Home visits by paraprofessionals improved maternal mental health and mother-child interaction 2 years after visits ended

Home visits by paraprofessionals improved maternal mental health and mother-child interaction 2 years after visits ended.

Olds DL, Robinson J, Pettitt L, et al. Effects of home visits by paraprofessionals and by nurses: age 4 follow-up results of a randomized trial. Pediatrics 2004;114:1560–8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Home visits by paraprofessionals did not improve maternal and child health.

Nurse home visits during pregnancy and early childhood improved maternal life course 7 years later.

ED FROM Olds DL, Kitzman H, Hanks C, et al. Effects of nurse home visiting on maternal and child functioning: age-9 follow-up of a randomized trial. Pediatrics 2007;120:e832–45. Correspondence to: Dr D L Olds, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO, USA; [email protected] Sources of funding: National Institute of Mental Health; National Institute of Child He...

Maternal perceptions of help from home visits by nurse-community health worker teams.

We used data from a home visiting trial to examine low-income women's perceptions of services received from nurses (the community care [CC] group) and from a nurse-community health worker (CHW) team. More mothers in the nurse-CHW group than in the CC group reported receiving help in all of the categories assessed. For both groups, assistance with health education ranked highest among the types ...

Maternal mental illness and mother-child relations

The notion that parenting is a skill has led to detailed analyses of parenting strategies that differentiate between competent and ineffective parents. They have confirmed that the outcomes of parenting interchanges are understandable in terms of opérantconditioning on both parent and child. Inadvertent conditioning accounts for around half the variance for significant child misbehaviour (Patt...