Randomized controlled trial of universal postnatal nurse home visiting: impact on emergency care.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Although nurse home visiting has proven efficacious with small samples, scaling up to community populations with diverse families has not yet proven effective. The Durham Connects program was developed in collaboration with community leaders as a brief, universal, postnatal nurse home visiting intervention designed to screen for risk, provide brief intervention, and connect families with more intensive evidence-based services as needed. This study tested program effectiveness in reducing infant emergency medical care between birth and age 12 months.

Methods

All 4777 resident births in Durham, North Carolina across 18 months were randomly assigned, with even birth date families to intervention and odd birth date families to control. Intervention fami

SUBMITTER: Dodge KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3943376 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature