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Learning Collaborative Events With Child Welfare and Health Care Providers Improve Systems Knowledge and Intent to Change
INTRODUCTION: Children in foster care are at higher risk of health problems. These risks present challenges to achieving permanency, safety, and well-being. Despite efforts to improve the systems serving children in foster care, gaps remain in achieving timely and quality health services. Based on s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8512211/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34632856 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21501327211048359 |
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author | Scheid, Jeanette M. Sarinopoulos, Issidoros Cameron, Sierra Tanner, Clare |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Children in foster care are at higher risk of health problems. These risks present challenges to achieving permanency, safety, and well-being. Despite efforts to improve the systems serving children in foster care, gaps remain in achieving timely and quality health services. Based on stakeholder reports that health care provider knowledge about child welfare systems is a barrier to care, the Fostering Health Partnerships project conducted 2-session learning collaborative events across Michigan. The project team hypothesized that participants would increase knowledge of child welfare policy and that physician participants would identify and commit to practice change to improve health care services to children in foster care. METHODS: Learning collaborative events included an in-person session followed by a live webinar session. Participants included child welfare professionals, physicians, and other health care representatives. Participants completed surveys assessing knowledge about child welfare health policy. Physician participants completed a post-event interview. The investigators used pre- and post-intervention survey design and qualitative evaluation of physician interview data to assess the impact of the learning collaborative events on knowledge and practice. RESULTS: A total of 781 individuals attended the initial session and 383 attended the second session of 36 events for 80 counties in Michigan. 247 individuals completed pre- and post-event surveys and 7 physicians completed interviews after the events. Survey data showed that event participants demonstrated increased knowledge of child welfare policy related to health (P < .001). Interviewed physicians reported making practice changes to improve health care services and indicated that the events were valuable though time intensive. CONCLUSION: An abbreviated learning collaborative process is an effective tool to improve knowledge and drive practice change. Future efforts will build on this project to improve access, coordination, and quality health services for children in foster care. |
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spelling | pubmed-85122112021-10-14 Learning Collaborative Events With Child Welfare and Health Care Providers Improve Systems Knowledge and Intent to Change Scheid, Jeanette M. Sarinopoulos, Issidoros Cameron, Sierra Tanner, Clare J Prim Care Community Health Original Research INTRODUCTION: Children in foster care are at higher risk of health problems. These risks present challenges to achieving permanency, safety, and well-being. Despite efforts to improve the systems serving children in foster care, gaps remain in achieving timely and quality health services. Based on stakeholder reports that health care provider knowledge about child welfare systems is a barrier to care, the Fostering Health Partnerships project conducted 2-session learning collaborative events across Michigan. The project team hypothesized that participants would increase knowledge of child welfare policy and that physician participants would identify and commit to practice change to improve health care services to children in foster care. METHODS: Learning collaborative events included an in-person session followed by a live webinar session. Participants included child welfare professionals, physicians, and other health care representatives. Participants completed surveys assessing knowledge about child welfare health policy. Physician participants completed a post-event interview. The investigators used pre- and post-intervention survey design and qualitative evaluation of physician interview data to assess the impact of the learning collaborative events on knowledge and practice. RESULTS: A total of 781 individuals attended the initial session and 383 attended the second session of 36 events for 80 counties in Michigan. 247 individuals completed pre- and post-event surveys and 7 physicians completed interviews after the events. Survey data showed that event participants demonstrated increased knowledge of child welfare policy related to health (P < .001). Interviewed physicians reported making practice changes to improve health care services and indicated that the events were valuable though time intensive. CONCLUSION: An abbreviated learning collaborative process is an effective tool to improve knowledge and drive practice change. Future efforts will build on this project to improve access, coordination, and quality health services for children in foster care. SAGE Publications 2021-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8512211/ /pubmed/34632856 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21501327211048359 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Scheid, Jeanette M. Sarinopoulos, Issidoros Cameron, Sierra Tanner, Clare Learning Collaborative Events With Child Welfare and Health Care Providers Improve Systems Knowledge and Intent to Change |
title | Learning Collaborative Events With Child Welfare and Health Care
Providers Improve Systems Knowledge and Intent to Change |
title_full | Learning Collaborative Events With Child Welfare and Health Care
Providers Improve Systems Knowledge and Intent to Change |
title_fullStr | Learning Collaborative Events With Child Welfare and Health Care
Providers Improve Systems Knowledge and Intent to Change |
title_full_unstemmed | Learning Collaborative Events With Child Welfare and Health Care
Providers Improve Systems Knowledge and Intent to Change |
title_short | Learning Collaborative Events With Child Welfare and Health Care
Providers Improve Systems Knowledge and Intent to Change |
title_sort | learning collaborative events with child welfare and health care
providers improve systems knowledge and intent to change |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8512211/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34632856 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21501327211048359 |
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