Effects of Nurse Home Visiting on Maternal and Child Functioning: Age-9 Follow-up of a Randomized Trial

Our goal was to test the effect of prenatal and infancy home visits by nurses on mothers' fertility and children's functioning 7 years after the program ended at child age 2. We conducted a randomized, controlled trial in a public system of obstetric and pediatric care. A total of 743 prim...

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Published in:Pediatrics (Evanston) 2007-10, Vol.120 (4), p.e832-e845
Main Authors: Olds, David L, Kitzman, Harriet, Hanks, Carole, Cole, Robert, Anson, Elizabeth, Sidora-Arcoleo, Kimberly, Luckey, Dennis W, Henderson, Charles R., Jr, Holmberg, John, Tutt, Robin A, Stevenson, Amanda J, Bondy, Jessica
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Birth Intervals
Birth Weight
Child
Child development
Child Mortality
Child, Preschool
Children & youth
Educational Status
Effects
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Home Care Services
Humans
Infant
Infant Mortality
Infant, Newborn
Interpersonal Relations
Interviews as Topic
Nurses
Obstetrics
Pediatrics
Program Evaluation
Public Assistance - statistics & numerical data
Social Welfare - statistics & numerical data
Substance-Related Disorders - epidemiology
Tennessee - epidemiology
Time Factors
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Summary:Our goal was to test the effect of prenatal and infancy home visits by nurses on mothers' fertility and children's functioning 7 years after the program ended at child age 2. We conducted a randomized, controlled trial in a public system of obstetric and pediatric care. A total of 743 primarily black women
ISSN:0031-4005
1098-4275
DOI:10.1542/peds.2006-2111