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Advancing early relational health: a collaborative exploration of a research agenda.

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Dumitriu, D; Lavallée, A; Riggs, JL; Frosch, CA; Barker, TV; Best, DL; Blasingame, B; Bushar, J; Charlot-Swilley, D; Erickson, E; Finkel, MA ...
Published in: Front Pediatr
2023

Here, we introduce the Early Relational Health (ERH) Learning Community's bold, large-scale, collaborative, data-driven and practice-informed research agenda focused on furthering our mechanistic understanding of ERH and identifying feasible and effective practices for making ERH promotion a routine and integrated component of pediatric primary care. The ERH Learning Community, formed by a team of parent/caregiver leaders, pediatric care clinicians, researchers, and early childhood development specialists, is a workgroup of Nurture Connection-a hub geared toward promoting ERH, i.e., the positive and nurturing relationship between young children and their parent(s)/caregiver(s), in families and communities nationwide. In response to the current child mental health crisis and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement promoting ERH, the ERH Learning Community held an in-person meeting at the AAP national headquarters in December 2022 where members collaboratively designed an integrated research agenda to advance ERH. This agenda weaves together community partners, clinicians, and academics, melding the principles of participatory engagement and human-centered design, such as early engagement, co-design, iterative feedback, and cultural humility. Here, we present gaps in the ERH literature that prompted this initiative and the co-design activity that led to this novel and iterative community-focused research agenda, with parents/caregivers at the core, and in close collaboration with pediatric clinicians for real-world promotion of ERH in the pediatric primary care setting.

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Front Pediatr

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2296-2360

Publication Date

2023

Volume

11

Start / End Page

1259022

Location

Switzerland

Related Subject Headings

  • 3213 Paediatrics
  • 1199 Other Medical and Health Sciences
  • 1114 Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine
 

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Dumitriu, D., Lavallée, A., Riggs, J. L., Frosch, C. A., Barker, T. V., Best, D. L., … Shearman, N. (2023). Advancing early relational health: a collaborative exploration of a research agenda. Front Pediatr, 11, 1259022. https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2023.1259022
Dumitriu, Dani, Andréane Lavallée, Jessica L. Riggs, Cynthia A. Frosch, Tyson V. Barker, Debra L. Best, Brenda Blasingame, et al. “Advancing early relational health: a collaborative exploration of a research agenda.Front Pediatr 11 (2023): 1259022. https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2023.1259022.
Dumitriu D, Lavallée A, Riggs JL, Frosch CA, Barker TV, Best DL, et al. Advancing early relational health: a collaborative exploration of a research agenda. Front Pediatr. 2023;11:1259022.
Dumitriu, Dani, et al. “Advancing early relational health: a collaborative exploration of a research agenda.Front Pediatr, vol. 11, 2023, p. 1259022. Pubmed, doi:10.3389/fped.2023.1259022.
Dumitriu D, Lavallée A, Riggs JL, Frosch CA, Barker TV, Best DL, Blasingame B, Bushar J, Charlot-Swilley D, Erickson E, Finkel MA, Fortune B, Gillen L, Martinez M, Ramachandran U, Sanders LM, Willis DW, Shearman N. Advancing early relational health: a collaborative exploration of a research agenda. Front Pediatr. 2023;11:1259022.

Published In

Front Pediatr

DOI

ISSN

2296-2360

Publication Date

2023

Volume

11

Start / End Page

1259022

Location

Switzerland

Related Subject Headings

  • 3213 Paediatrics
  • 1199 Other Medical and Health Sciences
  • 1114 Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine