Parents' health and demographic characteristics predict noncompliance with well-child visits

The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice
Ishani JhanjeeDwenda K Gjerdingen

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate factors related to well-child visit noncompliance in an ethnically diverse family practice clinic population. Participants included 146 parents (131 mothers and 15 fathers) of children aged 0 to 24 months who received care at a St. Paul residency clinic. Participants completed telephone surveys that asked about their demographic characteristics, attitudes toward well-child visits, whether the most recent planned well-child visit had been kept, and their own and their child's health characteristics. All participants thought that well-child visits were important, with immunizations being the highest rated reason for importance. Fourteen percent of parents said they had missed a recent well-child visit, mostly because they forgot. More than three fourths of parents believed visit reminders were helpful, and the preferred type of reminder was a telephone call. Noncompliance with well-child visits was associated with the parent's depressive symptoms, transportation difficulties, working at a job, having private (vs public) health insurance, and being older (vs younger). These results suggest that well-child visit compliance might be enhanced by visit reminders and improved access to trans...Continue Reading

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