Effects of Nurse Home-Visiting on Maternal Life Course and Child Development: Age 6 Follow-Up Results of a Randomized Trial

To test, with an urban, primarily black sample, the effects of prenatal and infancy home visits by nurses on mothers' fertility and economic self-sufficiency and the academic and behavioral adjustment of their children as the children finished kindergarten, near their sixth birthday. We conduct...

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Published in:Pediatrics (Evanston) 2004-12, Vol.114 (6), p.1550-1559
Main Authors: Olds, David L, Kitzman, Harriet, Cole, Robert, Robinson, JoAnn, Sidora, Kimberly, Luckey, Dennis W, Henderson, Charles R., Jr, Hanks, Carole, Bondy, Jessica, Holmberg, John
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
African Continental Ancestry Group
Biological and medical sciences
Birth Intervals
Care and treatment
Child
Child Development
Female
Follow-Up Studies
General aspects
Home Care Services
Humans
Infants
Interpersonal Relations
Maternal Health Services
Medical sciences
Mothers
Nurses
Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
Pediatricians
Pediatrics
Practice
Pregnancy
Pregnancy - statistics & numerical data
Proportional Hazards Models
Single Parent
Urban Population
Visiting nurses
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Summary:To test, with an urban, primarily black sample, the effects of prenatal and infancy home visits by nurses on mothers' fertility and economic self-sufficiency and the academic and behavioral adjustment of their children as the children finished kindergarten, near their sixth birthday. We conducted a randomized, controlled trial of a program of prenatal and infancy home-visiting in a public system of obstetric and pediatric care in Memphis, Tennessee. A total of 743 primarily black women at or =2 sociodemographic risk characteristics (unmarried,
ISSN:0031-4005
1098-4275
DOI:10.1542/peds.2004-0962