INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO DETERMINE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE INTERVENTION* Early Childhood Home Visitation to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence 397 Early Childhood Home Visitation to Prevent Violence

he Effectiveness of Early Childhood Home isitation in Preventing Violence

n early childhood home visitation programs, parents and children are visited at home during the child’s first 2 years of life by trained personnel who rovide some combination of information, support, or raining about child health, development, and care. ome visitation has been used to meet a wide range of bjectives, including improvement of the home envionment, family development, and the preve...

Engaging and retaining abused women in perinatal home visitation programs.

OBJECTIVES Intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy affects 0.9% to 17% of women and affects maternal health significantly. The impact of IPV extends to the health of children, including an increased risk of complications during pregnancy and the neonatal period, mental health problems, and cognitive delays. Despite substantial sequelae, there is limited research substantiating best pra...

Recommendations to reduce violence through early childhood home visitation, therapeutic foster care, and firearms laws.

Preventing child abuse and neglect with a program of nurse home visitation: the limiting effects of domestic violence.

CONTEXT Home visitation to families with young children has been promoted as an effective way to prevent child maltreatment, but few studies have examined the conditions under which such programs meet this goal. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the presence of domestic violence limits the effects of nurse home visitation interventions in reducing substantiated reports of child abuse and negle...

Erratum to: Development of a nurse home visitation intervention for intimate partner violence

BACKGROUND Despite an increase in knowledge about the epidemiology of intimate partner violence (IPV), much less is known about interventions to reduce IPV and its associated impairment. One program that holds promise in preventing IPV and improving outcomes for women exposed to violence is the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP), an evidence-based nurse home visitation program for socially disadvan...