NCT01676532

Feasibility Study on the Model School Pediatric Health Initiative Pilot Project

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 127 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Hospital for Sick Children · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Day – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This is a prospective cross sectional study to assess the feasibility of a school based health centre (SBHC) at Sprucecourt Public School, an inner-city elementary school in Toronto. The SBHC allows inner-city children who face barriers to accessing health care the opportunity to receive health care in their school.The primary aim of this study is to determine utilization of the SBHC. Establishing feasibility of the SBHC would support further development and expansion of this program into other inner city schools.

Detailed description

A chart review of the first year of the SBHC was conducted. Feasibility metrics included the number of children who enrolled at the SBHC. Efficacy metrics included the proportion of enrolled children who enrolled at SBHC. Efficacy metrics included the proportion of enrolled children who attended and received new diagnoses and treatment plans

Conditions

• School Board Health Centers

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Students attending SBHC	School based health clinic. This is a cohort study as such there is only one group of children who used the SBHC

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-01-01
• Primary completion: 2015-01-01
• Completion: 2015-01-01
• First posted: 2012-08-31
• Last updated: 2016-05-24
• Results posted: 2016-05-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada