Parenting and developmental problems.
Conditions
Interventions
The e-consultation is a digital consultation. Communication between parents and preventive child health care professionals will be performed in a secure portal for parents. Parents will be invited to
questions from parents) and gives feedback to the parents and/or invites them for a physical consultation. Parents can always visit the well-baby clinic if needed.
The control group receives regular
Sponsors
GGD Zeeland
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Children who reached the age of 18 months during the study period in the participating areas, who have low risk for parenting and developmental problems according to the SPARK-method performed by the preventive child health care nurse during the consultation at 18 months. This encompasses normal development, and competent parents with a healthy lifestyle and parenting style.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: - Parents who do not master digital communication devices. - Parents who do not master the Dutch language. - Children who have experienced medical, developmental or parenting issues in the first 18 months, that require monitoring by a preventive child health care nurse or physician. - Children who have a medical family history with high hypermetropia, high myopia, anisometropy, amblyopia, astigmatism, strabismus. When a specialist monitors eye problems of the child, the child can be monitored with e-consultations by preventive child health care professionals.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Time investment of the preventive child health care professionals. Safety and healthy development of children in the period of 18-30 months, assessed by the ASQ. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Reach (percentage children at the age of 24 months living in the participating areas, that participate in e- or physical consultations). Experiences of parents and preventive child health care professionals measured with previously developed questionnaires. | — |
Contacts
Public ContactA.R. Brunekreeft
Westwal 37, 4461 CM Goes
Outcome results
None listed