Financial Coaching For Parents In Clinic Leads To Higher Attendance At Well-Child Health Care Visits For Their Young Children

Implementing financial coaching for parents of infants in a pediatric primary care setting reduced missed well-child care visit rates by 50% and made them 26% more likely to have fewer vaccinations overall by the end of a six-month visit period. The likelihood of attending each preventive care visit between one and eight months of age was more than 20% higher for parents receiving financial coaching relative to the control group. Children in financial coaching families had a higher overall rate of completion of all vaccines for any given visit and a greater average number of vaccines (0.8 . . .