Addressing Maternal Depression, Substance Use, and Intimate Partner Violence in Home Visiting: a Quasi-Experimental Pilot Test of a Screen-and-Refer Approach.

ABSTRACT: This quasi-experimental pilot study describes preliminary impacts of the "Home Visitation Enhancing Linkages Project (HELP)," a pragmatic screen-and-refer approach for promoting identification of and linkage to treatment for maternal depression (MD), substance use (SU), and intimate partner violence (IPV) within early childhood home visiting. HELP includes screening for MD, SU, and IPV followed by a menu of motivational interviewing and case management interventions aimed at linking clients to treatment, designed for delivery within routine home visiting. HELP was piloted within four counties of a statewide home visiting system that were implementing Healthy Families America. HELP clients (N = 394) were compared to clients in five demographically matched counties that received usual Health

SUBMITTER: Dauber S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6883152 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature