Maternal depression, alcohol use, and transient effects of perinatal paraprofessional home visiting in South Africa: Eight-year follow-up of a cluster randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

South African mothers confront synergistic challenges from depression, alcohol use, and HIV/AIDS. The importance of maternal functioning for child development motivates interventions, yet long-term outcomes seldom are tracked. Furthermore, little is known about trajectories and the role of social-cultural factors in maternal depression and alcohol use across parenthood in low- and middle-income countries.

Methods

We examined maternal outcomes at 5- and 8-years' post-birth, from the Philani Intervention Program (PIP), a randomized controlled trial of a prenatally-initiated home visiting intervention lasting through 6 months' post-birth which yielded some benefits for children and mothers through 3 years. Longitudinal Bayesian mixed-effects models assessed intervent

SUBMITTER: Rotheram-Borus MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10121853 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature