NCT00782028

Integrating Well-Woman and Well-Baby Care to Improve Parenting and Family Wellness

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 170 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) · NIH
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

We hypothesize that relative to families who receive standard individual postpartum and pediatric care, families that receive group care will be more likely to have: * Improved maternal and child health behaviors: i.e increased breastfeeding, exercise, child safety measures in the home and decreased smoking. * Better health care use for babies: i.e. attend more care visits, on-time and complete immunizations and decreased emergency services use. * Better psychosocial outcomes for the families: i.e. decreased stress and depression, and increased social support. * Improved parenting skills: i.e. improved knowledge of child development, involvement in developmentally appropriate activities, and parental sense of competence.

Conditions

• Primary Care

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Centering parenting/Group well child care	Intervention families will receive well child care in a group format for the first 12 month of the child's life.
OTHER	Standard Care

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-10-01
• Primary completion: 2010-05-01
• Completion: 2010-05-01
• First posted: 2008-10-29
• Last updated: 2008-10-29