Caregiver Perspectives on Barriers and Facilitators to Timely Well-Child Visits for Black Infants.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Missed infant well-child visits (WCV) result in lost opportunities for critical preventive care. Black infants consistently receive less WCV care than other racial groups. We sought to understand barriers and facilitators to timely infant WCV for Black families in the context of COVID-19.

Methods

We conducted 21 semi-structured interviews with caregivers of Medicaid-insured Black children aged 15- to 24-months who attended six or fewer of eight recommended well-child visits within the first 15 months of life. Interviews focused on WCV value, barriers, and facilitators. After developing our initial coding structure through rapid qualitative analysis, we inductively derived the final codebook and themes through line-by-line content analysis.

Results

Caregiver

SUBMITTER: Dever R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11849396 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature