Quality of social and emotional wellbeing services for families of young Indigenous children attending primary care centers; a cross sectional analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The quality of social and emotional wellbeing services for Indigenous families of young children is not known, in many settings especially services provided by primary care centers.

Methods

Our primary objective was to assess delivery of social and emotional wellbeing services to the families of young (3-11 months) and older (12-59 months) Indigenous children attending primary care centers. Our secondary objective was to assess if delivery differed by geographic location. Two thousand four hundred sixty-six client files from 109 primary care centers across Australia from 2012 to 2014 were analysed using logistic regression and generalised estimating equations.

Results

The proportion of families receiving social and emotional wellbeing services ranged from 1

SUBMITTER: Edmond KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5807859 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature