Table 1 Phases and activities in the PRORIVA small-scale intervention
Community intervention phases and activities | Description of activities |
|---|---|
Building trust | |
Community leader meeting | Meetings for community leaders conducted separately for certain level of community leaders. Usually discuss how to solve the problem in their community and to socialize program |
Public awareness | |
Regular Public Meeting | A once a month meeting conducted separately among fathers and mothers usually discuss community problems and socialize program. In these meetings we communicated messages in every stage of intervention including health education and a forum to arise decision on non-smoking meeting. |
Program development | |
Team works meetings | A once a week meeting involving PRORIVA team, key person and health workers to design, implement and monitor the program |
Community Organizing | |
CVD information posts | Posts where people can access CVD risk factors screening, health counseling, and necessary referral to health service. These posts open regularly about 4 hours twice a week. |
Sunday Morning Walking | Walking together voluntarily for all people every Sunday after morning praying. Start with a short health speech, risk factors screening, walking for 30 minutes, ended with healthy refreshment. |
Weekly Exercise Group | Aerobic dancing groups, conducted once a week with local instructor, and mostly attended by mothers. Started with short health speech, risk factors screening and dancing for 30 minutes. |
Initiation of maintenance | |
Cooking Competitions | Competition between groups of ten-household-mothers to provide healthy cooking from certain raw materials, for example from soya. |
Aerobic Dancing Competitions | Competitions between self-arranged group consist of 4–10 people to perform aerobic dancing |
Health Speech Competitions | Competitions between health workers to deliver health message on CVD prevention |
Healthy Walking Competitions | Competitions for all people to perform moderate walking. |
Public festival | A public feast conducted to acknowledge the volunteers working for PRORIVA, and to announce the champions of competitions |