Intervention Clinical Trial
Official title:
CONNECTING FAMILIES: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Primary Care Poverty Screening and Financial Support Navigation for Families of Young Children
Living in poverty has a profound negative impact on parenting stress and children's health. When poverty occurs early in childhood and continues for a long time, the impact on child health can be lifelong. Child poverty is common, affecting about 20% of Canadian children. Many low income families may not be receiving all the social benefits for which they are eligible. There are calls for primary care providers to ask patients if they have difficulty making ends meet at the end of the month and to intervene if poverty is identified, but it is not known if intervening can improve parent's and children's health. This study will test whether a Community Support Worker who helps families with young children navigate the social service system by reviewing social needs (like food, housing or energy insecurity) and income supports can lead to increased family income, reduced parenting stress and an improvement in their child's health. The Community Support Worker will help families complete income tax, apply for benefits and community supports for which they are eligible. The investigators will also study the effect of this intervention on health care utilization. Our study will be conducted in Toronto and Kingston in primary care practices participating in the TARGet Kids! primary care research network. Results from this study will help health care providers and policy makers understand whether Community Support Workers are an effective way to integrate the health and social service systems to improve parent and child health.
Status | Recruiting |
Enrollment | 80 |
Est. completion date | December 2025 |
Est. primary completion date | December 2025 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | All |
Age group | 1 Day to 3 Years |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - Parents of children (younger than 3 years) attending a regularly scheduled primary care visit. - Parents respond affirmatively to the question "Do you ever have difficulty making ends meet at the end of the month?" - Informed parental consent. Only one child will be enrolled per family. For families with more than one child, we will enroll the youngest eligible child, since literature suggests that impact of reducing family stress may be greater at younger ages; for multiple births, one child will be randomly selected for inclusion. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Parents without legal status in Canada, as they are not eligible for many Canadian social programs. 2. Families who are receiving system navigation support, such as from a social worker or public health nurse, or who have received system navigation support within one year prior to enrolment. 3. Child with a previously diagnosed developmental disorder, genetic, chromosomal or syndromic condition. 4. Child born prematurely (gestational age less than 32 weeks). |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Canada | Queen's Family Health Team | Kingston | Ontario |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Queen's University |
Canada,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Parenting Stress Index- Short Form 4 | A 36-item parent-completed questionnaire assessing overall level of stress a person is feeling in their role as a parent. Scoring yields an overall stress score (range 36-180, with higher scores indicating greater stress) and sub-scores for Parental Distress, Parent-Child Dysfunctional Interaction and Difficult Child (each with range of 5-60) which are summed to generate the total score. . | 6 months | |
Secondary | Self Reported Household Income | Self Reported Household Income from all sources | 6 months, 12 months | |
Secondary | Participant use of community resources | This is a study specific instrument which assesses participants' receipt of a comprehensive suite of financial benefits (including specific income tax benefits, benefits through social assistance programs) and receipt of emergency food services, childcare subsidy, energy assistance, support for medication and dental costs and housing needs. | 6 months, 12 months | |
Secondary | Household food security | 18-item Household Food Security Survey Module, asks about the household's experiences of food insecurity during the previous year. Higher scores indicate increased food insecurity and households are classified as food secure, marginally food insecure, moderately food insecure or severely food insecure. | 6 months, 12 months | |
Secondary | Social Needs | WE Care Survey, s a 10-item questionnaire assessing needs in 4 domains (economic stability, education, neighborhood & physical environment, and food) and whether participants want help with identified needs.. | 6 months, 12 months | |
Secondary | Parent Depression | Patient Health Questionnaire - 9, a 9 item self completed instrument measuring symptoms of depression (range 0-27 with higher scores indicating worse outcome). | 6 months, 12 months | |
Secondary | Parent anxiety | Generalized Anxiety Disorders-7, a 7 item self completed instrument measuring symptoms of anxiety (range 0-21, with higher scores indicating worse outcome). | 6 months, 12 months | |
Secondary | Child Social- Emotional Development | Ages and Stages: Social Emotional, age specific parent completed questionnaires assessing the child's social and emotional development, in which higher scores indicate better outcomes. | 6 months,12 months | |
Secondary | Child general development | Ages and Stages-3: age specific parent completed questionnaires assessing the child's s development in 5 developmental areas (Communication, Gross Motor, Fine Motor, Problem Solving, Personal Social), in which higher scores indicate better outcomes. | 6 months, 12 months | |
Secondary | Pediatric health system utilization | Through linkage with health administrative databases, the investigators will assess differences in health services utilization. The following administrative databases will be used: Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) which includes physician billings (fee for service and shadow billing) for physician visits, the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS) which includes data on emergency department visits, and the Discharge Abstracts Database (DAD) which includes data on inpatient hospitalizations. We will assess between-group differences in primary care visits, low acuity emergency department visits (CTAS 3-5), number of hospitalizations and length of stay.For children, primary care visits will be categorized as well-child visits (which may appropriately increase) and other visits (which may be reduced). | 6 months, 12 months | |
Secondary | Parent health system utilization | Through linkage with health administrative databases, the investigators will assess differences in health services utilization. The following administrative databases will be used: Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) which includes physician billings (fee for service and shadow billing) for physician visits, the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS) which includes data on emergency department visits, and the Discharge Abstracts Database (DAD) which includes data on inpatient hospitalizations.We will assess between-group differences in primary care visits, low acuity emergency department visits (CTAS 3-5), number of hospitalizations and length of stay. | 6 months, 12 months |
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