Promoting First Relationships^®: Randomized Trial of a 10-Week Home Visiting Program With Families Referred to Child Protective Services.

ABSTRACT: We conducted a community-based randomized control trial with intent-to-treat analysis on Promoting First Relationships® (PFR), a 10-week home visiting program. The study included 247 families with 10- to 24-month-old children who had a recent, open child protective services investigation of child maltreatment. Families were randomly assigned to receive either the 10-week home visiting PFR service or a telephone-based, three-call resource and referral (R&R) service. Across postintervention time points, parents in the PFR condition scored higher than families in the R&R condition in parent understanding of toddlers' social emotional needs ( d = .35) and observed parental sensitivity ( d = .20). Children in the PFR condition scored lower than children in the comparison condition on an observa

SUBMITTER: Oxford ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5357588 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature