NCT02495025

Testing the Effectiveness of Telephone-based Early Childhood Developmental Screening

Developing and Testing a New Model for Telephone-based Early Childhood Developmental Screening and Care Coordination in Vulnerable Populations

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 152 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Months – 42 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this research study is to test the effectiveness of telephone-based early childhood developmental screening and care coordination, compared to usual care in a primary care pediatrics clinic. Investigators randomized 152 participants to one of two study arms, with the intervention families receiving developmental screening over the phone, and control families receiving usual care with their pediatricians.

Detailed description

Although the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends universal early childhood developmental screening as part of routine well-child care, there have been many studies documenting that many pediatricians do not follow the AAP guidelines. One intervention that has the potential to improve care, especially for low-income families, is centralized, telephone-based developmental screening, and care coordination for families whose children have developmental or behavioral concerns. 2-1-1 Los Angeles developed such an intervention and this study aims to test its effectiveness, in partnership with a local community clinic, using a randomized, controlled study design. Investigators partnered with the Clinica Oscar A Romero, a federally-qualified health center in Los Angeles, serving predominantly low-income Latino families. Investigators hope to enroll up to 300 families in the study. Eligible families will have children ages 12 to 42 months of age who receive well-child care at the clinic. As investigators obtain informed consent and enroll families, they will randomize study participants into intervention and control groups. Intervention group families will be transferred to 211 Los Angeles to complete developmental screening over the phone, while control group families will go to their pediatricians for well-child care as usual.

Conditions

• Child Development
• Developmental Disabilities
• Ambulatory Care
• Screening

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Telephone-based developmental screening and care coordination

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-02-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-31
• Completion: 2017-02-28
• First posted: 2015-07-13
• Last updated: 2019-10-14
• Results posted: 2019-10-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States