Promoting Long-Term Parent and Caregiver Mental Health Through Universal Postnatal Nurse Home Visiting: Intervention Effects and Mechanisms of Action.

ABSTRACT: Poor mental health affects millions of parents and caregivers each year. In the absence of intervention, the duration and magnitude of mental health symptoms can have an adverse impact on parent and caregiver well-being, parenting practices, and subsequent children's development. Although home visiting is hypothesized to impact parent mental health, most studies do not demonstrate sustained benefits over time. Family Connects (FC) is a short-term, universal postnatal nurse home-visiting program designed to support children and families. Evaluations of FC demonstrate 6-month impacts on parent mental health, but longer-term (5-years post intervention) benefits have not been investigated, nor the potential mechanisms of the sustained effect. Every resident birthing family in Durham, NC, over

SUBMITTER: Baziyants GA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12345448 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature