Implementation and Evaluation of Bright Futures Curriculum Within CORNET Continuity Practice
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00658489 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : April 15, 2008
Last Update Posted : November 11, 2011
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Dental Health Iron Deficiency | Behavioral: Education | Not Applicable |
"Bright Futures" offers a child and family-centered approach to health promotion in incorporating partnership and communication skills of providers. Two areas of importance are promotion of oral health and prevention of iron deficiency. Residents will be randomized to one of these two groups and will receive web-based education about that particular topic. Residents randomized to group 1 will receive training consisting of 7 modules: 3 on the Bright Futures concepts and 4 on oral health promotion. They will be trained in performing an oral health assessment, identifying caries, and encouraged to establish a dental home for patients. They must communicate with at least one dental practice in the community to determine barriers to care, issues regarding insurance, potential solutions to improve referral, and access to dental care. Residents in group 2 will complete a single educational module on the identification and prevention of iron deficiency. They will be trained to identify iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia, understand risk prevention strategies, improved methods of identification, and treatment.
Each resident will recruit 3 patients, children between the ages of 12-35 months, for whom he/she is the primary care provider. Each parent-child dyad will participate in one well-child care visit. Each visit will be observed by a faculty preceptor.
This study design was chosen to compare a more sophisticated and time-intensive curriculum to a more modest one. By having a curriculum with minimal overlap between the two groups, the investigators hope to examine the knowledge obtained by the residents, which health promotion aspects they address during their encounters, and to compare the establishment of a dental home in the two groups of patients.
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 10 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Prevention |
Official Title: | Implementation and Evaluation of Bright Futures Curriculum Within CORNET Continuity Practice |
Study Start Date : | January 2008 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | May 2010 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | May 2010 |
Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Active Comparator: 1
Residents randomized to the promotion of oral health group will receive training consisting of 7 modules (3 on the Bright Futures curriculum and 4 on oral health promotion). They will then enroll 3 patient-child dyads from their practice who present for a well child care visit. Outcomes will be obtained by completing pre- and post-study surveys. Residents will be observed by a faculty preceptor during 3 different patient encounters, and will receive feedback at the end of the 6 month study period.
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Behavioral: Education
One group of residents will receive extensive web-based training in the promotion of oral health. The second group of residents will complete a single training module in the prevention of iron deficiency. The third arm consists of parent-child dyads, who will participate in one well-child care visit. |
Active Comparator: 2
Residents randomized to the prevention of iron deficiency group will complete one web-based module.
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Behavioral: Education
One group of residents will receive extensive web-based training in the promotion of oral health. The second group of residents will complete a single training module in the prevention of iron deficiency. The third arm consists of parent-child dyads, who will participate in one well-child care visit. |
- Residents will receive the direct benefit of exposure to a new curriculum and feedback on performance by their preceptor. Parents will benefit from greater access to their primary care providers. [ Time Frame: 6 months ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 12 Months to 35 Months (Child) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Children ages 12-35 months
Exclusion Criteria:
- None

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00658489
Principal Investigator: | Shirley Klein, MD | Christiana Care Health Services |
Responsible Party: | Christiana Care Health Services |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00658489 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
27092 DDD#504887 |
First Posted: | April 15, 2008 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | November 11, 2011 |
Last Verified: | November 2011 |
Anemia, Iron-Deficiency Anemia, Hypochromic Anemia |
Hematologic Diseases Iron Metabolism Disorders Metabolic Diseases |