Family‐centred early intervention: Comparing practitioners' actual and desired practices
| Autor: | Anna Balcells-Balcells, Climent Giné, Simón García-Ventura, Joana Maria Mas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Medical education
Point (typography) Process (engineering) 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Context (language use) Additional research 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Spain Surveys and Questionnaires 030225 pediatrics Intervention (counseling) Scale (social sciences) Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Agency (sociology) Early Intervention Educational Developmental and Educational Psychology Family centred Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Child: Care, Health and Development. 47:218-227 |
| ISSN: | 1365-2214 0305-1862 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/cch.12834 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND In Spain, as in other countries, there has been a deep and intense process of change towards the adoption and use of family-centred practices (FCPs) on early intervention (EI). Despite that several international organizations have recommended FCPs be embedded in EI services, researchers on this field have highlighted a recommendation-implementation gap, as well as the need to point investigation on practitioners and intervention variables involved. Consequently, our goals were to describe and compare the practitioners' appraisals on actual and desired practices in Spain and to explore the relationships between practitioners and intervention characteristics and the use of recommended practices. METHODS A survey including practitioner and intervention characteristics measures was used to obtain data needed. The actual and desired practices were explored through the Family Orientation of Community and Agency Services Scale. The participants were 119 EI Spanish practitioners whose programmes were in the first stages of different FCP implementation projects. RESULTS Practitioners reported actual practices to be less family centred than they would like, moderately in line with FCP. They reported desired practices as quite close to recommended practices. Intervention characteristics were related to actual practices, whereas practitioner characteristics were not. CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that the recommendation-implementation gap still exists in our context, as well as in other countries. Intervention characteristics seem to be one of the key elements significantly influencing actual practices, though additional research is needed. A comprehensive framework for implementation is needed to bridge the gap between recommendation practices and the use of these practices. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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