Well-Child Care Clinical Practice Redesign: A Parent Coach-Led Model of Care

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

937 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-03-05

Study Completion Date

2022-07-14

Brief Summary

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Parent-focused Redesign for Encounters, Newborns to Toddlers (PARENT) is a team-based approach to care using a health educator ("Parent Coach") to provide the bulk of WCC services, address specific needs faced by families in low-income communities, and decrease reliance on the clinician as the primary provider of WCC services. The Parent Coach provides anticipatory guidance, psychosocial and social needs screening/referral, and developmental and behavioral surveillance, screening, and guidance at each WCC visit, and is supported by parent-focused pre-visit screening and visit prioritization, a brief, problem-focused clinician encounter for a physical exam and any concerns that require a clinician's attention, and an automated text message parent reminder and education service for periodic, age-specific messages to reinforce key health-related information recommended by Bright Futures national guidelines.

The investigators will conduct a cluster RCT of PARENT to determine its effects on quality, utilization, and clinician efficiency, and its cost/cost-offset.

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Detailed Description

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Well-Child Care (WCC) visits for child preventive care during the first three years of life are critical because they may be the only opportunity before a child reaches preschool to identify and address important social, developmental, behavioral, and health issues that could have significant impact and long-lasting effects on children's lives as adults. Despite its potential, multiple studies have demonstrated that pediatric providers fail to provide all recommended preventive and developmental services at these visits and that most parents leave the visit with unaddressed psychosocial, developmental, and behavioral concerns. Further, these missed opportunities are more pronounced for children in low-income families.

A critical problem is that the structure of WCC in the U.S. cannot support the vast array of WCC needs of families. Key structural problems include (a) reliance on clinicians (pediatricians, family physicians, or nurse practitioners) for basic, routine WCC services, (b) limitation to a 15-minute face-to-face clinician-directed WCC visit for the wide array of education and guidance services in WCC, and (c) lack of a systematic, patient-driven method for visit customization to meet families' needs. These structural problems contribute to the wide variations in processes of care and preventive care outcomes, resulting in poorer quality of WCC and perhaps worse health outcomes, particularly for children in low-income communities.

To address the gaps in current WCC this study introduces a new model of care to meet the needs of children in low-income communities: Parent-focused Redesign for Encounters, Newborns to Toddlers (PARENT). PARENT is a team-based approach to care using a health educator ("Parent Coach") to provide the bulk of WCC services, address specific needs faced by families in low-income communities, and decrease reliance on the clinician as the primary provider of WCC services. The Parent Coach provides anticipatory guidance, psychosocial screening/referral, and developmental and behavioral surveillance, screening, and guidance at each WCC visit, and is supported by parent-focused pre-visit screening and visit prioritization, a brief, problem-focused clinician encounter for a physical exam and any concerns that require a clinician's attention, and an automated text message parent reminder and education service for periodic, age-specific messages to reinforce key health-related information recommended by Bright Futures national guidelines.

To assess the efficacy of PARENT, the investigators will conduct a cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT). The study will be conducted in partnership with 10 clinics.

In preparation for the trial, investigators will use a Community Engagement \& Intervention Implementation process that has been successful in previous studies to guide the intervention adaptation process, Parent Coach training, practice workflow, and intervention implementation in the practices. For the study trial, the investigators will conduct a cluster RCT of PARENT to determine its effects on quality, utilization, and clinician efficiency, and its cost/cost-offset. The project's community partners include two federally-qualified health centers (FQHC). FQHC #1 has 4 clinics participating in the study and FQHC #2 has 6 clinics participating in the study. The total number of clinics participating in the study is 10 clinics randomized at the clinic level to intervention or control condition. The intervention clinics will implement PARENT for all well-visits through age 2 years at their clinical site, and the control clinics will continue usual care (clinician directed well-visit). 1,000 families will be enrolled at infant age ≤12 months and remain in the study for a period of 12 months. Parents will complete a survey at baseline and at 6 and 12-months post enrollment.

Conditions

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Preventive Health Services Health Promotion

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Intervention

Parents will meet with a Parent Coach during child's routine well visits, and have access to the parent coach between visits for additional follow up and concerns, and have access to a preventive care text messaging services (Healthy Txt).

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Parent Coach

Intervention Type OTHER

The Parent Coach intervention uses a health educator who provides anticipatory guidance, psychosocial screening/ referral, and developmental/behavioral surveillance, screening, and guidance at each well-visit. The Parent Coach uses a parent-focused, pre-visit questionnaire to customize the visit to the parents' needs. Every well-visit includes a brief, problem-focused encounter with a clinician for a physical exam and any concerns that require a clinician's attention. Finally, an automated text message service provides for periodic, age-specific messages to reinforce key health messages from Parent Coach-led well-visits.

Control

usual care well child care

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Parent Coach

The Parent Coach intervention uses a health educator who provides anticipatory guidance, psychosocial screening/ referral, and developmental/behavioral surveillance, screening, and guidance at each well-visit. The Parent Coach uses a parent-focused, pre-visit questionnaire to customize the visit to the parents' needs. Every well-visit includes a brief, problem-focused encounter with a clinician for a physical exam and any concerns that require a clinician's attention. Finally, an automated text message service provides for periodic, age-specific messages to reinforce key health messages from Parent Coach-led well-visits.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Parent/legal guardian-Child dyad attending well child check-up visits for a 2-week to 12- month WCC visit.
* Parent is English or Spanish proficient
* For multiple gestations, one infant will be randomly selected as the index child. Infants with special health care needs will not be excluded from the study, since these children generally need the same recommended preventive care services.

Exclusion Criteria

* More than one child attending Well-Child Care
* Legal guardian of child is under 18 years of age
* Parents who are employed by one of the federally-qualified health centers (FQHCs)
* Parents/legal guardian not planning to continue receiving well child care services at this clinic for their child in the next 12 months

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No