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Infants and toddlers with developmental disabilities or delays use early intervention (EI) for rehabilitation services. Yet, poor quality of EI services is pervasive, particularly for racially and ethnically diverse and socially disadvantaged families. A key lever to improve EI quality is family-centered care, an evidence-based approach that is grounded in family engagement for shared decision-making. This project is motivated by the need to give families a smart and connected option for engaging in the design of the EI service plan for their child. This project upgrades and tests an evidence-based and innovative electronic solution that helps families to organize and share their priorities for change and ideas for goal attainment with professionals, so as to ensure fit of the service plan with their needs.


Clinical Trial Description

Infants and toddlers with developmental disabilities or delays use early intervention (EI) for rehabilitation services. Yet, poor quality of EI services is pervasive, particularly for racially and ethnically diverse and socially disadvantaged families. A key lever to improve EI quality is family-centered care, an evidence-based approach that is grounded in family engagement for shared decision-making. This project further develops and evaluates the Participation and Environment Measure (PEM), an electronic option for family-centered EI service design that has two parts: 1) an evidence-based and promising electronic patient-reported outcome (e-PRO) assessment called the Young Children's Participation and Environment Measure (YC-PEM), and 2) a prototypic goal setting application called Participation and and Environment Measure Plus (PEM+). This project builds on published evidence for its feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of the YC-PEM e-PRO, when paired with a program-specific decision-support tool, on EI service quality. EI stakeholder perspectives on salient supports, barriers, and strategies signal its viability for broader early intervention service system implementation. One important optimization involves expanding its reach to historically minoritized families. This project will be accomplished in 3 aims: 1. The PEM assessment and intervention content will be culturally adapted to amplify the assessment and consideration of racial climate on young children's participation in activities during the design of an EI service plan (i.e., make content more relevant for racially and ethnically diverse EI families). 2. Artificial intelligence (AI) will be applied to personalize the user experience of the PEM intervention to a broader range of EI enrolled families (i.e., leverage the power of natural language processing as a form of AI, to individualize the PEM intervention to caregivers in two ways). 3. The team will evaluate the effectiveness of the upgraded PEM electronic option to improve caregiver perceptions of family-centered service quality, improve parent engagement in EI service plan implementation, and increase the proportion of participation-focused EI service plans. EI family and provider perspectives will be obtained on supports, barriers, and strategies to its broader implementation in the early intervention service system. ;


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NCT number NCT06458959
Study type Interventional
Source University of Illinois at Chicago
Contact Mary A Khetani
Phone 3129960942
Email mkhetani@uic.edu
Status Not yet recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date September 1, 2024
Completion date December 30, 2024

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