Visit Attendance Patterns in Nurse-Family Partnership Community Sites.

ABSTRACT: We examined visit attendance patterns of mothers enrolled in the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) home visitation program and associations between these patterns and characteristics of the families and sites, with the goal of increasing participant engagement. We utilized repeated measures latent class analysis to identify attendance patterns among 66,967 mothers in NFP sites across the USA. Mothers enrolled from 1996 to 2010. Data were collected by home visitors and aggregated by the NFP National Service Office. Five visit attendance patterns were identified. Consistent attenders (22%) remained engaged for the full program and attended 51.3 visits on average. Inconsistent attenders (9%) remained engaged but missed many visits, with an average of 36.4 visits. The remaining patterns were char

SUBMITTER: Holland ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5826902 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature