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

SUBMITTER: Kitzman HJ 

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

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature