Patterns of visit attendance in the nurse-family partnership program.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We examined visit attendance patterns in the Memphis trial of the Nurse-Family Partnership and associations between these patterns and family characteristics, outcomes, and treatment-control differences in outcomes.

Methods

We employed repeated measures latent class analysis to identify attendance patterns among the 228 mothers assigned to receive home nurse visits during pregnancy and until the child was aged 2 years, associated background characteristics, outcomes, and treatment-control differences by visit class. Home visits were conducted from June 1990 to March 1994. We collected outcome data from May 1992 to April 1994 and July 2003 to December 2006.

Results

We identified 3 visit attendance patterns. High attenders (48%) had the most visits and good o

SUBMITTER: Holland ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4161640 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature