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- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT01343940
Strengthening Families and Reducing Risk Thru Developmental and Legal Collaboration (dulce)
Project Dulce: Developmental Understanding and Legal Collaboration for Everyone
Study Overview
Status
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Subjects for project dulce will be recruited from parents who receive their newborn child's primary pediatric care from Boston Medical Center's Pediatric Primary Care Clinic. Subjects will be randomized to receive the study intervention or the control.
Project dulce will provide a family partner to parents of infants up to six months of age. The dulce family partner (DFP) will be trained using the Healthy Steps model, an evidence-based approach to support parent understanding of child development, and by Medical Legal Partnership|Boston to identify legal and social needs that may affect a child's health and development. The dulce family partner will reach infants and families through their routine health care visits during their first six months of life and provide them with support for unmet legal needs, screen infants for developmental problems, screen families for mental health problems, and improve families' knowledge of child development. Families will meet with the DFP at the initial visit, at their subsequent routine healthcare maintenance visits, and during home visits if they wish.
Families in the control group will receive safety education from a trained staff member on safe sleep and safe transportation, at two of their baby's routine well-child visits between 1 and 6 months of age.
Subjects will answer two sets of standard survey questions before and after intervention / control. The infant's electronic medical record will be reviewed up to the first year. This study will test whether the project dulce intervention promotes positive outcomes for children and families, and reduces risks and adverse outcomes. The results of this rigorous program evaluation may be used to support dissemination of project dulce to other primary care sites throughout the country.
PROJECT GOALS 1. Assess whether the highly-structured dulce intervention results in: improved individual and family strengths, reduced risks, and decreased likelihood of child maltreatment. 2. Provide system-level information to assess the costs, resource needs, barriers, and benefits that come from implementing the dulce model within a patient-centered medical home. 3. In addition to the project's research goals, we will collect aggregated Child Protective Service (CPS) community-wide data regarding childhood injury and maltreatment, as is requested by funder.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Phase 2
- Phase 3
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Massachusetts
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02127
- Boston Medical Center
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
- Child
- Adult
- Older Adult
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- The patient family must include an infant, or infants for families with multiples, born 10 weeks or less prior to recruitment.
- The newborn(s) must be healthy, having been born without known defects or complications that would require early hospitalization.
- The infant must have been discharged from hospital within one week.
- At the time of recruitment, the parent/guardian will have communicated their intent to obtain their newborn infant's primary pediatric care through Boston Medical Center's (BMC's) Primary Pediatric Care Clinic (PPCC).
- The child's parent/guardian must be able to engage in an informed consent process conducted in English or Spanish.
- The child's parent/guardian must be able to complete a questionnaire and/or interview (with or without assistance) in English or Spanish.
Exclusion Criteria:
- The participating parent/guardian is under 18 years of age. As SOC at BMC, mothers under the age of 18 are seen in the The Teen and Tot Program (TTP), a specialized program located within BMC's Adolescent Center.
- The parent/guardian is unable to participate in required data collection activities in the study languages, even with assistance.
- The child/family's physician believes that participation in the evaluation would adversely affect the child/family's health or well being or the ongoing delivery of health care services. Decision will be made based on the physician's clinical judgment. All physicians have the opportunity to opt their patients out.
- The family is already receiving services from another family partner program such as Project RISE, Healthy Steps, etc. through the BMC primary care center.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Prevention
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Single
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Dulce family partner intervention
Participating families are assigned to a legal/developmental specialist who joins health care team during well-child visits and home visits.
The specialist (a "Dulce family partner") supports parent around child development issues, addresses unmet basic needs (e.g., housing, utilities, food, etc.), and makes referral to existing agencies and services.
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Participating families are assigned to a legal/developmental specialist who joins health care team during well-child visits and home visits.
The specialist (a "Dulce family partner") supports parent around child development issues, addresses unmet basic needs (e.g., housing, utilities, food, etc.), and makes referral to existing agencies and services.
Specialist meets with family during all routine well-child visits scheduled in primary care between birth and 6 months (1-mo, 2-mo, 4-mo, 6-mo).
Parent may meet with specialist before or after scheduled appointment, and may request a home visit.
Specialist will be available by phone for consultation.
Other Names:
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Active Comparator: Safety intervention
Participating family is assigned a safety specialist who will provide the parent with guidance, equipment and instruction to reduce risk of newborn injury during transport (car seat) and while sleeping (Pack-and-Play).
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Participating family is assigned a safety specialist.
Meeting with the safety specialist will occur before or after a routine well-child visit or at a separately agreed upon time.
The specialist will discuss infant injury risks associated with transportation and sleep.
The specialist will provide safety equipment (car seat and pack-and-play) and instruct the parent in their proper use.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change from baseline in number of child maltreatment protective factors available to caregiver at 6 months, as measured on the Quality Improvement Center on Early Childhood (QIC) "Caregivers Assessment of Protective Factors"
Time Frame: t1 (Baseline): at recruitment, prior to intervention; and t2: 6 months later
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Paper-and-pencil questionnaire completed by child's caregiver
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t1 (Baseline): at recruitment, prior to intervention; and t2: 6 months later
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Change from baseline in number and amount of income supports available to and accessed by caregiver at 6 months, as measured on the Quality Improvement Center on Early Childhood (QIC) "Self-Report Family Inventory" + supplementary questions on $ value
Time Frame: t1 (Baseline): at recruitment, prior to intervention; and t2: 6 months later
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Paper-and-pencil questionnaire completed by child's caregiver
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t1 (Baseline): at recruitment, prior to intervention; and t2: 6 months later
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Change from baseline in social capital available to caregiver at 6 months, as measured on the Quality Improvement Center on Early Childhood (QIC) "Social Network Grid"
Time Frame: t1 (Baseline): at recruitment, prior to intervention; and t2: 6 months later
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Paper-and-pencil questionnaire completed by child's caregiver working with reasearch interviewer.
Adapted from: Tracy, EM & Whittaker, JK (1990).
The Social Network Map: Assessing social support in clinical social work practice.
Families in Society, 71(8), 461-470.
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t1 (Baseline): at recruitment, prior to intervention; and t2: 6 months later
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Change from baseline in parental stress at 6 months, as measured by the "Parenting Stress Index (PSI) - long form"
Time Frame: t1 (Baseline): at recruitment, prior to intervention; and t2: 6 months later
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Paper-and-pencil instrument completed by child's caregiver
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t1 (Baseline): at recruitment, prior to intervention; and t2: 6 months later
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Change from baseline in parenting and child-rearing attitudes of child's caregiver at 6 months, as measured on the "Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory(AAPI-2)"
Time Frame: t1 (Baseline): at recruitment, prior to intervention; and t2: 6 months later
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Paper-and-pencil instrument completed by child's caregiver; 40 Likert-type items.
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t1 (Baseline): at recruitment, prior to intervention; and t2: 6 months later
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Robert D Sege, MD, PhD, Boston University
- Study Director: Edward De Vos, EdD, William James College
Publications and helpful links
General Publications
- Sege R, Preer G, Morton SJ, Cabral H, Morakinyo O, Lee V, Abreu C, De Vos E, Kaplan-Sanoff M. Medical-Legal Strategies to Improve Infant Health Care: A Randomized Trial. Pediatrics. 2015 Jul;136(1):97-106. doi: 10.1542/peds.2014-2955. Epub 2015 Jun 1.
- Sege R., Kaplan-Sanoff M., Morton S., Velasco-Hodgson M.C., Preer G., Morakinyo G., De Vos E., Krathen J. Project DULCE: Strengthening families through enhanced primary care. The Journal of Zero to Three. Vol 35(1):10-18, September 2014.
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start
Primary Completion (Actual)
Study Completion (Actual)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Estimate)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Estimate)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Other Study ID Numbers
- H-29958
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
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