Skovgaard, Anne Mette http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8793-8303
Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian
Pontoppidan, Maiken
Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Tine
Madsen, Katrine Rich
Voss, Ida
Wehner, Stine Kjær
Pedersen, Trine Pagh
Finseth, Lotte
Taylor, Rodney S.
Tolstrup, Janne Schurmann
Ammitzbøll, Janni
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Novo Nordisk Foundation (20SH0063466)
The Independent Research Fund Denmark (9130-00071B)
Article History
Received: 27 December 2021
Accepted: 7 January 2022
First Online: 28 January 2022
Change Date: 21 February 2022
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:
Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12677-0
Declarations
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: The study is approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the University of Southern Denmark, case nr. 20/61404.
: The CHNs inform parents about the collaboration between the municipality and the National Institute of Public Health, according to which it is possible to contact families via information from the health services. Parents are informed by written information attached the electronic invitation (e-Boks) or a postal letter (to parents who do not use e-Boks) with a personal log-in to the electronic questionnaires, and they give their informed consent to participate to the project group via the survey database, when they have completed the electronic questionnaires. They parents are informed that their participation is fully voluntary, and that families who do not wish to participate, receive current practice or care as usual. It is underscored that at any stage of the project, the parents can withdraw their participation, and then receive current practice. Notably, the study concerns a specified intervention as an add-on to existing services provided by CHNs in the study municipalities [CitationRef removed]. If the CHNs observe potentially adverse effects of the VIPP-PUF intervention, this will be recorded to the study team, and in accordance with the current practices and the PUF-program, the CHNs switch on the care as usual. Importantly, in the existing routines and the current practice of CHNs, about 20% of families receive extended childcare in accordance with the social legislation. More than 90% of the families use the services offered by the CHNs, which include counselling and information on sensitive issues related to challenges of the health and well-being of the child, e.g., mental health and overweight. In this study, the CHNs use a more standardized and specified method to address the needs of the most vulnerable infants and their families, of which the majority already have close contact with the CHNs as a part of the existing routines. Also, video feedback, which is a core ingredient of the VIPP-PUF intervention, is already frequently used among Danish CHNs as a way of communicating infants’ needs to the parents, and previous experiences show that the video feedback approach is well accepted among parents and regarded as a helpful supplement for the parents to understand the CHNs’ guidance (87).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.