NCT03719976

Prepared Parents Helping Kids

Prepared Parents Helping Kids: Teaching Health Care Navigation for Bhutanese Parents

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 35 (actual)
• Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Learning to navigate the US health system is challenging for many new immigrants. This pilot study will determine whether an intervention to teach parents key skills needed to access health care for children is feasible and acceptable to immigrant parents. This study will also look for evidence of efficacy to inform the planning process for future, larger evaluations of the intervention (i.e., estimate effect sizes).

Detailed description

Parents-particularly those with limited English proficiency (LEP) and limited literacy-may require months or years of experiential learning to master fundamental health care navigation tasks, such as requesting an interpreter. Most programs teaching health care navigation skills are ad hoc and have not be evaluated. In this study, Investigators will pilot a group-based educational intervention in which a bilingual community health worker will use an interactive curriculum to teach immigrant parents key skills needed to access health care for children. Parents and caregivers for children \<18 years will be enrolled in closed groups of 6-12 individuals. The 6-12 week intervention will comprise 6 meetings, each of which will be no longer than 75 minutes. Each meeting will focus on one of six skills: 1. Requesting an interpreter; 2. Communicating with a health care facility by telephone; 3. Scheduling appointments; 4. Traveling to health care facilities and registering with the front desk; 5. Obtaining appointments with specialists; 6. Calling 911 for an ambulance. Each meeting will follow a pre-specified plan that will typically include welcoming activities, a review of prior material, introduction of new material, and a series of activities (e.g., role play) to practice key skills. Sessions will be interactive, culturally-appropriate, and held in parents' preferred language.

Conditions

• Immigrant Caregiver Health Care Navigation for Children

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Group-based educational intervention	The group-based educational intervention will use a bilingual Community Health Worker (CHW) who will teach parents key skills needed to access health care for children. Parents will be invited to attend 6 small, closed-group sessions held over 12 weeks and lasting no more than 75 minutes. Sessions will be interactive, culturally-appropriate, and held in parents' preferred language.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-12-17
• Primary completion: 2022-09-01
• Completion: 2022-09-01
• First posted: 2018-10-25
• Last updated: 2023-01-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States