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A Community-Based Implementation of The Family Check-up Is Associated with Lower Pediatric Emergency Room Utilization and Acute Care Services: A Health Service Utilization and Cost Analysis Study
Abstract
A large number of studies have shown that the brief three session Family Check-Up intervention is effective in promoting children’s social and behavioral development and in reducing problem behaviors. Research in this area has begun to examine the effectiveness of this program through real-world implementation studies. This brief report describes how a community-based implementation of the Family Check-Up is associated with reduced healthcare utilization, specifically acute care services including emergency department, inpatient, and urgent care utilization. Future implementation trials may benefit from including administrative data to examine the outcomes of the Family Check-Up in conjunction with cost and service utilization data.
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BibTeX
@misc{schweercollins2026communitybased,
title = {{A Community-Based Implementation of The Family Check-up Is Associated with Lower Pediatric Emergency Room Utilization and Acute Care Services: A Health Service Utilization and Cost Analysis Study}},
author = {Maria Schweer-Collins and Jonathan Woodward and Elizabeth Stormshak},
howpublished = {PsyArXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.31234/osf.io/c36dj_v2},
url = {https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/c36dj_v2/},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - A Community-Based Implementation of The Family Check-up Is Associated with Lower Pediatric Emergency Room Utilization and Acute Care Services: A Health Service Utilization and Cost Analysis Study
AU - Maria Schweer-Collins
AU - Jonathan Woodward
AU - Elizabeth Stormshak
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/30
PB - PsyArXiv
DO - 10.31234/osf.io/c36dj_v2
UR - https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/c36dj_v2/
AB - A large number of studies have shown that the brief three session Family Check-Up intervention is effective in promoting children’s social and behavioral development and in reducing problem behaviors. Research in this area has begun to examine the effectiveness of this program through real-world implementation studies. This brief report describes how a community-based implementation of the Family Check-Up is associated with reduced healthcare utilization, specifically acute care services including emergency department, inpatient, and urgent care utilization. Future implementation trials may benefit from including administrative data to examine the outcomes of the Family Check-Up in conjunction with cost and service utilization data.
ER -