OurChild: A Health IT Solution to Reduce Minority Health Disparities
NYU Langone Health
Summary
Chinese American immigrant families are a fast-growing immigrant group with unmet early childhood mental health needs. The team proposes to design, build, and implement OurChild, an integrated mHealth/EHR solution to increase access to early childhood mental health knowledge and mental health services and resources for Chinese American children ages 2-6 years old and their parents in the Sunset Park Brooklyn.
Description
The goal of this study is to reduce health disparities by designing a digital solution (OurChild) that facilitates connection and bidirectional exchange of information across the cultural, contextual, language, and setting differences that are key barriers to early childhood mental health knowledge and care access for the Chinese American community in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The first study aim is to iteratively design, build, and test OurChild. To do this, the team will 1) collaborate with family, clinical, and community stakeholders to conduct an early childhood mental health context/needs an…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 2+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria: * Child must be 24 to 72 months old * Child must have been receiving pediatric primary care at the 7th Ave FHC for at least 6 months * Child must be identified as Chinese and/or preferred language is Chinese in EHR * Parents must be at least 18 years old * Parents must be the child's parent/legal guardian * Parents must be able and willing to provide informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Siblings and parents of previously enrolled children * Parents who do not have access to an iOS or Android smartphone
Interventions
- OtherOurChild mHealth Digital Platform
The intervention being created and tested in this study is OurChild an integrated mHealth/EHR app, initially designed for the Chinese American community in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. All participants will be assigned to either beta versions undergoing development, or to version 1.0.
Location
- NYU Langone HealthNew York, New York