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Design and evaluation of the StartingTogether App for preventive child health care

Design and evaluation of the StartingTogether App for home visits in preventive child health care

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ISRCTN
Registry ID
ISRCTN12491485
Enrollment
32
Registered
2018-08-22
Start date
2012-10-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2018-10-22

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Preventive child health care Not Applicable

Interventions

An exploratory sequential mixed method design was used, in which the qualitative study is combined with the quantitative (Creswell, 2009). The value of this design exists in the fact that results are

Sponsors

TNO
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Preventive health care (PHC) nurses in Amsterdam and working in one of the teams participating in the study 2. Written consent to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Does not meet inclusion criteria

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
1. Nurses’ satisfaction with the home visit, measured through a survey administered to the nurse on known challenges experienced during StartingTogether home visits (items with a 5-point Likert scale) after each home visit during the trial period 2. Parents’ satisfaction with the home visit, measured through a survey with items of the ‘CQ-Index JGZ’ administered to the parent (items with a 5-point Likert scale) and one item evaluating the visit overall (10-point scale) after each home visit during the trial period 3. Parents' rating of the usability of the app, measured after each home visit during the trial period through a survey administered to the parents in the intervention group, with one item evaluating the app’s usability (5-point scale) 4. The proportion of valid referrals made after the home visit, measured through dossier audit at the end of the trial

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
1. Demographics of the nurses, measured through a survey administered to the nurse at baseline 2. Demographics of children and parents, measured through a survey administered to the parent after each home visit during the trial period

Countries

Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 23, 2026