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Effectiveness of Adaptive Care Plans for Children with Developmental Disabilities During Outpatient Clinic Appointments

Liddle, Melissa Rae
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1564751331604259

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2020, Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.), Xavier University, Psychology.
Children with developmental disabilities have a greater number of medical diagnoses and consequently require more medical experiences than typically-developing children (Schieve et al., 2012). Healthcare providers and parents report that children with developmental disabilities exhibit problematic behaviors and struggle to cooperate with healthcare encounters (Bultas, McMillin, & Zand, 2016). Adaptive care plans are individualized patient-centered plans created to minimize the harmful effects of hospital experiences, and address the challenges that children with developmental disabilities experience during healthcare encounters (Liddle, Birkett, Bonjour, & Risma, 2018). The current study evaluated if adaptive care plans can positively affect the psychosocial outcomes among children with developmental disabilities, and greater parent and medical personnel satisfaction with the healthcare visit, compared to children with developmental disabilities who do not have adaptive care plans. One-hundred and sixty children between 3 and 18 years of age with developmental disabilities and their parents (child’s Mage = 8.10, SD = 3.75) were enrolled from outpatient clinics at a pediatric medical center. Results revealed that children with adaptive care plans did not experience less psychosocial distress, and parents as well as medical staff did not perceive adaptive care plans to improve the effectiveness of healthcare encounters. Future research is needed to understand if adaptive care plans reduce psychosocial distress during and after medical procedures, and if children who have specific types of developmental disabilities experience benefit from these plans.
Tammy Sonnentag, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
W. Michael Nelson, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Jennifer Gibson, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
78 p.
Medicine; Psychology
adaptive care plan; patient-centered care; developmental disability; child life specialist

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  • Liddle, M. R. (2020). Effectiveness of Adaptive Care Plans for Children with Developmental Disabilities During Outpatient Clinic Appointments [Doctoral dissertation, Xavier University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1564751331604259

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Liddle, Melissa. Effectiveness of Adaptive Care Plans for Children with Developmental Disabilities During Outpatient Clinic Appointments. 2020. Xavier University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1564751331604259.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Liddle, Melissa. "Effectiveness of Adaptive Care Plans for Children with Developmental Disabilities During Outpatient Clinic Appointments." Doctoral dissertation, Xavier University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1564751331604259

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