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

Home visiting by paraprofessionals and by nurses: a randomized, controlled trial.

OBJECTIVE To examine the effectiveness of home visiting by paraprofessionals and by nurses as separate means of improving maternal and child health when both types of visitors are trained in a program model that has demonstrated effectiveness when delivered by nurses. METHODS A randomized, controlled trial was conducted in public- and private-care settings in Denver, Colorado. One thousand on...

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

Toddler temperament, cognition and caregiver interaction predict impulsive functioning.

Participants 89 children participating in the Bloomington Longitudinal Study since infancy. Families were recruited using birth announcements when infants were 5–6 months old; 57% male; 51% first born. Assessment of risk factors Demographic and family factors, child-parent interaction, child cognition and temperament were assessed at 6, 13 and 24 months and between 3–8 years of age using home o...

Community Child Health (CCH) nurses' experience of home visits for new mothers: a quality improvement project.

This paper explores Community Child Health (CCH) nurses' experience of home visits for new mothers in a health service region of Western Australia. Reported benefits of home visits include improvement in maternal and child health and better parenting skills leading to positive maternal-child interaction. Despite CCH nurses' support for home visits factors such as costs, lack of resources and st...

A home-visiting intervention targeting determinants of infant mental health: the study protocol for the CAPEDP randomized controlled trial in France

BACKGROUND Several studies suggest that the number of risk factors rather than their nature is key to mental health disorders in childhood. METHOD AND DESIGN The objective of this multicentre randomized controlled parallel trial (PROBE methodology) is to assess the impact in a multi-risk French urban sample of a home-visiting program targeting child mental health and its major determinants. T...