Strengthening Families and Reducing Risk Thru Developmental and Legal Collaboration

Completed · Phase 2/Phase 3

Conditions studied: Parenting, Child Rearing, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Development

In brief

Project Dulce is designed to test a new approach to delivering family support, in the context of the primary care medical home. The target population to be served is infants between birth and 6 months old and their families who receive primary care at Boston Medical Center. A 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. The control group will receive training on safe sleep and safe transportation for their newborn.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01343940

Run by

Boston Medical Center

People needed

402

Starts

2011-02-01

Expected to finish

2013-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-05-18

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 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.

You may not qualify if…

• 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.

Where it is running

• Boston Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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