Health promotion in Healthy Life Centers - CHPR
Health promotion in Healthy Life Centers
In this project, the effect of a health promoting intervention for users with long-term pain will be evaluated, as well as implementation and impact of user participation in Healthy Life Centers in Norway.
This subproject is further divided into two projects:
- Effect and experiences from an intervention developed at a Healthy Life Centre will be investigated through a randomized controlled trial.
- The involvement of users in Healthy Life Centres in Norway.
Project 1:
- Effect and experiences from an intervention at a Healthy Life Center
Ph.D project by Torunn Hatlen Nøst
Effect and experiences from an intervention developed at a Healthy Life Centre will be investigated through a randomized controlled trial.
The Healthy Life Centre in Trondheim has developed a self-management intervention, “Coping with long-lasting pain”. The intervention is group-based consisting of theory with elements from cognitive behavioral therapy, and physical activity focusing on movement and relaxation.
The theoretical framework for the intervention as well as other activities at the Healthy Life Centers is health promotion with a salutogenic fundament. Participants in the comparator of the study will be offered group-based physical activity outdoors led by an instructor. The qualitative aspect will be explored in face-to face interviews with participants from both the intervention and the comparator.
Project 2:
- The involvement of users in Healthy Life Centres in Norway
Ph.D project by Espen Sagsveen
Healthy Life Centres (HLCs) are established as an important community based public health service to promote health and prevent lifestyle related diseases. A central part of the health promotion work is the process that enable people to increase control over their own health.
User involvement is considered important to reach this goal, and the users’ right to be involved and the service providers’ duty to involve the users are described in different laws. However, the knowledge about how and to what degree the users are involved seems to be scarce.
The main aims of this project are to study how service users and staff understand and experience user involvement, and how service users are involved in planning, implementation, and evaluation of services at Healthy Life Centres.
The project consist of three studies:
- Study 1 is a qualitative focus group interview study exploring HLC staffs` attitudes towards and experiences with involving users (N=20).
- Study 2 is a qualitative in-depth interview study exploring HLC service users’ attitudes towards and experiences with being involved (N=20).
- Study 3 is a cross-sectional study measuring and examining user involvement in the planning, management and evaluation of services, and the staffs` attitudes, knowledge and experiences with user involvement in Norwegian HLCs (N=400).