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- Clinical Trial NCT05730075
The Home-Based Child Care Toolkit for Nurturing School-Age Children Pilot Study
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Detailed Description
Home-based child care (HBCC), or child care and early education (CCEE) offered in a provider's or child's home, is the most common form of nonparental child care in the United States and is essential for many families. Families of color, those from immigrant backgrounds, those with low incomes who work nontraditional hours, and those living in rural areas are more likely to use HBCC than center-based care.
However, existing quality measures used in HBCC settings are often based on or designed to parallel measures of center-based CCEE. These measures may miss important features of HBCC, such as ways this CCEE meets the needs of families and features that may support positive outcomes for these children and families.
The Home-Based Child Care Supply and Quality (HBCCSQ) project being conducted by Mathematica and Erikson Institute is developing a Home-Based Child Care Toolkit for Nurturing School-Age Children. The toolkit, which contains questionnaires for providers and families, will help HBCC providers who care for at least one school-age child (age 5 and in kindergarten, or ages 6 through 12) in a home setting identify and reflect on their strengths and areas of growth related to their caregiving practices and how they partner with children's families. The purpose of this study is to test the toolkit and ensure its appropriateness for HBCC providers with diverse characteristics and for families who receive care from an HBCC provider.
This pilot study will test the HBCC-NSAC Toolkit in two phases, (1) a pre-test of the Spanish version of the provider questionnaire and the Spanish and English versions of the family questionnaire and (2) a pilot of the full HBCC-NSAC Toolkit (in English and Spanish) and related recruitment and data collection procedures.
In phase one, the study team will recruit up to 9 purposively selected Spanish speaking HBCC providers to complete the Spanish version of the provider questionnaire. Up to 9 Spanish speaking families and up to 9 English speaking families will be purposively selected to complete the family questionnaire. The study team then will conduct a cognitive interview with each provider and family respondent.
In phase two, the study team will recruit 150 purposively selected providers from diverse backgrounds to complete the provider questionnaire. The study team will ask providers to recruit one or more families to complete the family questionnaire on paper, for a total of up to 150 families.
Results from the pilot study will be used to provide initial evidence of the psychometric properties of the items and potentially refine the study instrument for use with a larger number of providers and families in a future validation study.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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District of Columbia
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20002
- Mathematica Policy Research
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Sampling Method
Study Population
Description
Inclusion criteria:
- Home-based child care providers who care for at least one school-age child (age 5 and in kindergarten, or ages 6 through 12) in a home setting for at least 10 hours per week (within the past year).
- The families must be the primary caregivers of school-age children who receive care in a home-based child care setting for at least 10 hours per week.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Child care providers who do not care for at least one school-age child in a home setting for at least 10 hours per week.
- Primary caregivers (families) who do not have school-age children who receive child care in a home for at least 10 hours per week.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
Cohorts and Interventions
Group / Cohort |
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Phase 1 HBCC providers
This group will include up to 9 Spanish-speaking HBCC providers, who will receive the Spanish version of the provider questionnaire.
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Phase 1 families
This group will include up to 9 Spanish speaking families and up to 9 English speaking families who will each receive the family questionnaire and who will participate in cognitive interviews.
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2 HBCC providers
This group will include 150 purposively selected providers from diverse backgrounds who will each complete the provider questionnaire and will also be asked to recruit one or more families to complete the family questionnaire.
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Phase 2 families
This group will include up to 150 purposively selected families who will each receive the family questionnaire.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
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The Home-Based Child Care Toolkit for Nurturing School-Age Children
Time Frame: 12 months
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We will assess the validity of the scale by administering the toolkit to HBCCs and families receiving home-based child care.
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12 months
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Collaborators and Investigators
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Sally Atkins-Burnett, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
- Study Director: Patricia Del Grosso, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
- Study Director: Ashley Kopack Klein, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Study record dates
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Study Start (Actual)
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Study Completion (Actual)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
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Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
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More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
Other Study ID Numbers
- 50884
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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