Family-Centered Care and Delayed or Missed Pediatric Preventive Care due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Acad Pediatr
; 24(5): 848-855, 2024 Jul.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To examine the association between family-centered care and its components with delayed or missed preventive care due to the COVID-9 pandemic among US children.METHODS:
This is a cross-sectional study using nationally representative data from the 2021 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH). Children were eligible if they received health care services in the past 12 months (n = 42,649; 79.3%). We excluded children with missing data, for a final sample of 40,511 (93.7% of the eligible sample). Children were deemed to have received family-centered care if caregivers responded "always" or "usually" to all five measures of family-centered care. Poisson regression was used to ascertain weighted prevalence ratios (PRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Predisposing, enabling, and need factors of health care services use were evaluated as potential confounders.RESULTS:
Approximately 86.7% of children received family-centered care during the pandemic, with significant racial and ethnic differences, findings consistent with pre-pandemic data. In multivariable analyses adjusted for the child's race and age, family-centered care was associated with a 30% reduced likelihood of delayed or missed preventive care (95% CI 0.64-0.78). Individual components of family-centered care were associated with a 26%-43% reduced likelihood of delayed or missed preventive care.CONCLUSIONS:
Family-centered care and its components were associated with a reduced likelihood of delayed or missed pediatric preventive care. Our findings highlight the important role of health care providers in curbing the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on pediatric preventive care utilization and emphasize the need to expand family-centered care among racial and ethnic minority groups.Palavras-chave
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
COVID-19
Limite:
Adolescent
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
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Newborn
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Acad Pediatr
Ano de publicação:
2024
Tipo de documento:
Article