A Community-based Family Holistic Health Promotion Project in Hong Kong: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (cRCT)

Launched by THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG · Aug 10, 2016

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ClinConnect Summary

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. T...

Gender

ALL

Eligibility criteria

• • Inclusion criteria
• 1. 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
• 2. 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
• 3. Public education events:
• • Reading and writing abilities for questionnaire completion
• • Aged 12 or above
• • Exclusion criteria
• • - Participants who fail to meet the inclusion criteria, or are unable to sign the consent form.

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