Well Child Care 1-4 years old

1. Well Child Care 1-4 years old Med Peds Rounds September 8, 2010 Debra Lotstein, MD, MPH

2. What is Ideal Well Child Care? • A transformational shift from acute to preventive care • Incorporates a lifespan perspective in health care • An opportunity for engagement with other health producing sectors of society • Education • Social services

3. Outcomes of WCC at Age 5: Physical Health and Development • No undetected hearing or vision problems • No undetected birth defects/congenital anomalies • No chronic health problems with a management plan • Immunizations complete for age • No undetected lead poisoning • Good nutritional habits and no obesity

4. Outcomes of WCC at age 5:Development • No unrecognized or untreated delays • Emotional, social, cognitive, communication • Ready for school • Child recognizes relationship between letters and sounds • Child has positive social behaviors with peers and adults

5. Outcomes of WCC at age 5:Family Capacity • Parents are knowledgeable about child’s physical health and needs • No unrecognized maternal depression, violence, substance abuse • No undetected early warning signs of child abuse and neglect • Parents feel valued and supported in role • Parents understand and are able to fully use well child care services

6. A Systematic Approach to Well Child Care • Diet • Elimination • Sleep • Development • Home • School • Safety • Vaccines • Anticipatory Guidance

7. Guidelines for WCC 1-4 yo • The first priority is to attend to the parents’ concerns • Be sure to cover each area but avoid having a “spiel” for everything • Use clinical practice tools to help you • Preventive Services Prompting Sheet • Standardized screening tools • Vaccine registry/charts • Reach out and Read • Community Resource Guide

8. 1. Preventive Services Prompting Sheet: Based on CHDP periodicity, AAP guidelines • 12 months • 15 months • 18 months • 2 years • 3 years • 4 years

9. 2. Standardized Screening Tools • Surveillance: • general process of identifying children at risk for developmental problems • Screening: • use of standard tools for identifying those at risk • Evaluation: • complex process to identify specific disorders

10. Routine Use of Structured Developmental Screening Tools • Used if concerns arise AND periodically at well visits (9 (or 12),18,30 month visit per AAP) • Easy to use tools with good sensitivity (75%) and specificity (at least 75%) for problems needing referrals • PEDS • Ages and Stages Questionnaires • MCHAT for autism (at 18 and 24 mos) • Promotes conversations and parent engagement in their child’s development

11. 2. Standardized Screening Tools • Development • PEDS/ASQ • Family Stressors • Domestic Violence • Maternal Depression • Lifestyle Log for Overweight/Obese • After 2 years old

12. 3. Vaccine Registry and Charts • Catch up missed vaccines • Live vaccines • Boosters

14. 4. Reach out and Read • National program started in Boston • Using books as a way to • Promote child’s readiness for reading • Promote social/emotional development • Use as a tool in the exam room to assess development, parenting skills, can use to model how to share books • Assure there are books in the home

15. 5. Community Resource Guide • Special Needs • Child care and early education • Mental Health • Other

16. Approach to the Physical Exam 1-4 yo • Approach the child indirectly • Keep child with parent as much as possible • Use parent as example • Use distraction

17. A Systematic Approach to Well Child Care: Routines/ Concerns to Discuss • Diet • Elimination • Sleep • Development • Home • School • Safety • Vaccines • Anticipatory Guidance

18. Diet: Feeding • Child should be in control of eating • Avoid forcing/struggles about food • Give up on a well rounded “adult- like” diet until 3 years old • Diet 1 through 3 years old: • Approx 16 oz whole milk a day (end meal with milk) • 3-4 oz protein • Iron rich foods • Fruits • Variety of cooked vegetables/leafy greens • Need to offer multiple times

19. Diet: Obesity Prevention • Plot height and weight on growth curve • Plot BMI on curve from 2 years old on • Assess diet and activity • See lifestyle log for those overwt (85-95) or obese (>95%) • 5-4-3-2-1 • 5 servings fruits and vegetables per day • 4 glasses of water • 3 servings dairy products • 2 or hours or less screen time per day • 1 hour or more of exercise per day

20. Elimination: Toilet Training • Developmentally need to: • Feel urine or BM coming, hold onto it, walk to toilet, sit down, produce, and let them be flushed away • Avoid struggles over toileting • Likely to be more ready at end of second year (just before turning 2)

21. Sleep • Bedtime routines/rituals are key • Rocking chair, bedtime story, transitional object • Goal is to teach self-soothing • More night time awakenings can be expected with learning to walk • 2 naps a day decrease to 1 nap round 15 months

22. Development • “Touchpoints” theory (Brazelton) • With each developmental growth spurt comes with predictable struggles and also regressions • Helping parents understand and anticipate these normal progressions helps prevent family conflict and promote positive development of the child

23. Development • Motor milestone of walking (12-14 mos) is accompanied by emotional development of urge for independence • In the second year new independence at 1 yo comes ambivalence and fears • “Do I want to walk away, or don’t I?” • This “inner turmoil” underlies outer “negativism” and temper tantrums, peak 2nd and 3rd years of life

24. Discipline • Its about teaching, not punishing • Setting limits so that eventually the child can learn self-control and respect for others • Save discipline efforts for the important things (e.g. safety of self or others) • Pick your battles

25. Discipline • First control the environment • Avoid the avoidable • “Acting out” is often worst at predictable times: end of day (when tired), when parent is distracted, or if child over-excited (public place) • Use quiet “time out” or hug to break the cycle of buildup • when quiet, can explain “I’ll have to stop you until you learn to stop yourself”

26. Development: Language

27. Language Delay • A wide range of normal speech and language development between 1-3 yo • Consider referral if: • No first words by 15 months • No consistent words by 18 months • No word combinations by 24 months • Speech is difficult for parents to understand at 24 months • Speech is difficult for strangers to understand at 36 months • Some will be familial late talkers: increase in males, family history • Where to refer: • < 3yo Regional Center (speech rx, other stimulation) • >3yo: School

28. Home • Who lives at home with you? Any changes? • School • Who is with child during the day? Day care? Thinking of daycare or preschool? • Safety • Car Seats • 0-1 :rear –facing until 1 year AND 20 lbs • 1-4: Car seat until 4 yo AND 40 lbs • 4-6 : Booster seat until 6 yo AND 60 lbs (or 8 and 80)

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