Opening Pandora's box - key facilitators of practice change in detecting and responding to childhood adversity - a practitioner perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Childhood adversities worsen physical and mental health across the lifespan. Health and social care practitioners play a key role in identifying and responding to childhood adversity, however, may be reluctant to do so due to a perceived lack of services to refer to, time pressures and a deficit of training and confidence. We aimed to (1) quantify changes in practitioner comfort and confidence to identify and respond to childhood adversity following a multimodal intervention within an integrated child and family health and social care hub and (2) to understand barriers and facilitators of practice change.

Methods

Hub practitioners were surveyed about their competence and comfort to directly ask about and confidence to respond to adversity at baseline and then at s

SUBMITTER: Loveday S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11256471 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature