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.
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.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
22
These community centers who have volunteered to join the project will receive a 12 week training session which includes the values and principles of health promotion and the principles of building a health promotion project. The participants will be requested to build a health promotion project within their community. Building and implementing the project will be assisted by a health promotion specialist. Each health promotion project will be evaluated according to the principles of health promotion.
Hadassah Medical Organization
Jerusalem, Israel
project planning, implementation and assessment
RE-AIM assessment of Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation and Maintenance of the Community Center Programs, assessed by interview, There are 4-6 tailored questions in each domain and the answers are coded as yes, partially and no. Scores range from 0 -93
Time frame: 3 years
Israeli Healthy Cities Network adapted measure
Israeli Healthy Cities Network evaluation tool was designed based on the MARI's (Monitoring Accountability Reporting Impact assessment) framework. It assesses six dimensions of the principles and strategies of the Healthy Cities work: (i) Equity policy and political support. (ii) Management. (iii) Health promotion programs and activities in the city. (iv) Community participation. (v) Intersectoral partnerships (vi) Environmental protection activities. This questionnaire was adapted to a community center framework.
Time frame: 12 months after intervention initiation
European Quality Instrument for Health Promotion
information on four domains using in-person interviews: (i) compliance with international principles of Health promotion programs, (ii) development and implementation, (iii) project management and (iv) sustainability of programs. each item of the EQUIHP tool was recoded on a scale of 0-1: a score of 0 if the criteria was identified as not fulfilled, 0.5 if partly fulfilled and 1 if fully fulfilled. The sum of all valid scores per programme was divided by the number of valid answers to give the mean score. A mean score was given for each of the four domains, and for the overall score in the same manner. Higher scores are better.
Time frame: 6 months after intervention initiation
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