Long-term Effects of Nurse Home Visitation on Children's Criminal and Antisocial Behavior

Olds, David L.; Henderson, Charles; Cole, Robert E.; Eckenrode, John; Kitzman, Harriet; Luckey, Dennis W.; Pettitt, Lisa M.; Sidora, Kimberly; Morris, Pamela; Powers, Jane

doi:10.1001/jama.280.14.1238

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“…Many county and state policy makers are beginning to realize this. They have chosen to increase or redirect social service funding to support effective, albeit expensive, prevention programs like the Nurse-Family Partnership (Olds et al, 1998; see also www.NCCFC.Org/nurseFamilyPartnership.cfm). Given the scant evidence of effectiveness for outpatient mental health services as they typically are delivered in the community (Weisz, Weiss, & Donenberg, 1992), there is clearly a need to be more strategic, meticulous, and innovative in our attempts to reduce the prevalence of conduct problems.…”

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Decoupling the Relation Between Risk Factors for Conduct Problems and the Receipt of Intervention Services: Participation Across Multiple Components of a Prevention Program

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American Journal of Community Psychology

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This study examined whether the link between risk factors for conduct problems and low rates of participation in mental health treatment could be decoupled through the provision of integrated prevention services in multiple easily-accessible contexts. It included 445 families of first-grade children (55% minority), living in four diverse communities, and selected for early signs of conduct problems. Results indicated that, under the right circumstances, these children and families could be enticed to participate at high rates in school-based services, therapeutic groups, and home visits. Because different sets of risk factors were related to different profiles of participation across the components of the prevention program, findings highlight the need to offer services in multiple contexts to reach all children and families who might benefit from them. Keywords participation; prevention; treatment; behavior problems Often, those children and families who experience the most severe problems are least likely to receive the treatment they need. This study examined whether that trend could be averted through an indicated prevention program that offered intervention services in multiple contexts within the community, including children's schools and families' homes.Serious and persistent conduct problems present an important public health issue. With a prevalence rate above 5% (Offord et al., 1987), such problems comprise the most common class of psychiatric disorders in children and account for a majority of children's referrals to mental health services (Robins, 1981). Many children with conduct problems, however, receive little or no mental health treatment in any setting (Leaf et al., 1996;Wu et al., 1999).Even when mental health treatment is available, motivating participation and warding off premature termination can be a challenge. Estimates from meta-analyses suggest that 47% of NIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript children drop out of psychological treatment (Wierzbicki & Pekarik, 1993), and 28% of parents drop out of behavior management classes (Forehand, Middlebrook, Rogers, & Steffe, 1983). Risk Factors for Conduct Problems and Low Rates of Participation in TreatmentThis problem of inducing participation is central to the success of mental health services because the same risk factors that increase the likelihood of children's conduct problems also predict low rates of participation in treatment. In fact, the children and families who stop treatment early may experience 50% more risk factors than children and families who complete treatment (Kazdin, Mazurick, & Bass, 1993). Family DemographicsMany family demographic characteristics are risk factors for children's conduct problems and for children's and families' low rates of participation in treatment. For example, low rates of maternal education and family poverty are related to high levels of child antisocial behavior (Nagin & Tremblay, 2002;McLeod & Shanahan, 1996). African American children have higher pr...

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Decoupling the Relation Between Risk Factors for Conduct Problems and the Receipt of Intervention Services: Participation Across Multiple Components of a Prevention Program

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“…These children were obviously also at high risk of CPA. The long-term follow-up of the children from the intervention group showed that they were less frequently abused and neglected, and also less likely to exhibit delinquent behaviours during adolescence (Olds et al 1986(Olds et al , 1998.…”

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Understanding development and prevention of chronic physical aggression: towards experimental epigenetic studies

Tremblay

2008

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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The aim of this paper was to highlight how developmental psychopathology, epigenetics and prevention experiments are starting to blend together to explain the developmental causes of chronic physical aggression (CPA) and, more importantly, to help prevent CPA and its associated physical, mental and social problems. After defining the keywords (prevention, chronic and physical aggression), a selected review of published studies is used to answer the following four questions: when should we attempt to prevent onset of CPA? What are the risk factors for CPA? Have early childhood interventions been shown to prevent CPA? Can early preventive interventions benefit from epigenetic studies? The last section of this paper gives two examples of experimental prevention designs that integrate present knowledge of CPA development, risk factors, early childhood preventive interventions and epigenetic programming of brain development during pregnancy and early childhood. I conclude that randomized control trials of preventive interventions during pregnancy and early childhood with a specific focus on epigenetic effects are the research design most likely to advance our understanding of the biopsychosocial mechanisms that lead to CPA, and the only research design that can identify effective interventions for preventing the development of CPA.

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“…For instance, a nurse visitation program for new mothers reduces antisocial behavior in their offspring even 15 years after the intervention. 35 This is an important contribution but there is no evidence that such public health interventions reduce morbidity and mortality of schizophrenia, mood disorders, or autism. Psychiatry will need to develop strategies for prevention for each of these disorders.…”

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Cure therapeutics and strategic prevention: raising the bar for mental health research

2005

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Mental disorders cause more disability than any other class of medical illness in Americans between ages 15 and 44 years. The suicide rate is higher than the annual mortality from homicide, AIDS, and most forms of cancer. In contrast to nearly all communicable and most non-communicable diseases, there is little evidence that the morbidity and mortality from mental disorders have changed in the past several decades. Mental health advocates, including psychiatric researchers, have pointed to stigma as one of the reasons for the lack of progress with mental illnesses relative to other medical illnesses. This review considers how the expectations and goals of the research community have contributed to this relative lack of progress. In contrast to researchers in cancer and heart disease who have sought cures and preventions, biological psychiatrists in both academia and industry have set their sights on incremental and marketable advances, such as drugs with fewer adverse effects. This essay argues for approaches that can lead to cures and strategies for prevention of schizophrenia and mood disorders.

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Long-term Effects of Nurse Home Visitation on Children's Criminal and Antisocial Behavior

Cited by 981 publications

References 33 publications

Decoupling the Relation Between Risk Factors for Conduct Problems and the Receipt of Intervention Services: Participation Across Multiple Components of a Prevention Program

Decoupling the Relation Between Risk Factors for Conduct Problems and the Receipt of Intervention Services: Participation Across Multiple Components of a Prevention Program

Understanding development and prevention of chronic physical aggression: towards experimental epigenetic studies

Cure therapeutics and strategic prevention: raising the bar for mental health research

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