Journal article
Study protocol for the Healthier Wealthier Families (HWF) pilot randomised controlled trial: testing the feasibility of delivering financial counselling to families with young children who are identified as experiencing financial hardship by community-based nurses.
Anna MH Price, Anna Zhu, Huu NJ Nguyen, Diana Contreras-Suárez, Natalie Schreurs, Jade Burley, Kenny D Lawson, Margaret Kelaher, Raghu Lingam, Rebekah Grace, Shanti Raman, Lynn Kemp, Susan Woolfenden, Sharon Goldfeld
BMJ Open | BMJ Journals | Published : 2021
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Poverty and deprivation can harm children's future health, learning, economic productivity and societal participation. The Australian Healthier Wealthier Families project seeks to reduce the childhood inequities caused by poverty and deprivation by creating a systematic referral pathway between two free, community-based services: universal, well-child nursing services, which provide health and development support to families with children from birth to school entry, and financial counselling. By adapting the successful Scottish 'Healthier Wealthier Children' model, the objectives of this Australian pilot are to test the (1) feasibility of systematising the referral pathway, and..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The Victorian site is supported by the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust Impact Grant #9523 and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI). MCRI administered the research grant for the Victorian pilot site and provided infrastructural support (as study sponsor) to its staff but played no role in the conduct or analysis of the trial. Research at the MCRI is supported by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Programme. The New South Wales (NSW) site is supported by The Corella Fund, a Health@Business and University of NSW (UNSW) Medicine Collaboration Seed Funds Grant, the Population Child Health Group at the UNSW, and the BestSTART--SW at the Ingham Institute. The Population Child Health Group at the UNSW and the BestSTART--SW at the Ingham provided the research associate (author JB) and infrastructural support (as study sponsor) to its staff. Author SW was supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Career Development Fellowship (#1158954). Author SG was supported by an NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship (#1155290).