Short report: Associations of family characteristics and clinicians' use of caregiver coaching in early intervention.

ABSTRACT: There is a great demand for quality early intervention services for autistic children and their families. Caregiver-mediated interventions are critical components of evidence-based early intervention. However, their implementation in publicly funded systems is often done with poor fidelity. Qualitative evidence suggests that family characteristics impact clinicians' use of caregiver-mediated intervention coaching strategies. We estimated associations between family characteristics and clinicians' use of a caregiver-mediated intervention in a publicly funded early intervention system, leveraging data from a pilot randomized trial. Data were collected from 12 clinicians and 34 families. We used multiple linear regression models to estimate associations. The association between household inco

SUBMITTER: Hernandez AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12159352 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature