Community Health Workers in Early Childhood Well-Child Care for Medicaid-Insured Children: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

An intervention model (the Parent-focused Redesign for Encounters, Newborns to Toddlers; the PARENT intervention) for well-child care that integrates a community health worker into preventive care services may enhance early childhood well-child care.

Objective

To examine the effectiveness of the PARENT intervention vs usual care for parents with children younger than 2 years of age.

Design, setting, and participants

A cluster randomized clinical trial was conducted between March 2019 and July 2022. Of the 1283 parents with a child younger than 2 years of age presenting for a well-child visit at 1 of the 10 clinic sites (2 federally qualified health centers in California and Washington) approached for trial participation, 937 were enrolled.

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SUBMITTER: Coker TR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10150321 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature