Low-income Children's Well-child Care Visit
Conditions
Keywords
pediatrician, well-child care visit, low-income children, family psychosocial problem
Brief summary
The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact and feasibility of a practice-based intervention on the discussion and referral of family psychosocial topics at well-child care visits at a medical home for low-income children.
Detailed description
Many low-income families have family psychosocial problems such as unemployment, housing difficulties, and food insecurity. Pediatric guidelines that pediatricians should be discussing and assisting these families. However, to date few routine do. The primary hypotheses for this study is that the WE CARE (Well-child care visit, Evaluation, Community resources, Advocacy, Referral, Education)intervention would increase the discussion and referral rates for family psychosocial problems at well-child care visits.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALPrompting (survey instrument/resources list) (behavior)
Sponsors
The Commonwealth Fund
Johns Hopkins University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Caregivers of children aged 2 months to 10 years who present for well-child care visit at a pediatric clinic
Exclusion criteria
* Non-English speaking * Foster parents * Previously enrolled parent * No access to telephone
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Discussion of family psychosocial problem | — |
| Referral of family psychosocial problem | — |
| Contacting community resources | — |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed