Enduring Effects of Nurse Home Visitation on Maternal Life Course: A 3-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Trial

Article Abstract:

A nurse home visitation program for new mothers can benefit black women in urban communities. This was the conclusion of a study of 743 black women who were unmarried, uneducated, or unemployed. Compared with women who did not have a visiting nurse, those who did had longer intervals between children and spent less time on AFDC and food stamps.

Single mothers

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Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect With a Program of Nurse Home Visitation: The Limiting Effects of Domestic Violence

Article Abstract:

Domestic violence may prevent many visiting nurses from reducing the rate of child abuse and neglect, according to a study of 324 socially disadvantaged women and their babies. However, home visits reduced child abuse in homes with no domestic violence.

Research, Child abuse, Family violence, Domestic violence

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Effect of prenatal and infancy home visitation by nurses on pregnancy outcomes, childhood injuries, and repeated childbearing: a randomized controlled trial

Article Abstract:

A visiting home nurse can prevent many childhood injuries in low-income families. Researchers evaluated a visiting home nurse program in 1,139 African-American low-income women. The nurses visited the family during the woman's pregnancy and throughout the child's first two years of life. Compared to women who did not have a visiting nurse, women who did have a visiting nurse had a lower rate of pregnancy-induced hypertension and were less likely to get pregnant again. Their children had fewer injuries and fewer hospitalizations for injury or poison ingestion.

Injuries, Children, Pediatric injuries, Pregnant women, Prenatal care, Home nursing, Hypertension in pregnancy, Gestational hypertension

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