Presenter
Venisa Rodriguez, BS OT/S
Document Type
Poster
Publication Date
2026
Abstract
Caregivers are an integral component in pediatric healthcare service delivery. Caregiver education/interventions and health beliefs vary greatly, as do barriers and facilitators, including their accessibility, quality, and effectiveness. A family-centered care approach, defined as utilizing the family as a formal member, resource, and collaborator in the care team, has been found to be beneficial and contributing to positive health and wellbeing outcomes for caregivers, their child, and the family. Upon completion of a scoping review and needs assessment of the site, an 8 week caregiver resource program was developed and implemented for the caregivers of children receiving OT services at a private, pediatric outpatient clinic in California. The resource program consisted of 8 weeks (8 hours in total) of direct educational programming on topics including, but not limited to, therapeutic terminology, developmental milestones, sensory processing and integration, emotional regulation, and home recommendations. A pretest-posttest, mixed methods design was followed to measure caregiver outcomes such as confidence, stress and self-care, family cohesion, and health literacy.
Faculty Mentor
Tania Rosa, O.T.D., OTR/L
Academic Discipline
College of Health & Wellness
Repository Citation
Rodriguez, Venisa BS, OTS, "Impacts of Intervention on Pediatric Caregivers" (2026). Student Research Design & Innovation Symposium. 331.
https://scholarsarchive.jwu.edu/innov_symposium/331
