Enduring Effects of Nurse Home Visitation on Maternal Life Course: A 3-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Trial
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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.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2000
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Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect With a Program of Nurse Home Visitation: The Limiting Effects of Domestic Violence
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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.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2000
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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
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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.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1997
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