Assisting Low-Income Families at Pediatric Well-Child Care Visits

NCT ID: NCT00397644

Last Updated: 2023-11-01

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 200 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2006-03-31
• Study Completion Date: 2006-06-30

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.

Conditions

Low-income Children's Well-child Care Visit

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Interventions

Prompting (survey instrument/resources list) (behavior)

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

The Commonwealth Fund

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Johns Hopkins University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Principal Investigators

Arvin Garg, MD, MPH

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Janet Serwint, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Locations

Harriet Lane Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Countries

United States

References

Kalra N, Hooker L, Reisenhofer S, Di Tanna GL, Garcia-Moreno C. Training healthcare providers to respond to intimate partner violence against women. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021 May 31;5(5):CD012423. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD012423.pub2.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 34057734 (View on PubMed)

Garg A, Butz AM, Dworkin PH, Lewis RA, Thompson RE, Serwint JR. Improving the management of family psychosocial problems at low-income children's well-child care visits: the WE CARE Project. Pediatrics. 2007 Sep;120(3):547-58. doi: 10.1542/peds.2007-0398.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 17766528 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

20060351

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id