An interventional study of home visitation in Child Rearing, Risk Reduction Behavior and Reproductive Behavior, sponsored by University of Colorado, Denver. Completed. Open to female participants, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2013-01-31.
Sponsored by University of Colorado, Denver · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
To examine the impact of prenatal and infancy home visiting by paraprofessionals and by nurses from child age 2 through 9.
This project supports a 9-year follow-up of 650 children and their families who were enrolled in a randomized trial of prenatal and infancy home visiting by paraprofessionals and by nurses; participating families were assigned to control, paraprofessional-, or nurse-visited conditions. Earlier phases of assessment found significant benefits for nurse- and paraprofessional-visited families and children, although the nurse effects tended to be larger. The current phase of follow-up is designed to determine whether the effects of the nurse and paraprofessional programs endure and grow through the child age 9.5.
The project is organized around seven questions:
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Inclusion Criteria:
Control group
home visitation by Paraprofessional
Behavioral: home visitation
home visitation by Nurse
Behavioral: home visitation
Home visits from mid-pregnancy until child age 2. Group 2 is visits by a paraprofessional; group 3 is visits by nurses.
fewer subsequent pregnancies
Time frame: When first child is 9
increased interval between the birth of the first and second child
Time frame: When first child is 9
reduced use of welfare
Time frame: When first child is 9
increased participation in the work force
Time frame: When first child is 9
reduced behavioral problems due to use of alcohol and drugs
Time frame: When first child is 9
fewer arrests
Time frame: When first child is 9
increased qualities of care parents provide to their children as reflected in fewer verified reports of child abuse and neglect and observations of coercive mother-child interaction.
Time frame: When first child is 9
children's early-onset behavior problems (both externalizing and internalizing) reported by parents and teachers at home, at school, and with peers.
Time frame: At child age 9
children's aggressive and destructive themes and narrative coherence in their responses to story stems.
Time frame: At child age 9
executive functions and school achievement.
Time frame: At child age 9
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