Effect of a Universal Postpartum Nurse Home Visiting Program on Child Maltreatment and Emergency Medical Care at 5 Years of Age: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The Family Connects (FC) program, a community-wide nurse home visiting program for newborns, has been shown to provide benefits for children and families through the first 2 years of life. Potential longer-term outcomes for child well-being remain unknown.

Objective

To determine the effect of randomization to FC on child maltreatment investigations and emergency medical care through 5 years of age.

Design, setting, and participants

In this randomized clinical trial, families of all 4777 resident births in Durham County, North Carolina, from July 1, 2009, to December 31, 2010, were randomly assigned to receive the FC program or treatment as usual. Impact evaluation was on an intent-to-treat basis and focused on a subsample of 549 families randomly selected f

SUBMITTER: Goodman WB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8264647 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature