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Reducing Disparities in Early Intervention Use: The Opening Doors to Early Intervention Study
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Family Navigator (FN) for Development Delay and Development, Child. Completed, enrolled 357 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Poor urban minority children often experience delays in their early development leading to health disparities. Publicly funded early intervention services are available to improve child development among these children in Philadelphia, but few children access and complete these services. This can be due to parents misunderstanding what the services include or may be due to difficulties parents experience in overcoming barriers to participating. This study will test the effectiveness of the Opening Doors to Early Intervention Program, a patient navigation intervention designed to improve families' engagement with early intervention services and overcome barriers to access these services, on early child development.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
The intervention will be a modified Patient Navigator model, that we will refer to as a Family Navigator (FN) model, that will engage, inform, and assist participating parents to follow-through with the process of EI referrals and services. Eligible children randomized to the intervention arm will be provided with services from a FN. The FN will maintain contact with the family, the child's primary care provider, and Early Intervention staff, if applicable, throughout the duration of the study.