Parents' Concerns Are Associated with Early Intervention Evaluation and Eligibility Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test the association of parents' concerns with early intervention (EI) developmental services outcomes including evaluation, eligibility, and enrollment in services.

Method

We collected survey data on parents' concerns and EI service use data from a sample of 428 children referred to EI from 2016 to 2018 in 6 Oregon primary care clinics serving lower-income families as part of a developmental and autism spectrum disorder screening intervention. We assessed EI service use trajectories and associations of the presence of parent concern, age of child at the time of parents' concerns, number of concerns, and type of provider concern, with EI evaluation, EI eligibility, and enrollment in EI services, using bivariate testing and multivariable logistic regression.

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SUBMITTER: Solgi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9665353 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature