Long-term evaluation of complex community interventions for health promotion and prevention – An examination of community capacities ten years after the start of the “Programme Lenzgesund”

Between 2005 and 2012 the health authority of Hamburg-Eimsbüttel carried out a prevention programme for children and their parents in a disadvantaged neighbourhood called Lenzsiedlung. The programme consisted of 7 action fields in which various innovative approaches, activities and projects were undertaken to improve the health of the target groups. In the development and demon-stration phase of the programme two accompanying research projects were carried out, both funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The proposed project is focussing on the evaluation of the maintenance phase of the programme that is characterised by the loss of supporting networks and resources on the one hand and by the continuation and further development of health promotion structures and activities on the other.
The main goal of the research will be the long-term assessment of community capacity building with the KEQ instrument. This instrument consists of 5 domains (participation, local leadership, available resources, networking and cooperation, health care). Further work packages are about the in-depth description of the setting and its context, facilitating and restraining factors in the maintenance phase, and the dissemination of the research findings.