Integrating a Parenting Assessment into Practice: Pediatric Providers' Time and Perspectives.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To integrate a parenting assessment into primary care and assess pediatric providers' time needed to review it and their perceptions of the process.

Description

The Quick Parenting Assessment (QPA) is a validated, 13 item parent support tool that assesses for healthy and unhealthy parenting practices. Higher QPAs indicate more unhealthy parenting being used. In a clinic serving low-income parents, the QPA was integrated into the 15 month, 30 month, 5 year, and 8 year well child visits. After each well child visit in which the QPA was administered, providers were invited to complete a one-page survey-315 surveys were included in the analysis.

Assessment

Most QPAs (78.7%) were low risk (QPA <  = 2), 14.6% were medium risk (QPA = 3-4), and 6.7% were high risk (QP

SUBMITTER: J Cooke A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11420254 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature