Improving Family Navigation for Children With Autism: A Comparison of Two Pilot Randomized Controlled Trials.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Family navigation (FN), a care management strategy, helps families overcome systems and person-level barriers to care. We previously demonstrated FN's feasibility, acceptability, and potential efficacy for increasing access and reducing time to autism-related diagnostic services among low-income, minority children. In this paper, we describe modifications to FN in response to concerns raised in our first pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT), and then assess these modifications in a second pilot RCT.

Methods

An advisory group recommended modifications to recruitment procedures and study conditions. Forty parent-child dyad participants with autism-related concerns were randomized to receive modified usual care (UC) or modified FN. We compared whether the first and

SUBMITTER: Feinberg E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7554108 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature