Community Healthy Workers Fill in the Gaps for Participants Who Became Lost to Follow-up in a Healthy Start Program
| العنوان: | Community Healthy Workers Fill in the Gaps for Participants Who Became Lost to Follow-up in a Healthy Start Program |
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| المؤلفون: | Sanuri Gunawardena, Jordan Rasp, Varonica Caldwell, Rose A. Maxwell |
| المصدر: | Maternal and Child Health Journal. 25:1829-1835 |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | medicine.medical_specialty, Epidemiology, Family support, Student Status, Health Promotion, Prenatal care, Healthy start, Pregnancy, Surveys and Questionnaires, Humans, Medicine, Community health workers, Lost to follow-up, Child, Community Health Workers, Contingency plan, business.industry, Public health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Prenatal Care, Family medicine, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Female, Lost to Follow-Up, business |
| الوصف: | The purpose of this mixed methods study was to solicit information from Community Health Workers (CHWs) in order to further understand reasons for Healthy Start participants becoming lost to follow-up after delivery. Four CHWs from a local Healthy Start Program completed questionnaires for participants in their caseloads who had become lost to follow-up from the program (n = 146) between Sep 2018 and Jan 2020. The questionnaire included open ended items about ease of contact before and after delivery, changes in contact information, compliance with prenatal care visits, other life challenges (such as housing, legal, transportation, and family support), family size, living arrangements, working/student status, and substance use. Participants were categorized by ease of contact throughout participation into Easy (28.8%), Easy then Difficult (11%) and Difficult (60.3%). Responses to questions were reviewed and coded to identify common themes. Groups differed on: having a change in contact information, having challenges with transportation, having lots of help, having other children between 6 and 10 years old, compliance with prenatal care, and race being non-Black. Areas where groups differed may indicate possible reasons for participants becoming lost to follow up after delivery. The descriptive results from this study can help CHWs address these issues with participants during prenatal care, when they are easier to contact, to develop contingency plans for remaining in contact after delivery. |
| تدمد: | 1573-6628 1092-7875 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::447b72606a6e27e278a7a7b8a805ab19 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-021-03264-7 |
| حقوق: | CLOSED |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....447b72606a6e27e278a7a7b8a805ab19 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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