What works for home visiting programs: Lessons from experimental evaluation of programs and interventions

Kahn, Jordan; Moore, Kristin A.

doi:10.1037/e596742010-001

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“…There are several potential explanations for this finding (see Easterbrooks et al, 2012 for a comprehensive examination of the impacts of Healthy Families Massachusetts on child maltreatment). The results from the present study are in keeping with literature that shows "mixed" effects of home visiting programs on maltreatment (Kahn & Moore, 2010) and, in some cases, a higher rate of neglect in the program group compared to the control group, perhaps due to close contact with mandated reporters (e.g., home visitors) Green et al, 2013). Moreover, mothers who had received mental health services since becoming pregnant were at higher risk for neglect.…”

Section: Individual Predictors Of Infant Neglectsupporting

confidence: 91%

An ecological analysis of infant neglect by adolescent mothers

Bartlett

Raskin

Kotake

et al. 2014

Child Abuse & Neglect

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Section: Individual Predictors Of Infant Neglectsupporting

confidence: 91%

An ecological analysis of infant neglect by adolescent mothers

Bartlett

Raskin

Kotake

et al. 2014

Child Abuse & Neglect

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“…While home visiting programmes have demonstrated improvements in child and maternal postnatal outcomes [10], few studies report the effects on neonatal outcomes and fewer still report their impact on maternal labour outcomes. A review of 28 prenatal home visiting programmes found little evidence of improvements in neonatal outcomes such as birth weight and gestational age [11].…”

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Home based educational intervention to improve perinatal outcomes for a disadvantaged community: A randomised control trial

Doyle

McGlanaghy

Palamaro-Munsell

et al. 2014

European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductiv

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“…[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] Some home visitation experts caution that potential program impacts on maltreatment may be obscured by "surveillance effects" because families receiving home visitation (ie, the intervention group) have regular contact with professionals or paraprofessionals who might identify and report instances of maltreatment, whereas families not participating in the program (ie, the control group) are not exposed to the same level of scrutiny. 24,36 The mixed nature of findings for these home visitation programs suggests that the next step is to determine which program strategieswork best for whom and under what conditions.…”

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Limiting Home Visiting Effects: Maternal Depression as a Moderator of Child Maltreatment

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OBJECTIVE: To test, with a sample of adolescent mothers (16–20 at childbirth) and their first-born infants/toddlers (average age 1 year), whether the impact of a home visiting (HV) child maltreatment prevention program was moderated by maternal depression. METHODS: The study design was a randomized controlled trial of Healthy Families Massachusetts, a statewide child maltreatment prevention program. A total of 707 first-time mothers were randomly assigned to the HV or control group. The HV group received visits from paraprofessional home visitors. Mothers in the control group were referred to other service providers. The outcome variable consisted of state Child Protective Services reports of child abuse and neglect (mother or other person as perpetrator). Maternal depression was assessed by maternal report (Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression questionnaire). RESULTS: A considerable proportion of families had child maltreatment reports (30% of sample) and maternal depression (38% had clinically significant symptoms). Most maltreatment was neglect. Among control group mothers, reports of maltreatment did not vary according to depressive symptoms. For HV mothers, probability of reports varied with levels of depressive symptoms. Nonsymptomatic HV mothers were less likely to have a child who was reported for maltreatment compared with HV mothers who endorsed clinical levels of depressive symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of maternal depressive symptoms in this sample, and the link between depression and child maltreatment prevention program effectiveness, suggest that home visitors be alert to maternal depression. Programs also should be aware of possible surveillance effects related to maternal depression.

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What works for home visiting programs: Lessons from experimental evaluation of programs and interventions

Cited by 25 publications

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An ecological analysis of infant neglect by adolescent mothers

An ecological analysis of infant neglect by adolescent mothers

Home based educational intervention to improve perinatal outcomes for a disadvantaged community: A randomised control trial

Limiting Home Visiting Effects: Maternal Depression as a Moderator of Child Maltreatment

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