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Enduring effects of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses on children: follow-up of a randomized trial among children at age 12 years.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test the effect of prenatal and infancy home visits by nurses on 12-year-old, firstborn children's use of substances, behavioral adjustment, and academic achievement.

Design

Randomized controlled trial.

Setting

Public system of obstetric and pediatric care in Memphis, Tennessee.

Participants

We studied 12-year-old, firstborn children (n = 613) of primarily African American, economically disadvantaged women (743 randomized during pregnancy).

Intervention

Program of prenatal and infancy home visits by nurses.

Outcome measures

Use of cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana; internalizing, externalizing, and total behavioral problems; and academic achievement.

Results

By the time the firstborn child was 12 years of age, those visited by nurses, compared with those in the control group, reported fewer days of having used cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana during the 30-day period before the 12-year interview (0.03 vs 0.18, P = .02) and were less likely to report having internalizing disorders that met the borderline or clinical threshold (22.1% vs 30.9%, P = .04). Nurse-visited children born to mothers with low psychological resources, compared with their control group counterparts, scored higher on the Peabody Individual Achievement Tests in reading and math (88.78 vs 85.70, P = .009) and, during their first 6 years of education, scored higher on group-administered standardized tests of math and reading achievement (40.52 vs 34.85, P = .02). No statistically significant program effects were found on children's externalizing or total behavioral problems.

Conclusions

Through age 12, the program reduced children's use of substances and internalizing mental health problems and improved the academic achievement of children born to mothers with low psychological resources.

SUBMITTER: Kitzman HJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4225617 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Enduring effects of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses on children: follow-up of a randomized trial among children at age 12 years.

Kitzman Harriet J HJ Olds David L DL Cole Robert E RE Hanks Carole A CA Anson Elizabeth A EA Arcoleo Kimberly J KJ Luckey Dennis W DW Knudtson Michael D MD Henderson Charles R CR Holmberg John R JR

Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine 20100501 5

<h4>Objective</h4>To test the effect of prenatal and infancy home visits by nurses on 12-year-old, firstborn children's use of substances, behavioral adjustment, and academic achievement.<h4>Design</h4>Randomized controlled trial.<h4>Setting</h4>Public system of obstetric and pediatric care in Memphis, Tennessee.<h4>Participants</h4>We studied 12-year-old, firstborn children (n = 613) of primarily African American, economically disadvantaged women (743 randomized during pregnancy).<h4>Interventi ...[more]

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Enduring effects of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses on children: follow-up of a randomized trial among children at age 12 years.

Objective

Design

Setting

Participants

Intervention

Outcome measures

Results

Conclusions

Publications

Enduring effects of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses on children: follow-up of a randomized trial among children at age 12 years.

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