Abstract
Community of Practice (CoP) has been proved as an effective means for co-creation of knowledge. It is not yet widely used in health promotion, not to mention to utilize technological environment such as Web 2.0 to add value to the CoP. Under this study, an eHealth promotion @HKIEd, a CoP platform to promote healthy lifestyles was designed and constructed. It helped facilitate the CoP to share useful health information, locate expertise, promote health related events, communicate health updates effectively, co-construct shared repertoire of knowledge and build shared best practice on effective health promotion which was not limited to time, space and distance. Usability test was conducted to evaluate user acceptance of the eHealth promotion CoP platform using the Computer System Usability Questionnaire. A random sample of eighty-three active participants was recruited. Fifty females and thirty-three males with mean (S.D.) aged 21.1 were asked to evaluate the e-platform. The average scores of each domain were calculated with the corresponding means of the average scores of System Use, Information Quality and Interface Quality being 2.69, 2.83 and 2.74 respectively. The overall usability was 2.48 and the eHealth promotion @HKIEd demonstrated a high usability. It will provide a promising way to disseminate information for the public in health awareness promotion.
Highlights
The increasing occurrence of chronic and complex diseases is placing increasing demands on hospitals, and causing healthcare costs to escalate
A total of one hundred and ninety-four Community of Practice (CoP) participants registered as CoP members including 11 colleagues of a tertiary institution, 163 student-health educators, 17 local health academics and practitioners and 3 overseas health practitioners
Eighty-three active CoP participants were recruited as subjects by random sampling
Summary
The increasing occurrence of chronic and complex diseases is placing increasing demands on hospitals, and causing healthcare costs to escalate. To address this problem, primary healthcare is believed to decrease the. A. Ma overall healthcare cost to society by building a healthier population, decreasing healthcare resources and empowering individuals to manage and improve their health. Ma overall healthcare cost to society by building a healthier population, decreasing healthcare resources and empowering individuals to manage and improve their health The keystone to such system is education. To foster student-health educators to be self-reliant and lifelong learners that model healthy behaviors both personally and professionally, this study aims to design and establish a Community of Practice (CoP) on a Web 2.0 platform to co-create innovative evidence-based health promotion practices for effective promotion of healthy lifestyles in school and community settings, as well as to evaluate its usability
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