Effectiveness of nurse-home visiting in improving child and maternal outcomes prenatally to age two years: a randomised controlled trial (British Columbia Healthy Connections Project)

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Posted on 19 July 2023

Tags: Perinatal, Person-centred care… Show all

Topics: Perinatal, Person-centred care
Populations: Deprivation, Infants, Parental mental health, Parenting
Interventions: Community based interventions
Publication Types: Blog, Journal article, Randomised controlled trial

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‘Effectiveness of nurse-home visiting in improving child and maternal outcomes prenatally to age two years: a randomised controlled trial (British Columbia Healthy Connections Project)’

Open Access paper from the JCPP

For this randomised controlled trial, we recruited participants from 26 public health settings who were: <25 years, nulliparous, <28 weeks gestation and experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage. We randomly allocated participants (one-to-one; computer-generated) to intervention (NFP plus existing services) or comparison (existing services) groups. Prespecified outcomes were prenatal substance exposure (reported previously); child injuries (primary), language, cognition and mental health (problem behaviour) by age two years; and subsequent pregnancies by 24 months postpartum. Research interviewers were masked. We used intention-to-treat analyses.

Authors: Nicole L. A. Catherine, Harriet MacMillan, Ange Cullen, Yufei Zheng, Hui Xie, Michael Boyle, Debbie Sheehan, Rosemary Lever, Susan M. Jack, Andrea Gonzalez, Amiram Gafni, Lil Tonmyr, Ronald Barr, Lenora Marcellus, Colleen Varcoe, Charlotte Waddell