ArticleFrontiers in psychology2016
Happy Family Kitchen II: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of a Community-Based Family Intervention for Enhancing Family Communication and Well-being in Hong Kong.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01796275 (A "Happy Family Kitchen" Initiative for Promoting Family Health, Happiness, and Harmony in Tsuen Wan, Kwai Chung and Tsing Yi District), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A "Happy Family Kitchen" Initiative for Promoting Family Health, Happiness, and Harmony in Tsuen Wan, Kwai Chung and Tsing Yi District
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Fostering Positive Communities: A Scoping Review of Community-Level Positive Psychology Interventions.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Family Communication Scale in the Chinese Population.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Test-retest reliability and validity of a single-item Self-reported Family Happiness Scale in Hong Kong Chinese: findings from Hong Kong Jockey Club FAMILY Project.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2019Article
- "If my family is happy, then I am happy": Quality-of-life determinants of parents of school-age children.SAGE open medicine · 2019Article
- A Community-Based Intervention Program to Enhance Family Communication and Family Well-being: The Learning Families Project in Hong Kong.Frontiers in public health · 2017Article
- A community based intervention program to enhance neighborhood cohesion: The Learning Families Project in Hong Kong.PloS one · 2017Article
- An Evaluation of a Train-the-Trainer Workshop for Social Service Workers to Develop Community-Based Family Interventions.Frontiers in public health · 2017Article
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Abstract
Long working hours and stressful urban lifestyles pose major challenges to family communication and well-being in Hong Kong. A community-based family intervention derived from a positive psychology framework, by using cooking and dining as a platform, was developed for improving family communication and well-being. Social workers and teachers from 31 social service units and schools in collaboration with an academic partner organized and conducted the intervention programs for 2,070 individuals from 973 families in a deprived district in Hong Kong. The participants were randomly assigned into the intervention or control group in a cluster randomized controlled trial (cRCT). The core intervention covered one of five positive psychology themes: joy, gratitude, flow, savoring, and listening. Assessments at pre-intervention, immediate post-intervention, and 4 and 12 weeks post-intervention showed improved family communication and well-being with sustainable effects up to 12 weeks. Positive changes in family happiness and family health were greater in the intervention group than in the control group. The savoring intervention had the most improved outcomes among the five themes. We concluded that this large-scale brief cRCT developed and conducted in real-world settings provided evidence for the feasibility and effectiveness of a community-based family intervention. This study was registered under ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01796275).
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