Connecting Families: Poverty Screening and Financial Support Navigation for Families of Young Children in Primary Care: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To determine the feasibility of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluating the impact of community support worker (CSW) supported, structured review of financial supports and social system navigation. METHODS: A pilot RCT of parent-child dyads (1 parent and child aged 2-5 years old) endorsing the question "Do you ever have difficulty making ends meet at the end of the month?" was conducted in primary care in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Interventions included CSW-supported social system navigation or control; both groups received a written summary of available resources. The primary outcome was feasibility, including recruitment, completion, and retention rates and intervention adherence and fidelity. Secondary outcomes were child social, emotional, and behavioral health (Strengths and Difficulties Scale [SDQ]) and parenting stress (Parenting Stress Index-IV [PSI]). RESULTS: Of 74 eligible dyads, 37 (50%) were enrolled, mean (standard deviation [SD]) child age 35.4 (11.1) months and 57% were female. Outcomes were assessed on 29 participants (78%) at 6 months and 22 participants (60%) at 12 months. Participants randomized to the intervention arm met with the CSW a mean of 1.71 (SD 1.68) times, with a range of 0 to 5 meetings, including 35.7% who did not attend any meetings with the CSW. Using analysis of covariance, the mean between-group difference in the baseline adjusted SDQ Total Difficulties Score at 6 months was -1.21 (95% confidence interval [CI] -3.82, 1.40) and at 12 months was 1.10 (95% CI -3.13, 5.34), and in the baseline adjusted PSI Total Score at 6 months was -12.88 (95% CI -21.63, -4.12) and at 12 months was 7.79 (95% CI -4.42, 20.00). CONCLUSIONS: Conducting a trial enrolling families of young children experiencing financial strain is feasible. A definitive trial with modifications is warranted and is underway. CLINICAL TRIALS REGISTRATION: clinicaltrials.gov NCT05667675.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.016 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".