SynthesisAcademic pediatrics
Community Health Workers in Schools: A Systematic Review.
Synthesis in Academic pediatrics. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Community Health Workers in School Systems: Social Prescribing for Healthcare Access and Resource Allocation.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Factors associated with access channels and satisfaction with health science popularization among health lifestyle instructors.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Core Elements of the Stunting Prevention Model to Improve Adolescents' Quality of Life.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2026Article
- Optimizing community health workers and nonbiomedical approaches to assess the burden of soil-transmitted helminthiasis in a school-aged population in rural Rwanda.BMC primary care · 2025Article
- Seeking Optimal, Integrated Pediatric Medical and Social Care: A Qualitative, Peer Researcher-Driven Study.Academic pediatrics · 2025Article
- Community Mental Health Workers: Their Workplaces, Roles, and Impact.Community mental health journal · 2024Review
- Evaluating the implementation of a community health worker-delivered intervention integrating asthma care in West Philadelphia public schools.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2024Article
- Community health workers' perspectives on integrating into school settings to support student health.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundCommunity health workers (CHWs) are trusted community members who provide health education and care. However, no consensus exists regarding whether community health worker-based interventions are effective within the school setting.
objectiveTo determine outcomes and best practices of school-based community health worker interventions. DATA SOURCES: PubMed, CINAHL, and SCOPUS databases. STUDY ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: This systematic literature review examined articles that described an intervention led by community health workers, targeted children and/or parents, and took place primarily within a Kindergarten-12
participantsCommunity health workers, children, and/or their parents
interventionsSchool-based community health worker programs
resultsOf 1875 articles identified, 13 met inclusion criteria and were included in the final analysis. Of these, 5 described a statistically significant primary outcome. Seven articles provided details regarding community health worker recruitment, training, and roles that would enable reproduction of the intervention. LIMITATIONS: This review focused on interventions in the United States. Bias of individual studies had a wide range of scores (9-21). Heterogeneity of studies also precluded a meta-analysis of primary outcomes. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS OF KEY
findingsThe utilization of Community health workers in school-based interventions for children and/or parents is promising. This review identified a lack of detail and uniformity in program presentation, specifically with Community health worker recruitment, training, and roles. A standardized reporting mechanism for Community health worker interventions in schools would better allow for reproducibility and scalability of existing studies.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.