Randomized controlled trial of Family Connects: Effects on child emergency medical care from birth to 24 months.

ABSTRACT: One of Tom Dishion's most significant contributions to prevention science was the development of affordable, ecologically valid interventions, such as the Family Check-Up, that screen for child and family risk factors broadly, but concentrate family-specific interventions on those with greatest potential for population impact. In the spirit of this approach, investigators examined effects of a brief, universal postnatal home visiting program on child emergency medical care and billing costs from birth to age 24 months. Family Connects is a community-wide public health intervention that combines identification and alignment of community services and resources with brief, postpartum nurse home visits designed to assess risk, provide supportive guidance, and connect families with identified r

SUBMITTER: Goodman WB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7061922 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature