Health visiting: Action research in a controlled environment

Barker, Walter

doi:10.1016/0020-7489(92)90028-f

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“…There are also examples in the literature of research evaluating services, thus providing useful information to those who might wish to extend or modify services in specific ways. Examples include Archer and Kellaghan's (1975) evaluation of an intervention programme for disadvantaged children; Barker's (1992) research on the effectiveness of the health visitor programme and Fitzpatrick, et al's (1997) research on the extension of the 'Community Mothers' programme to the travelling community. The literature contains countless further examples of research with potential applications' to children's lives at home and in school.…”

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Twenty-five years of developmental and child psychology in Ireland: An analysis of PsycLit and ERIC data bases

Hennessy

Hogan

2000

The Irish Journal of Psychology

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Twenty-five years of developmental and child psychology in Ireland: An analysis of PsycLit and ERIC data bases

Hennessy

Hogan

2000

The Irish Journal of Psychology

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“…To achieve substantial improvements in parenting, professional involvement is likely to be required. For example, health visitors have been successful in intervening during home visits, using a structured approach (Barker, 1992;Barker and Anderson, 1988). Nevertheless, some studies have found that there was no difference in outcomes between well trained lay home visitors and professionals (Lyons-Ruth and others, 1990).…”

Section: Who Is Best Able To Help Families With Infants?mentioning

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Interventions addressing infant mental health problems

Barnes

2003

Children & Society

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“…Since the 1980s, several attempts have been made to evolve different paradigms of enquiry more suited to investigating the social world ( Morgan & Smirich 1980, Bryman 1984, Duffy 1985, Beattie 1991, Barker 1992) As part of the wider North American critique of ‘scientific’ paradigms, Halpern has developed an evaluation framework on the basis on an examination of home‐visiting programmes to parents and children ( Halpern 1984). Halpern’s framework is described in some detail below in order to illustrate the importance of models in shaping the goals of home visiting, and as a basis for building upon current evaluation frameworks for assessing the outcomes of health visiting.…”

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Evidence‐based practice and health visiting: the need for theoretical underpinnings for evaluation

Elkan

Blair

Robinson

2000

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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In this paper we argue that evidence-based practice, which is being introduced throughout the British National Health Service to make decisions about the allocation of limited resources, provides a welcome opportunity for health visitors to demonstrate their efficacy, skills and professionalism. However, the paper argues that to view health visiting as evidence-based is not to reduce health visiting merely to a technology through which scientific solutions are applied to social problems. Rather, health visiting needs to be viewed as a political movement, based on a particular model of society, which shapes the goals which health visitors pursue and influences the strategies they adopt to achieve their goals. The paper describes various models of health visiting as a way of showing how the goals of health visiting are always framed within a particular set of assumptions and causal explanations. The paper then turns to look at the issue of evaluating health visiting services. It is argued that evaluation should properly take account of the models which shape health visitors' goals and intervention strategies, and in turn, health visitors need to be explicit about the theoretical frameworks underpinning their interventions. Finally, it is argued that health visitors' knowledge and understanding of a range of models of society enables them to move between the various models to choose the most appropriate and effective means of intervention. Hence it is concluded that the emphasis on evidence-based practice provides health visitors with a valuable opportunity to show that their unique, professional skills and understanding are the preconditions for effective intervention.

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Health visiting: Action research in a controlled environment

Cited by 12 publications

References 9 publications

Twenty-five years of developmental and child psychology in Ireland: An analysis of PsycLit and ERIC data bases

Twenty-five years of developmental and child psychology in Ireland: An analysis of PsycLit and ERIC data bases

Interventions addressing infant mental health problems

Evidence‐based practice and health visiting: the need for theoretical underpinnings for evaluation

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