwassoc@yahoo.com.hk
About this study
Official title: Family Holistic Health Community Promotion, A Community-based Research to Promote Healthy Diet and Physical Activity in Hong Kong Island: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (cRCT)
In Hong Kong, nearly 40% of adults were overweight or obese, and about 60% of total registered deaths were due to four major preventable non-communicable diseases. Many residents are lack of attention to personal healthy lifestyle and family holistic health. This project focuses particularly on the promotion of healthy diet and physical activities enhancement in families through the well-established community network of the Hong Kong Island Women Association (HKIWA). This project includes three major components: Train-the-trainer and -ambassador workshop, community-based family interventions, and public education events. It is expected that knowledge and skills of the community leaders and ambassadors are strengthened through the 'Train-the-trainer and -ambassador' (TTTA) workshops. Furthermore, they are expected to help the implementation of community-based family interventions and public education events on the personal and family holistic health of the community participants.
Read the detailed description
According to World Health Organization (WHO), the prevalence of obesity among all nations has nearly doubled since 1980. High body mass index (BMI) is one of the major risk factors of many non-communicable diseases (NCD) and is the result of unhealthy diet and physical inactivity. In Hong Kong, the Department of Health (DH) found in 2012, through the telephone surveys, that nearly 40% of adults were overweight or obese. About 60% of total registered deaths in Hong Kong were due to four major preventable NCD, which were cancer, heart diseases, stroke and chronic lower respiratory diseases. Therefore, population-based interventions for collective health benefits, especially regarding weight management, are essential in lowering the risk of NCD in the total population.
Given the high proportion of overweight and obese individuals among the local population, achieving modest or even small behavioral changes in diet or activity could potentially lead to significant improvements in public health. Promotion of healthy diets and physical activity is one of the five recommended cost-effective interventions that have been addressed in The Lancet Series. The implementation of policies to promote healthy diets - reducing sugary beverages, in particular - and physical activity due to the likelihood of wide-ranging health gains, including prevention of overweight and cardiovascular disease, on a population level is advocated.
Facing the same challenges of the rest of the world that many residents are lacking of attention on healthy lifestyle, the Hong Kong SAR Government has a burden to improve the well-being of the general public. The Government has recently established a Committee on 'Reduction of Salt and Sugar in Food'. They will steer the direction, formulate and oversee the Action Plans for Salt and Sugar Reduction in Hong Kong. The aim is to reduce the intake of salt and sugar by residents to meet the WHO recommendations. The Centre for Food Safety showed that carbonated drinks and fruit juices were popular in Hong Kong. However, the added sugar does not have any nutritional value but increases the risk of overweight and obesity. Therefore, the promotion of healthy family diet is appropriate for improving a current public health situation in Hong Kong. On the other hand, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department have been jointed with the Department of Health to launch the 'Healthy Exercise for All Campaign' for raising the public's interest in exercising. However, none of the campaigns have addressed the problems and barriers of the sedentary people and their families. The barriers include myths and wrong perceptions, e.g.; exercise has to be difficult, or one has to find much time, spend much money and do lots of high intensive exercise to be beneficial.
This project is aimed to motivate participants to improve start with 'zero-time exercise' and reduce sugary beverages, which can be incorporated into daily life to reduce day-to-day sedentary time and sugar intake together with family members of all ages, that can then act as a trigger for active and healthy lifestyle. Few exercises can be done by the family members together. The investigators shall motivate participants to share what they have learned with their family members and to do 'zero-time exercise' and reduce sugary beverage's intake together. This project includes three major components: Train-the-trainer and -ambassador workshop, community-based family interventions, and public education events. Knowledge and skills of the community leaders and ambassadors will be strengthened through the 'Train-the-trainer and -ambassador' workshop. The trainees will be expected to help the implementation of community-based family interventions and public education events on the personal and family holistic health of the community participants.
Outcome and process evaluations will be used to assess the engagement, implementation and effectiveness of the project. Focus group and in-depth interviews will be conducted to obtain feedback, and opinion of the community leaders, ambassadors and community participants. Quantitative questionnaire assessments will be conducted at different time points to assess the effectiveness of the project on the key components of personal and family holistic health, and family well-being. The assessment time points are before and immediately after the core session, before and after the booster session at one month, three months, six months for community participants. An additional assessment for the community leaders and ambassadors is nine months.
- Conditions
- Family, Well-being, Physical Activity, Healthy Diet
- Being tested
- PA1: Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps group, PA2: Education sessions, Reminders, PA3: Education sessions, Whataps group, PA4: Education sessions, HD1: Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps group
- Keywords
- Family, well-being, Physical activity, Diet
- Medical subject headings
- Motor Activity
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
PA1: Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps groupBehavioural
The intervention includes three components:
- Physical activity knowledge enhancement session: one core session and one booster session on increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary behavior
- Physical activity Anti-inertia Reminder: souvenirs and electronic healthy messages are sent to participants in this group to promote the awareness of performing regular exercise
- Physical activity ambassadors' electronic communication group: the community leaders and ambassadors' formed an electronic communication group to share their experience on performing regular physical activity and program implementation.
PA2: Education sessions, RemindersBehavioural
The intervention includes two components:
- Physical activity knowledge enhancement session: one core session and one booster session on increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary behavior
- Physical activity Anti-inertia Reminder: souvenirs and electronic healthy messages are sent to participants in this group to promote the awareness of performing regular exercise
PA3: Education sessions, Whataps groupBehavioural
The intervention includes two components:
- Physical activity knowledge enhancement session: one core session and one booster session on increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary behavior.
- Physical activity ambassadors' electronic communication group: the community leaders and ambassadors' formed an electronic communication group to share their experience on performing regular physical activity and program implementation.
PA4: Education sessionsBehavioural
The intervention includes one component only:
- Physical activity knowledge enhancement session: one core session and one booster session on increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary behavior
HD1: Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps groupBehavioural
The intervention includes two components:
- Healthy diet knowledge enhancement session: one core session and one booster session on increasing reducing sugary intake.
Healthy diet Anti-inertia Reminder: souvenirs and electronic healthy messages are sent to participants in this group to promote the awareness of reducing sugary intake.
- Healthy diet ambassadors' electronic communication group: the community leaders and ambassadors' formed an electronic communication group to share their experience on reducing sugary intake and program implementation.
HD2: Education sessions, RemindersBehavioural
The intervention includes two components:
- Healthy diet knowledge enhancement session: one core session and one booster session on increasing reducing sugary intake.
- Healthy diet Anti-inertia Reminder: souvenirs and electronic healthy messages are sent to participants in this group to promote the awareness of reducing sugary intake.
HD3:Education sessions, Whataps groupBehavioural
The intervention includes two components:
- Healthy diet knowledge enhancement session: one core session and one booster session on increasing reducing sugary intake.
- Healthy diet ambassadors' electronic communication group: the community leaders and ambassadors' formed an electronic communication group to share their experience on reducing sugary intake and program implementation.
HD4: Education sessionsBehavioural
The intervention includes one component only:
- Healthy diet knowledge enhancement session: one core session and one booster session on increasing reducing sugary intake.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| PA1:Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps group | Experimental | The intervention includes Physical activity knowledge enhancement session, Physical activity anti-inertia Reminders , Physical activity ambassadors' electronic communication group. Receives: Behavioral: PA2: Education sessions, Reminders; Behavioral: PA3: Education sessions, Whataps group; Behavioral: PA4: Education sessions; Behavioral: HD1: Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps group |
| PA2:Education sessions, Reminders | Active comparator | The intervention includes Physical activity knowledge enhancement session and Physical activity anti-inertia Reminders Receives: Behavioral: PA3: Education sessions, Whataps group; Behavioral: PA4: Education sessions |
| PA3:Education sessions, Whataps group | Active comparator | The intervention includes Physical activity knowledge enhancement session and Physical activity ambassadors' electronic communication group. Receives: Behavioral: PA2: Education sessions, Reminders; Behavioral: PA4: Education sessions |
| PA4:Education sessions | Active comparator | The intervention includes Physical activity knowledge enhancement session only. Receives: Behavioral: HD4: Education sessions |
| HD1:Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps group | Experimental | The intervention includes Health diet knowledge enhancement session, Health diet anti-inertia Reminders , Health diet ambassadors' electronic communication group. Receives: Behavioral: PA1: Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps group; Behavioral: HD2: Education sessions, Reminders; Behavioral: HD3:Education sessions, Whataps group; Behavioral: HD4: Education sessions |
| HD2:Education sessions, Reminders | Active comparator | The intervention includes Health diet knowledge enhancement session, Health diet anti-inertia Reminders , and Health diet ambassadors' electronic communication group. Receives: Behavioral: HD3:Education sessions, Whataps group; Behavioral: HD4: Education sessions |
| HD3:Education sessions, Whataps group | Active comparator | The intervention includes Health diet knowledge enhancement session and Health diet ambassadors' electronic communication group. Receives: Behavioral: HD2: Education sessions, Reminders; Behavioral: HD4: Education sessions |
| HD4:Education sessions | Active comparator | The intervention includes Health diet knowledge enhancement session only. Receives: Behavioral: HD4: Education sessions |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Change in behaviour
Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
Measured: baseline and one month
Secondary outcomes (10)
Change in behavior
Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
Measured: Baseline, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 9 months
Change in learning
Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
Measured: Baseline, immediately after core session, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 9 months
Influence on family members
Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
Measured: Baseline, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 9 months
Personal physical and psychological health
Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
Measured: Baseline, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 9 months
Quality of Life
Assessed by a validated questionnaire (SF12)
Measured: Baseline, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 9 months
Family well-being
Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
Measured: Baseline, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 9 months
Family relationship
Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
Measured: Baseline, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 9 months
Satisfaction towards the program
Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
Measured: immediately after core session, immediately after booster session at 1 month, 6 months, 9 months
Response on Anti-inertia Reminder
Assessed by outcome-based questions
Measured: 1 months, 3 months, 6 months
Social network relationship
Assessed by outcome-based questions
Measured: 6 months and 9 months
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted15 Aug 2016 (estimated)
- Study startJan 2016
- Primary completionAug 2017 (estimated)
- Study completionAug 2017 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (4)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for FamilyStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by The University of Hong KongThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 1,200 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- The University of Hong Kong
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Hong Kong Island Women Association, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Professor Lam Tai-Hing, The University of Hong Kong
- Investigators
- Tai-hing Lam, MD, Principal investigator, School of Public Health, The University of Hong KongPiana He, MSc, Study director, Hong Kong Island Women Association
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02866773
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- UW -1622
- Status last verified
- Aug 2016
- First submitted
- 8 Aug 2016
- Last updated
- 15 Aug 2016
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- Yes
- Individual data sharing
- No
Publications
Artinian NT, Fletcher GF, Mozaffarian D, Kris-Etherton P, Van Horn L, Lichtenstein AH, Kumanyika S, Kraus WE, Fleg JL, Redeker NS, Meininger JC, Banks J, Stuart-Shor EM, Fletcher BJ, Miller TD, Hughes S, Braun LT, Kopin LA, Berra K, Hayman LL, Ewing LJ, Ades PA, Durstine JL, Houston-Miller N, Burke LE; American Heart Association Prevention Committee of the Council on Cardiovascular Nursing. Interventions to promote physical activity and dietary lifestyle changes for cardiovascular risk factor reduction in adults: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2010 Jul 27;122(4):406-41. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0b013e3181e8edf1. Epub 2010 Jul 12. No abstract available.
PubMed 20625115Mozaffarian D, Afshin A, Benowitz NL, Bittner V, Daniels SR, Franch HA, Jacobs DR Jr, Kraus WE, Kris-Etherton PM, Krummel DA, Popkin BM, Whitsel LP, Zakai NA; American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology and Prevention, Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism, Council on Clinical Cardiology, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, Council on the Kidney in Cardiovasc. Population approaches to improve diet, physical activity, and smoking habits: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2012 Sep 18;126(12):1514-63. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0b013e318260a20b. Epub 2012 Aug 20.
PubMed 22907934Haines DJ, Davis L, Rancour P, Robinson M, Neel-Wilson T, Wagner S. A pilot intervention to promote walking and wellness and to improve the health of college faculty and staff. J Am Coll Health. 2007 Jan-Feb;55(4):219-25. doi: 10.3200/JACH.55.4.219-225.
PubMed 17319328Epstein LH, Paluch RA, Wrotniak BH, Daniel TO, Kilanowski C, Wilfley D, Finkelstein E. Cost-effectiveness of family-based group treatment for child and parental obesity. Child Obes. 2014 Apr;10(2):114-21. doi: 10.1089/chi.2013.0123. Epub 2014 Mar 21.
PubMed 24655212
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 15 Aug 2016. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Family Holistic Health Community Promotion, A Community-based Research to Promote Healthy Diet and Physical Activity in Hong Kong Island: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (cRCT)
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02866773
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- UW -1622
- Conditions
- Family, Well-being, Physical Activity, Healthy Diet
- Keywords
- Family, well-being, Physical activity, Diet
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Unknown status
- Enrolment
- 1,200 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- The University of Hong KongUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Hong Kong Island Women Association, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust
- Study start
- Jan 2016
- Primary completion
- Aug 2017 (estimated)
- Study completion
- Aug 2017 (estimated)
- First posted
- 15 Aug 2016 (estimated)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
In Hong Kong, nearly 40% of adults were overweight or obese, and about 60% of total registered deaths were due to four major preventable non-communicable diseases. Many residents are lack of attention to personal healthy lifestyle and family holistic health. This project focuses particularly on the promotion of healthy diet and physical activities enhancement in families through the well-established community network of the Hong Kong Island Women Association (HKIWA). This project includes three major components: Train-the-trainer and -ambassador workshop, community-based family interventions, and public education events. It is expected that knowledge and skills of the community leaders and ambassadors are strengthened through the 'Train-the-trainer and -ambassador' (TTTA) workshops. Furthermore, they are expected to help the implementation of community-based family interventions and public education events on the personal and family holistic health of the community participants.
Detailed description
According to World Health Organization (WHO), the prevalence of obesity among all nations has nearly doubled since 1980. High body mass index (BMI) is one of the major risk factors of many non-communicable diseases (NCD) and is the result of unhealthy diet and physical inactivity. In Hong Kong, the Department of Health (DH) found in 2012, through the telephone surveys, that nearly 40% of adults were overweight or obese. About 60% of total registered deaths in Hong Kong were due to four major preventable NCD, which were cancer, heart diseases, stroke and chronic lower respiratory diseases. Therefore, population-based interventions for collective health benefits, especially regarding weight management, are essential in lowering the risk of NCD in the total population.
Given the high proportion of overweight and obese individuals among the local population, achieving modest or even small behavioral changes in diet or activity could potentially lead to significant improvements in public health. Promotion of healthy diets and physical activity is one of the five recommended cost-effective interventions that have been addressed in The Lancet Series. The implementation of policies to promote healthy diets - reducing sugary beverages, in particular - and physical activity due to the likelihood of wide-ranging health gains, including prevention of overweight and cardiovascular disease, on a population level is advocated.
Facing the same challenges of the rest of the world that many residents are lacking of attention on healthy lifestyle, the Hong Kong SAR Government has a burden to improve the well-being of the general public. The Government has recently established a Committee on 'Reduction of Salt and Sugar in Food'. They will steer the direction, formulate and oversee the Action Plans for Salt and Sugar Reduction in Hong Kong. The aim is to reduce the intake of salt and sugar by residents to meet the WHO recommendations. The Centre for Food Safety showed that carbonated drinks and fruit juices were popular in Hong Kong. However, the added sugar does not have any nutritional value but increases the risk of overweight and obesity. Therefore, the promotion of healthy family diet is appropriate for improving a current public health situation in Hong Kong. On the other hand, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department have been jointed with the Department of Health to launch the 'Healthy Exercise for All Campaign' for raising the public's interest in exercising. However, none of the campaigns have addressed the problems and barriers of the sedentary people and their families. The barriers include myths and wrong perceptions, e.g.; exercise has to be difficult, or one has to find much time, spend much money and do lots of high intensive exercise to be beneficial.
This project is aimed to motivate participants to improve start with 'zero-time exercise' and reduce sugary beverages, which can be incorporated into daily life to reduce day-to-day sedentary time and sugar intake together with family members of all ages, that can then act as a trigger for active and healthy lifestyle. Few exercises can be done by the family members together. The investigators shall motivate participants to share what they have learned with their family members and to do 'zero-time exercise' and reduce sugary beverage's intake together. This project includes three major components: Train-the-trainer and -ambassador workshop, community-based family interventions, and public education events. Knowledge and skills of the community leaders and ambassadors will be strengthened through the 'Train-the-trainer and -ambassador' workshop. The trainees will be expected to help the implementation of community-based family interventions and public education events on the personal and family holistic health of the community participants.
Outcome and process evaluations will be used to assess the engagement, implementation and effectiveness of the project. Focus group and in-depth interviews will be conducted to obtain feedback, and opinion of the community leaders, ambassadors and community participants. Quantitative questionnaire assessments will be conducted at different time points to assess the effectiveness of the project on the key components of personal and family holistic health, and family well-being. The assessment time points are before and immediately after the core session, before and after the booster session at one month, three months, six months for community participants. An additional assessment for the community leaders and ambassadors is nine months.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 8
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| PA1:Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps group | Experimental | Behavioral: PA2: Education sessions, Reminders, Behavioral: PA3: Education sessions, Whataps group, Behavioral: PA4: Education sessions, Behavioral: HD1: Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps groupThe intervention includes Physical activity knowledge enhancement session, Physical activity anti-inertia Reminders , Physical activity ambassadors' electronic communication group. |
| PA2:Education sessions, Reminders | Active comparator | Behavioral: PA3: Education sessions, Whataps group, Behavioral: PA4: Education sessionsThe intervention includes Physical activity knowledge enhancement session and Physical activity anti-inertia Reminders |
| PA3:Education sessions, Whataps group | Active comparator | Behavioral: PA2: Education sessions, Reminders, Behavioral: PA4: Education sessionsThe intervention includes Physical activity knowledge enhancement session and Physical activity ambassadors' electronic communication group. |
| PA4:Education sessions | Active comparator | Behavioral: HD4: Education sessionsThe intervention includes Physical activity knowledge enhancement session only. |
| HD1:Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps group | Experimental | Behavioral: PA1: Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps group, Behavioral: HD2: Education sessions, Reminders, Behavioral: HD3:Education sessions, Whataps group, Behavioral: HD4: Education sessionsThe intervention includes Health diet knowledge enhancement session, Health diet anti-inertia Reminders , Health diet ambassadors' electronic communication group. |
| HD2:Education sessions, Reminders | Active comparator | Behavioral: HD3:Education sessions, Whataps group, Behavioral: HD4: Education sessionsThe intervention includes Health diet knowledge enhancement session, Health diet anti-inertia Reminders , and Health diet ambassadors' electronic communication group. |
| HD3:Education sessions, Whataps group | Active comparator | Behavioral: HD2: Education sessions, Reminders, Behavioral: HD4: Education sessionsThe intervention includes Health diet knowledge enhancement session and Health diet ambassadors' electronic communication group. |
| HD4:Education sessions | Active comparator | Behavioral: HD4: Education sessionsThe intervention includes Health diet knowledge enhancement session only. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 12 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (14 listed)
- Train-the-trainers and ambassador programs:
- Community-based family interventions:
- Public education events:
Key exclusion criteria (1 listed)
- Participants who fail to meet the inclusion criteria, or are unable to sign the consent form.
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| PA1: Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps groupThe intervention includes three components: * Physical activity knowledge enhancement session: one core session and one booster session on increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary behavior * Physical activity Anti-inertia Reminder: souvenirs and electronic healthy messages are sent to participants in this group to promote the awareness of performing regular exercise * Physical activity ambassadors' electronic communication group: the community leaders and ambassadors' formed an electronic communication group to share their experience on performing regular physical activity and program implementation. | Behavioural | HD1:Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps group |
| PA2: Education sessions, RemindersThe intervention includes two components: * Physical activity knowledge enhancement session: one core session and one booster session on increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary behavior * Physical activity Anti-inertia Reminder: souvenirs and electronic healthy messages are sent to participants in this group to promote the awareness of performing regular exercise | Behavioural | PA1:Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps group, PA3:Education sessions, Whataps group |
| PA3: Education sessions, Whataps groupThe intervention includes two components: * Physical activity knowledge enhancement session: one core session and one booster session on increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary behavior. * Physical activity ambassadors' electronic communication group: the community leaders and ambassadors' formed an electronic communication group to share their experience on performing regular physical activity and program implementation. | Behavioural | PA1:Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps group, PA2:Education sessions, Reminders |
| PA4: Education sessionsThe intervention includes one component only: - Physical activity knowledge enhancement session: one core session and one booster session on increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary behavior | Behavioural | PA1:Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps group, PA2:Education sessions, Reminders, PA3:Education sessions, Whataps group |
| HD1: Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps groupThe intervention includes two components: - Healthy diet knowledge enhancement session: one core session and one booster session on increasing reducing sugary intake. Healthy diet Anti-inertia Reminder: souvenirs and electronic healthy messages are sent to participants in this group to promote the awareness of reducing sugary intake. - Healthy diet ambassadors' electronic communication group: the community leaders and ambassadors' formed an electronic communication group to share their experience on reducing sugary intake and program implementation. | Behavioural | PA1:Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps group |
| HD2: Education sessions, RemindersThe intervention includes two components: * Healthy diet knowledge enhancement session: one core session and one booster session on increasing reducing sugary intake. * Healthy diet Anti-inertia Reminder: souvenirs and electronic healthy messages are sent to participants in this group to promote the awareness of reducing sugary intake. | Behavioural | HD1:Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps group, HD3:Education sessions, Whataps group |
| HD3:Education sessions, Whataps groupThe intervention includes two components: * Healthy diet knowledge enhancement session: one core session and one booster session on increasing reducing sugary intake. * Healthy diet ambassadors' electronic communication group: the community leaders and ambassadors' formed an electronic communication group to share their experience on reducing sugary intake and program implementation. | Behavioural | HD1:Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps group, HD2:Education sessions, Reminders |
| HD4: Education sessionsThe intervention includes one component only: - Healthy diet knowledge enhancement session: one core session and one booster session on increasing reducing sugary intake. | Behavioural | HD1:Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps group, HD2:Education sessions, Reminders, HD3:Education sessions, Whataps group, HD4:Education sessions, PA4:Education sessions |
Primary outcome
Change in behaviour
Time frame: baseline and one month
Assessed by outcome-based questionnaire
10 secondary outcomes
Change in behavior
Time frame: Baseline, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 9 months
Change in learning
Time frame: Baseline, immediately after core session, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 9 months
Influence on family members
Time frame: Baseline, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 9 months
Personal physical and psychological health
Time frame: Baseline, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 9 months
Quality of Life
Time frame: Baseline, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 9 months
Family well-being
Time frame: Baseline, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 9 months
Family relationship
Time frame: Baseline, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 9 months
Satisfaction towards the program
Time frame: immediately after core session, immediately after booster session at 1 month, 6 months, 9 months
Response on Anti-inertia Reminder
Time frame: 1 months, 3 months, 6 months
Social network relationship
Time frame: 6 months and 9 months
Results and safety
Results are not available in the source record.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 15 Aug 2016.
- Background: PubMed 20625115Artinian NT, Fletcher GF, Mozaffarian D, Kris-Etherton P, Van Horn L, Lichtenstein AH, Kumanyika S, Kraus WE, Fleg JL, Redeker NS, Meininger JC, Banks J, Stuart-Shor EM, Fletcher BJ, Miller TD, Hughes S, Braun LT, Kopin LA, Berra K, Hayman LL, Ewing LJ, Ades PA, Durstine JL, Houston-Miller N, Burke LE; American Heart Association Prevention Committee of the Council on Cardiovascular Nursing. Interventions to promote physical activity and dietary lifestyle changes for cardiovascular risk factor reduction in adults: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2010 Jul 27;122(4):406-41. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0b013e3181e8edf1. Epub 2010 Jul 12. No abstract available.
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- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Tai-hing Lam, MD principal investigator
School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong
Piana He, MSc study director
Hong Kong Island Women Association
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing PA1: Education sessions, Reminders, Whataps group, PA2: Education sessions, Reminders and PA3: Education sessions, Whataps group in people with Family and Well-being, run by The University of Hong Kong at 1 site in Hong Kong.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 14 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 15 Aug 2016. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in Hong Kong. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
Results are not available in the source record.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact Agnes YK Lai, DN (852-3917-6779, agneslai@hku.hk), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Change in behaviour (time frame: baseline and one month). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT02866773, which also lists 4 linked publications.
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 15 Aug 2016; AzTrials last refreshed its copy on 8 Nov 2026.