Prenatal and Infancy Nurse Home Visiting and 18-Year Outcomes of a Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Given earlier effects found in randomized clinical trials of the Nurse-Family Partnership, we examined whether this program would improve 18-year-old first-born youths' cognition, academic achievement, and behavior and whether effects on cognitive-related outcomes would be greater for youth born to mothers with limited psychological resources (LPR) and on arrests and convictions among females.

Methods

We enrolled 742 pregnant, low-income women with no previous live births and randomly assigned them to receive either free transportation for prenatal care plus child development screening and referral (control; n = 514) or prenatal and infant home nurse visit (NV) plus transportation and screening (n = 228). Assessments were completed on 629 18-year-old

SUBMITTER: Kitzman H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6889968 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature