Randomized Trial of the Early Start Program of Home Visitation: Parent and Family Outcomes

Fergusson, David M.; Grant, Hildegard; Horwood, L. John; Ridder, Elizabeth M.

doi:10.1542/peds.2005-1517

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“…13,24 Early Start demonstrated favorable effects on 3 outcomes, including percentage who received well-child visits and dental service. [25][26][27] HFA had favorable results for 4 health care outcomes, such as the number of well-child visits and whether the child had health insurance. [28][29][30][31] HFA had an unfavorable effect on the number of pediatric emergency department (ED) visits.…”

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Effectiveness of Home Visiting in Improving Child Health and Reducing Child Maltreatment

2013

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act established the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, which provides $1.5 billion to states over 5 years for home visiting program models serving at-risk pregnant women and children from birth to age 5. The act stipulates that 75% of the funds must be used for programs with evidence of effectiveness based on rigorous evaluation research. Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness reviewed the home visiting research literature and provided an assessment of the evidence of effectiveness for program models that serve families with pregnant women and children from birth to age 5. METHODS: Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness included a systematic search and screening process, a review of the research quality, and an assessment of program effectiveness. Reviewers rated studies’ capacity to provide unbiased estimates of program impacts and determined whether a program met the Department of Health and Human Services’ criteria for an evidence-based model. RESULTS: As of July 2012, 32 models were reviewed, of which 12 met the Department of Health and Human Services criteria. Most of these models were shown to have favorable effects on child development. Other common favorable effects included health care usage and reductions in child maltreatment. Less common were favorable effects on birth outcomes. CONCLUSIONS: Home visiting is a promising way to serve families who may be difficult to engage in supportive services. Existing rigorous research indicates that home visiting has the potential for positive results among high-risk families, particularly on health care usage and child development.

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Effectiveness of Home Visiting in Improving Child Health and Reducing Child Maltreatment

2013

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“…12 In New Zealand, Scotland, and other countries, recent development of home-visiting efforts have replicated American models, thus indicating that the promise seen in this country with home visiting is envisioned beyond our shores. 13 " [Home-visiting] programs that succeed in helping the children and families who live in the shadows are intensive and comprehensive, flexible, and staffed by professionals with the time and skills to establish solid relationships with their clients. Intensive medical care for fragile newborn or aged patients who are barely clinging to life, costly though it may be, encounters no general resistance.…”

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The Role of Preschool Home-Visiting Programs in Improving Children's Developmental and Health Outcomes

Granado-Villar¹,

Boulter²,

Brown³

et al. 2009

Pediatrics

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Child health and developmental outcomes depend to a large extent on the capabilities of families to provide a nurturing, safe environment for their infants and young children. Unfortunately, many families have insufficient knowledge about parenting skills and an inadequate support system of friends, extended family, or professionals to help with or advise them regarding child rearing. Home-visiting programs offer a mechanism for ensuring that at-risk families have social support, linkage with public and private community services, and ongoing health, developmental, and safety education. When these services are part of a system of high-quality well-child care linked or integrated with the pediatric medical home, they have the potential to mitigate health and developmental outcome disparities. This statement reviews the history of home visiting in the United States and reaffirms the support of the American Academy of Pediatrics for home-based parenting education and support.

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“…The seven best performing programmes were (in order of cost-effectiveness): the Child and Youth Program conducted in Baltimore with low income women involving lay visits (with professional support) until age 2 (program 19),15 an Australian home visiting programme for high risk young teenage mothers aged less than 18 years (program 13),16 the Special Families Care Project Minnesota, an intensive early intervention programme for mothers at high risk of abusing their infants (program 1),17 18 the Nurse Home Visiting Program in Denver Colorado that used nurse visitors (program 16a),19 20 the New Zealand Early Start programme for low income, welfare dependent women using nurses or social workers (program 14)21 22 and the Olds Nurse Family Partnership programme conducted in Elmira, New York involving nurses visiting prenatally and until age 2 years (programs 24a, 24b) 23–30…”

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Home visiting programmes for the prevention of child maltreatment: cost-effectiveness of 33 programmes

Dalziel

Segal

2012

Arch Dis Child

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Randomized Trial of the Early Start Program of Home Visitation: Parent and Family Outcomes

Cited by 53 publications

References 8 publications

Effectiveness of Home Visiting in Improving Child Health and Reducing Child Maltreatment

Effectiveness of Home Visiting in Improving Child Health and Reducing Child Maltreatment

The Role of Preschool Home-Visiting Programs in Improving Children's Developmental and Health Outcomes

Home visiting programmes for the prevention of child maltreatment: cost-effectiveness of 33 programmes

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