Pediatric Caregiver Interventions: A Scoping Review

Caregivers are an integral component in pediatric healthcare service delivery. Caregiver education/interventions and health beliefs vary greatly, as do barriers and facilitators, including their accessibility, quality, and effectiveness. A family-centered care approach, defined as utilizing the family as a formal member, resource, and collaborator in the care team, has been found to be beneficial and contribute to positive health and wellbeing outcomes for caregivers, their child, and the family unit as a whole. A scoping review was conducted to investigate the utilization and impacts of caregiver education/interventions on their engagement in the therapeutic process. The results of this review will be used to develop and implement a caregiver resource program at an outpatient pediatric occupational therapy clinic with the aim of measuring outcomes such as caregiver engagement, competency, self-efficacy, and health literacy.