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Health Qual Life Outcomes ; 18(1): 179, 2020 Jun 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32527270

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BACKGROUND: Incorporating family-centered care principles into childhood obesity interventions is integral for improved clinical decision making, better follow-through, and more effective communication that leads to better outcomes and greater satisfaction with services. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the psychometric properties of a modified version of the Family Centered-Care Assessment (mFCCA) tool and to assess the family-centeredness of two clinical-community childhood obesity interventions. METHODS: Connect for Health was a randomized trial testing the comparative effectiveness of two interventions that enrolled 721 children, ages 2-12 years, with a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 85th percentile. The two arms were (1) enhanced primary care; and (2) enhanced primary care plus contextually-tailored, health coaching. At the end of the one-year intervention, the mFCCA was administered. We used Rasch analyses to assess the tool's psychometrics and examined differences between the groups using multiple linear regression. RESULTS: 629 parents completed the mFCCA resulting in an 87% response rate. The mean (SD) age of children was 8.0 (3.0) years. The exploratory factor analysis with 24 items all loaded onto a single factor. The Rasch modeling demonstrated good reliability as evidenced by the person separation reliability coefficient (0.99), and strong validity as evidenced by the range of item difficulty and overall model fit. The mean (SD, range) mFCCA score was 4.14 (0.85, 1-5). Compared to parents of children in the enhanced primary care arm, those whose children were in the enhanced primary care plus health coaching arm had higher mFCCA scores indicating greater perception of family-centeredness (ß = 0.61 units [95% CI: 0.49, 0.73]). CONCLUSIONS: Using the mFCCA which demonstrated good psychometric properties for the assessment of family-centered care among parents of children with obesity, we found that individualized health coaching is a family-centered approach to pediatric weight management. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Clinicaltrials.gov NCT02124460.


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Assistência Centrada no Paciente/métodos , Obesidade Infantil/terapia , Atenção Primária à Saúde/métodos , Relações Profissional-Família , Adulto , Índice de Massa Corporal , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pais/psicologia , Obesidade Infantil/psicologia , Psicometria/métodos , Qualidade de Vida , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes
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J Nurs Adm ; 42(3): 138-43, 2012 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22361870

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The nursing career lattice program (NCLP) at Children's Hospital Boston has provided employees with social, educational, and financial assistance as they begin or advance their nursing careers. At the conclusion of a pilot phase, 35% of employees in the NCLP were enrolled in nursing school and 15% completed nursing school. The NCLP exemplifies how a workforce diversity initiative can lead to outcomes that support and sustain a culture rich in diversity and perpetuate excellence in nursing in one organization.


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Diversidade Cultural , Hospitais Pediátricos , Recursos Humanos de Enfermagem Hospitalar , Boston , Etnicidade , Humanos , Projetos Piloto , Grupos Raciais , Recursos Humanos
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JAMA Pediatr ; 171(8): e171325, 2017 Aug 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28586856

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IMPORTANCE: Novel approaches to care delivery that leverage clinical and community resources could improve body mass index (BMI) and family-centered outcomes. OBJECTIVE: To examine the extent to which 2 clinical-community interventions improved child BMI z score and health-related quality of life, as well as parental resource empowerment in the Connect for Health Trial. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This 2-arm, blinded, randomized clinical trial was conducted from June 2014 through March 2016, with measures at baseline and 1 year after randomization. This intent-to-treat analysis included 721 children ages 2 to 12 years with BMI in the 85th or greater percentile from 6 primary care practices in Massachusetts. INTERVENTIONS: Children were randomized to 1 of 2 arms: (1) enhanced primary care (eg, flagging of children with BMI ≥ 85th percentile, clinical decision support tools for pediatric weight management, parent educational materials, a Neighborhood Resource Guide, and monthly text messages) or (2) enhanced primary care plus contextually tailored, individual health coaching (twice-weekly text messages and telephone or video contacts every other month) to support behavior change and linkage of families to neighborhood resources. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: One-year changes in age- and sex-specific BMI z score, child health-related quality of life measured by the Pediatric Quality of Life 4.0, and parental resource empowerment. RESULTS: At 1 year, we obtained BMI z scores from 664 children (92%) and family-centered outcomes from 657 parents (91%). The baseline mean (SD) age was 8.0 (3.0) years; 35% were white (n = 252), 33.3% were black (n = 240), 21.8% were Hispanic (n = 157), and 9.9% were of another race/ethnicity (n = 71). In the enhanced primary care group, adjusted mean (SD) BMI z score was 1.91 (0.56) at baseline and 1.85 (0.58) at 1 year, an improvement of -0.06 BMI z score units (95% CI, -0.10 to -0.02) from baseline to 1 year. In the enhanced primary care plus coaching group, the adjusted mean (SD) BMI z score was 1.87 (0.56) at baseline and 1.79 (0.58) at 1 year, an improvement of -0.09 BMI z score units (95% CI, -0.13 to -0.05). However, there was no significant difference between the 2 intervention arms (difference, -0.02; 95% CI, -0.08 to 0.03; P = .39). Both intervention arms led to improved parental resource empowerment: 0.29 units (95% CI, 0.22 to 0.35) higher in the enhanced primary care group and 0.22 units (95% CI, 0.15 to 0.28) higher in the enhanced primary care plus coaching group. Parents in the enhanced primary care plus coaching group, but not in the enhanced care alone group, reported improvements in their child's health-related quality of life (1.53 units; 95% CI, 0.51 to 2.56). However, there were no significant differences between the intervention arms in either parental resource empowerment (0.07 units; 95% CI, -0.02 to 0.16) or child health-related quality of life (0.89 units; 95% CI, -0.56 to 2.33). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Two interventions that included a package of high-quality clinical care for obesity and linkages to community resources resulted in improved family-centered outcomes for childhood obesity and improvements in child BMI. TRIAL REGISTRATION: clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT02124460.


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Terapia Comportamental/métodos , Promoção da Saúde/organização & administração , Pais/educação , Obesidade Infantil/terapia , Atenção Primária à Saúde/organização & administração , Apoio Social , Criança , Pesquisa Participativa Baseada na Comunidade , Método Duplo-Cego , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Relações Pais-Filho , Telemedicina/métodos , Envio de Mensagens de Texto , Resultado do Tratamento
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Contemp Clin Trials ; 45(Pt B): 287-295, 2015 Nov.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26427562

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BACKGROUND: The Connect for Health study is designed to assess whether a novel approach to care delivery that leverages clinical and community resources and addresses socio-contextual factors will improve body mass index (BMI) and family-centered, obesity-related outcomes of interest to parents and children. The intervention is informed by clinical, community, parent, and youth stakeholders and incorporates successful strategies and best practices learned from 'positive outlier' families, i.e., those who have succeeded in changing their health behaviors and improve their BMI in the context of adverse built and social environments. DESIGN: Two-arm, randomized controlled trial with measures at baseline and 12 months after randomization. PARTICIPANTS: 2-12 year old children with overweight or obesity (BMI ≥ 85th percentile) and their parents/guardians recruited from 6 pediatric practices in eastern Massachusetts. INTERVENTION: Children randomized to the intervention arm receive a contextually-tailored intervention delivered by trained health coaches who use advanced geographic information system tools to characterize children's environments and neighborhood resources. Health coaches link families to community-level resources and use multiple support modalities including text messages and virtual visits to support families over a one-year intervention period. The control group receives enhanced pediatric care plus non-tailored health coaching. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Lower age-associated increase in BMI over a 1-year period. The main parent- and child-reported outcome is improved health-related quality of life. CONCLUSIONS: The Connect for Health study seeks to support families in leveraging clinical and community resources to improve obesity-related outcomes that are most important to parents and children.


Assuntos
Saúde da Família , Comportamentos Relacionados com a Saúde , Pais/educação , Obesidade Infantil/terapia , Programas de Redução de Peso/organização & administração , Índice de Massa Corporal , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Meio Ambiente , Feminino , Sistemas de Informação Geográfica , Promoção da Saúde/organização & administração , Humanos , Masculino , Sobrepeso/terapia , Atenção Primária à Saúde/organização & administração , Qualidade de Vida , Fatores Socioeconômicos , Telemedicina/métodos , Envio de Mensagens de Texto
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