Each additional hour per month of EI service was associated with a 3-point functional gain on Child Outcomes Summary scores¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2019 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? An additional hour per month of all EI services was associated with a 3-point gain in functional outcomes scores (b, 3.0; 95% CI, 1.5-5.9) among children with complete outcomes information (n = 448), consistent across all 3 subscales and described as a clinically meaningful 0.6 SD gain. → McManus BM 2019

Evidence¶

McManus BM 2019¶

McManus BM, Richardson Z, Schenkman M, Murphy N, Morrato EH. (2019). Timing and Intensity of Early Intervention Service Use and Outcomes Among a Safety-Net Population of Children. JAMA Network Open. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.7529

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Adjusted linear regression estimating the association between change in COS subscale scores and service intensity among the 448 children with complete functional outcomes data. The article reports b, 3.0 (95% CI, 1.5-5.9), described as a clinically meaningful 0.6 SD gain.

"An additional hour per month of all EI services was associated with a 3-point gain in functional outcomes scores (b, 3.0; 95% CI, 1.5-5.9) among children with complete outcomes information (nŌĆē=ŌĆē448) and this was consistent across all 3 subscales, a clinically meaningful (ie, 0.6 SD) gain."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Discipline-specific intensity associations: developmental intervention with social-emotional gains and speech therapy with adaptive function gains — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• EI service intensity was low in the safety-net cohort, with a median of 2.7 hours per month across all services — related