The added value of a family-centered approach to optimize infants' social-emotional development: A quasi-experimental study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Family-centered care (FCC) has been related to positive healthcare outcomes in pediatric care. Our aim was to assess whether an FCC approach also leads to better and earlier identification of social-emotional problems and less child psychosocial problems at age 18 months.

Methods

In a quasi-experimental study within routine well-child care in the Netherlands, we compared those regions in which an FCC approach was implemented (FCC-JointStart) to those regions with "care-as-usual" (CAU), including all children. In all regions, professionals performed well-child visits (2-18 months) and assessed social-emotional problems, or risks developing these, by rating outcomes of assessments as "not optimal" or as "a problem." We compared FCC-JointStart and CAU regarding the ra

SUBMITTER: Reijneveld SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5739404 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature