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Filter by:Although the efficacy of early intervention (EI) for autistic children and their families has been established, many marginalized families with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds still report inequitable access to evidence-based practices (EBP). There are several strategies to increase EBP implementation that are especially relevant to marginalized families who report inequitable access to coaching from EI providers, such as increasing the capacity of EI providers to coach families in a culturally responsive way. However, EI providers are provided with limited professional development in both family coaching and cultural responsiveness, which results in perpetuation of EBP implementation failure. Thus, it is crucial to develop and validate an implementation toolkit that comprises strategies to enhance cultural responsiveness in the uptake of EBPs among EI providers. Therefore, the overall purpose of this research is to identify facilitators and barriers of EBP implementation among marginalized families in EI to aid the development an implementation toolkit with a focus on capacity building of EI providers to implement EBP with cultural responsiveness. This will involve conducting individual interviews with EI providers.
This is a cross-sectional study of a randomized clinical trial to investigate nutritional aspects of pre-scholar aged children born preterm submitted to an early stimulation program versus conventional care program. The preterm-born children participated in the project entitle "Early Intervention Program for Preterm Infants and Their Parents: establishing the impact at 18 Months Corrected Age" (NCT02835612), which performed a continuous early stimulation in very and extremely preterm infant's families in their first 12 to 18 months. In the present study, preterm born children currently with 3 to 6 years old and their mothers (or legal guardian) are once more invited to a one-day visit for a nutritional and clinical evaluation at the Clinical Research Center of Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre/Brazil. In the consultation, preterm born children and theirs mothers are submitted to the following exams: body composition by electrical bioimpedance, clinical and physical evaluation, anthropometric measurements, and children's eating habits, eating behavior and parental educational style in food through specific questionnaires. Moreover, this study will also investigate a group of pre-scholar health children born at term to obtain reference values for variables analysed. The goal with these findings is to determine if an early stimulation program could present a positive impact in anthropometric outcomes and nutritional aspects in this more vulnerable preterm born population.