Projected Outcomes of Nurse-Family Partnership Home Visitation During 1996-2013, USA.

ABSTRACT: Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) targets intensive prenatal and postnatal home visitation by registered nurses to low-income first-time mothers. Through 2013, 177,517 pregnant women enrolled in NFP programs. This article projects how NFP will affect their lives and the lives of their babies. NFP has been evaluated in six randomized trials and several more limited analyses of operational programs. We systematically reviewed evaluation findings on 21 outcomes and calculated effects on three more. We added outcome data from the NFP national data system and personal communications that filled outcome data gaps on some trials. We assumed effectiveness in replication declined by 21.8 %, proportionally with the decline in mean visits per family from trials to operational programs. By 2031, NFP prog

SUBMITTER: Miller TR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4512284 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature