title: Impact of a Neighborhood-Based Curriculum on the Helpfulness of Pediatric Residents' Anticipatory Guidance to Impoverished Families.
abstract: Introduction Neighborhood location has been shown to impact childhood health and well-being. It follows that neighborhood context-the risks and assets present within a patient's neighborhood-may be an important consideration during provision of primary care. Pediatric residents often serve as the primary care physicians for high risk populations though are often unfamiliar with local neighborhoods. As such, education interventions that deepen residents' understanding of a patient's neighborhood context may allow for targeted care provision. A neighborhood-based curriculum was therefore created to improve residents' familiarity with local neighborhoods. Methods The neighborhood-based curriculum utilized a shared interactive presentation to address the topics of housing, nutrition, safe play, pharmacies, and transportation. Education modules included introduction to readily available on-line resources. A pre-post survey assessed resident self-perceived competence on the curricular topics of interest. Caregivers were interviewed in the post-curriculum period to rate the helpfulness of resident-administered advice. Results Following the curriculum, residents reported improved competence on the topics of safe play and transportation (p < 0.05). When addressed in the clinical setting, the large majority of families felt that residents' advice on curricular topics was helpful; however, individual curricular topics were not consistently addressed during clinical encounters. Discussion A neighborhood-based education curriculum can be effective in teaching pediatric residents about the social determinants of health and local neighborhood resources. As research increasingly demonstrates the impact of neighborhood on health, we expect further educational focus on neighborhood as a means from which to educate residents who often care for an impoverished population.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA. francis.real@cchmc.org.
authors.forename: Francis J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Real
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA.
authors.forename: Andrew F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA.
authors.forename: Jeanne R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Spaulding
authors.affiliation: Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA.
authors.forename: Heidi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sucharew
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA.
authors.forename: Melissa D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Klein
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000193:education*; D010820:Physicians; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011634:Public Health; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Community health; Medical education; Neighborhood; Pediatric; Primary care