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Practice-based intervention has sustained benefits for children and families
09-04-2007 · EurekAlert!The Healthy Steps for Young Children Program, which added behavior and development services to pediatric practices, continued to benefit families more than two years after the intervention ended. The sustained benefits from participation included greater satisfaction among parents with their child's health care, greater odds that parent's will report a child's serious behavioral issue to the pediatrician and greater odds of children reading books.
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