Assisting Low-Income Families at Pediatric Well-Child Care Visits

Enhancing a Medical Home for Vulnerable Children by Addressing Family Psychosocial Problems at Well-Child Care Visits: THE WE CARE Project

The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact and feasibility of a practice-based intervention on the discussion and referral of family psychosocial topics at well-child care visits at a medical home for low-income children.

Many low-income families have family psychosocial problems such as unemployment, housing difficulties, and food insecurity. Pediatric guidelines that pediatricians should be discussing and assisting these families. However, to date few routine do. The primary hypotheses for this study is that the WE CARE (Well-child care visit, Evaluation, Community resources, Advocacy, Referral, Education)intervention would increase the discussion and referral rates for family psychosocial problems at well-child care visits.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Caregivers of children aged 2 months to 10 years who present for well-child care visit at a pediatric clinic

Exclusion Criteria:

• Non-English speaking
• Foster parents
• Previously enrolled parent
• No access to telephone