Impacts of a Home Visiting Program Enhanced with Content on Healthy Birth Spacing.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study sought to determine the impact of Healthy Families Healthy Futures (HFHF) enhanced with Steps to Success (STS). HFHF is a structured home visiting program for teen parents in Houston that focuses on improving parenting skills and preventing child abuse. HFHF enhanced with STS includes content and activities aimed to reduce repeat pregnancies within 24 months after the first child's birth.

Methods

The study team recruited 248 young mothers for the study, primarily through local health clinics and schools, and then randomly assigned them to either a treatment group that was eligible to participate in HFHF enhanced with STS or to a control group. The control group was not offered any other program through the study. Outcomes were measured by a survey admin

SUBMITTER: Zief S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7497386 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature