An interventional study of Group-based educational intervention in Immigrant Caregiver Health Care Navigation for Children, sponsored by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-01-10.
Sponsored by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other
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).
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:
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.
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Exclusion Criteria:
All enrolled caregivers and parents will partake in the group-based educational intervention.
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.
Number of subjects enrolling in study and completing study visits
Enrollment of the target sample and completion of the planned study visits by participants
Time frame: 9 months
Change in retainment of health care navigation skills from baseline
Change in Health Care Navigation Inventory (HCNI) Skills Subscale scores from baseline to post-intervention study visits. Scores can range from 12 to 60, with higher scores indicating better outcomes.
Time frame: 9 months
Plan to share: No
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