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Almost 6 million U.S. children are uninsured, even though most are eligible for coverage through Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Minority children are at special risk for lacking insurance, but the best way to get and keep them enrolled has not been determined.
To test whether the use of parent mentors would improve the rate of health insurance coverage for minority children, investigators conducted a randomized controlled trial (Kids' HELP) in which 237 evaluable low-income, uninsured minority children and their parents were randomized to receive health insurance support from a specially trained parent mentor or through a traditional state-sponsored Medicaid outreach program (controls). Parent mentors, who had at…