SAFE Home Study: The Model Home Study for Adoption and Foster Care Consortium for Children (2006) Provides home study practitioners with a structured method to process, analyze, and assess the information
they collect during a home study culminating in a comprehensive evaluation of family functioning.
Not exact matches
Information had been
collected retrospectively on a random sample of 100 women delivered outside hospital in 1983 and on all women delivered outside hospital in the region in 1988.7 Contemporaneous data were also
collected on every delivery outside hospital
during 1993.8 In these three
studies only 53 %, 55 % (132/240), and 44 % (142/324) of women delivered outside hospital were actually booked for a
home birth when labour began.
Estimates of the numbers of women booked for
home birth but delivering in hospital were even more difficult to obtain because hospital records do not always specify this information accurately and no national estimate exists.1 4 Data
collected in this region in 1983 suggested that 35 % of these women changed to hospital based care either before or
during labour, and a more detailed prospective
study of all planned
home births in 1993 found a total transfer rate of 43 %.8 Women were classified as having booked for a
home birth when a community midwife had accepted a woman for
home delivery and had this arrangement accepted by her manager and supervisor of midwives at any stage in pregnancy, irrespective of any later change of plan.
All measures were
collected during a
home visit to the families at baseline (within 2 months of the start of the programme) and at 9 months from baseline (ie, 6 months postcompletion of intervention).55 In addition, self - completion questionnaires covering the parent / self - report outcomes were
collected at baseline, 3 months and 9 months.55 Data on the resources associated with the implementation of FLNP were
collected from structured interviews with key staff at each of the four
study sites, collection of financial information at each site (eg, estimates of room hire and crèche facilities) and discussions with the main trial team.55
Data for the implementation and impact
studies will be
collected from a variety of sources, including interviews with parents; observations of the
home environment; observed interactions of parents and children; direct assessments of children's development; observations of
home visitors in their work with families
during home visits; logs, observations, and interviews with
home visitors, supervisors, and program administrators; program model documentation from program developers, grantees, and local sites; and administrative data on child abuse, health care use, maternal health, birth outcomes, and employment and earnings.
Using data
collected to evaluate the Hawaii Healthy Start Program (same as Healthy Families America), the
study estimated over two 3 - year intervals (
during program implementation and over long - term follow - up) whether
home visitation beginning after the birth of a child was associated with changes in (1) average rates of mothers» IPV victimization and perpetration and (2) rates of specific IPV types (physical assault, verbal abuse, sexual assault, and injury).