Table 2 Relationship between community collaboration in nutritional guidance for infants and parents, decisions on how staff responded to infants and parents needing support, and methods used to evaluate health guidance
n = 988 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Collaborating group | Non-collaborating group | |||||
no | % | no | % | |||
687 | 69.5 | 301 | 30.5 | p | ||
How staff responded to infants and parents needing support (5 items) | ||||||
Implement a pre-conference | Yes | 510 | 74.2 | 200 | 66.5 | 0.014 |
No | 177 | 25.8 | 101 | 33.6 | ||
Share medical records | Yes | 458 | 66.7 | 203 | 67.4 | 0.812 |
No | 229 | 33.3 | 98 | 32.6 | ||
Share verbal information with responsible staff | Yes | 426 | 62.0 | 181 | 60.1 | 0.577 |
No | 261 | 38.0 | 120 | 39.9 | ||
Implement a post-conference | Yes | 654 | 95.2 | 264 | 87.7 | <.0001 |
No | 33 | 4.8 | 37 | 12.3 | ||
Provide feedback to public health nurses and related organizations | Yes | 547 | 79.6 | 220 | 73.1 | 0.023 |
No | 140 | 20.4 | 81 | 26.9 | ||
Methods used to evaluate health guidance (5 items) | ||||||
Evaluate health guidance for parents | Yes | 195 | 28.4 | 57 | 18.9 | 0.002 |
No | 492 | 71.6 | 244 | 81.1 | ||
Use dental caries data in health guidance | Yes | 316 | 46.0 | 97 | 32.2 | <.0001 |
No | 371 | 54.0 | 204 | 67.8 | ||
Provide follow-up evaluations for infants before beginning elementary school | Yes | 272 | 69.6 | 74 | 24.6 | <.0001 |
No | 415 | 60.4 | 227 | 75.4 | ||
Provide follow-up evaluations for infants after beginning elementary school | Yes | 11 | 1.6 | 4 | 1.3 | 0.747 |
No | 676 | 98.4 | 297 | 98.7 | ||
Evaluate health guidance and follow-up | Yes | 206 | 30.0 | 64 | 21.3 | 0.005 |
No | 481 | 70.0 | 237 | 78.7 | ||