{"id":1315,"date":"2023-08-01T01:51:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T01:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groundup.cdu.edu.au\/?page_id=1315"},"modified":"2024-03-21T06:42:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T06:42:38","slug":"hope-for-health-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/groundup.cdu.edu.au\/index.php\/hope-for-health-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope for Health: Evaluation of a Community-led nutrition and lifestyle program for weight loss and metabolic Health (NMHRC)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1217\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/groundup.cdu.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Picture1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/groundup.cdu.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Picture1.jpg 1217w, https:\/\/groundup.cdu.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Picture1-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/groundup.cdu.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Picture1-1024x611.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/groundup.cdu.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Picture1-768x458.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1217px) 100vw, 1217px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hope for Health<\/em> is a preventative health program run on Galiwin\u2019ku, Elcho Island in North-East Arnhem Land. It has a local Yol\u014bu steering committee and is part of the Why Warriors Org Ltd. Amongst its many activities, <em>Hope for Health <\/em>has been conducting health retreats for Yol\u014bu. These 12-day retreats and associated follow-up activites have been held regularly since 2015. As part of a process of growing the <em>Hope or Health<\/em> program, the Yol\u014bu steering committee invited biomedical researchers to gather evidence of the effectiveness of the <em>Hope for Health <\/em>program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers from the University of Melbourne received funding from the NHMRC for the project <em>Evaluation of a community-led nutrition and lifestyle program for weight loss and metabolic health: a randomised controlled trial. <\/em>This study focussed on the potential health gains by participants &nbsp;in Hope for Health programs, measured through indicators such as weight, blood glucose levels, blood pressure and other key clinical markers. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside the pre-post intervention study, Ground Up researchers from CDU were invited to work with the steering committee and Yol\u014bu researchers to undertake a Yol\u014bu evaluation of the Hope for Health retreat and associated activities. Ground up works with Yol\u014bu (and other Aboriginal) researchers, under their elders\u2019 authority to undertake research and evaluation which takes seriously local sovereignty, governance, concepts and knowledge practices.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/groundup.cdu.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/78450-Relighting-the-Fires-Report_DIG_FIN.pdf\">Download Final Report<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope for Health is a preventative health program run on Galiwin\u2019ku, Elcho Island in North-East Arnhem Land. It has a local Yol\u014bu steering committee and is part of the Why Warriors Org Ltd. Amongst its many activities, Hope for Health has been conducting health retreats for Yol\u014bu. These 12-day retreats and associated follow-up activites have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1315","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groundup.cdu.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groundup.cdu.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groundup.cdu.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groundup.cdu.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groundup.cdu.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/groundup.cdu.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/groundup.cdu.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1315\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groundup.cdu.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}