Sentences with phrase «nurse home visiting»
The Australian Health Minister, visiting North Queensland, announced that Wuchopperen Health Service in North Queensland has been selected as one of two sites for the early roll - out of the Australian Government's nurse home visiting program for Indigenous children.
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For example, a 15 year follow up study by Olds and colleagues of a group of mothers randomly allocated to nurse home visiting during pregnancy and early childhood, has shown considerable benefit.
Nagle, Geoffrey A. and Neil W. Boris, «Nurse Home Visiting Impact on Prenatal Maternal Depression and Partner Violence: Preliminary Results,» Tulane University Health Sciences Center — Tulane School of Medicine, 2008.
[4] Olds DL, Kitzman H, Cole R, Robinson J, Sidora K, Luckey D, Henderson C, Hanks C, Bondy J, Holmberg J. «Effects of nurse home visiting on maternal life - course and child development: age - six follow - up of a randomized trial.»
Now that the children have turned 2, the study has evaluated the impact of the sustained nurse home visiting program on:
Gray and McCormick15 cite as examples reduced criminal / antisocial behaviour emerging long term in the Nurse Home Visiting Programme, High Scope / Perry Preschool Study and Chicago Child Parent Centre Programme.
Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study attempted to determine the effect of prenatal and infant / toddler nurse home visiting [now called Nurse Family Partnership (NFP)-RSB- on maternal and child mortality during a 2 - decade period (1990 - 2011).
Family Connects ® is a community - wide nurse home visiting program for parents of newborns residing in a given geographic area.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has endorsed nurse home visiting programs as an effective way to prevent child abuse.
Local agencies have historically collaborated around nurse home visiting to coordinate, share resources and prevent duplication of services.
The Division of Public Health is working with the Center for Child and Family Health and the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University to effectively implement and sustain Northeast Connects, a short - term, community - based, universal newborn nurse home visiting program.
December 7, 2015 (Cleveland, Ohio)-- Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation today announced a $ 1.2 million grant that will bring to Cleveland for the first time a nurse home visiting program proven to curb infant mortality among low - income families.
Families in eight Victorian and Tasmanian communities are invited to participate in a new nurse home visiting research trial designed to promote family wellbeing and child development.
Family Risk as a Predictor of Initial Engagement and Follow - Through in a Universal Nurse Home Visiting Program to Prevent Child Maltreatment Alonso - Marsden, Dodge, O'Donnell, Murphy, Sato, Christopoulos (2013) Child Abuse and Neglect, 37 (8) View Abstract Examines family demographic and infant health risk factors that predict engagement and follow - through in a universal home - based maltreatment prevention program for new mothers in Durham County, North Carolina.
Few prevention programs have been rigorously evaluated, and only a few have proven effective.60, 61 Health - care based prevention programs, including parent education programs to reduce rates of abusive head trauma, and improving physician ambulatory care practices to help families decrease risk factors for child maltreatment have shown good initial results, but require further evaluation.62, 63 Specific intensive home visitation programs such as nurse home visiting programs for first - time mothers have proven to be both clinically and cost effective in preventing maltreatment.64, 65 However, a program of nurse home visitation has been found ineffective as a treatment model for abusive and neglectful families, highlighting the importance of primary prevention, as well as the need to rigorously evaluate potential treatments for abusive families.66 Child welfare services are historically structured as short - term interventions that monitor families for recidivism, provide parenting education and assist with referrals to community - based services.
K. L. Armstrong and others, A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Nurse Home Visiting to Vulnerable Families with Newborns, Journal of Paediatric Child Health, 35 (1999) pp. 237 — 44.
A report from the US Surgeon General concluded that nurse home visiting has shown significant effects on the incidence of violence, delinquency, and other related risk factors.32 Benefits in child development and child health are less clear, and the evidence for their support is inconsistent.
Armstrong and others, A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Nurse Home Visiting to Vulnerable Families with Newborns (see note 24).
Olds and others, Effects of Nurse Home Visiting on Maternal and Child Functioning: Age 9 Follow - Up of a Randomized Trial (see note 69).
For some families, nurse home visiting is augmented by the assistance of NFN's Community Health Workers who provide language interpretation and / or enhanced cultural competency, assistance with material and community resources, and peer support for the infant's caregivers.
▶ The effectiveness of sustained nurse home visiting interventions for vulnerable mothers delivered within a universal child and family heath service has been little studied.
First multisite, multijurisdictional randomised controlled trial to test the effectiveness of sustained nurse home visiting in Australia.
Intervention A sustained and structured nurse home visiting antenatal and postnatal parenting education and support programme.
Objective To investigate the impact of a long - term nurse home visiting programme, embedded within a universal child health system, on the health, development and well - being of the child, mother and family.
Families experiencing the most adversity are often the least able to access health resources and support services.13 To address the need for better reach, sustained nurse home visiting (SNHV) has become increasingly popular as a model of service delivery to improve outcomes for these families.14 Internationally, the best known SNHV programme is the US Nurse - Family Partnership (NFP), also known as Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) in the UK.
These findings are important in the context of the broader implementation of sustained nurse home visiting programmes.
The «right@home» sustained nurse home visiting trial is a research collaboration between the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY); the Translational Research and Social Innovation (TReSI) Group at Western Sydney University; and the Centre for Community Child Health (CCCH), which is a department of the Royal Children's Hospital and a research group of Murdoch Childrens Research Institute.
Recent findings suggest that, regardless of parity, the group benefitting most from nurse home visiting interventions are mothers living in impoverished areas who have lower psychosocial resources during pregnancy (despite the indices used to measure this).1 14 Trials that have had a broader client base, in terms of parity and risk, for example, the New Zealand Early Start programme, 8 15 however, have not yet reported subgroup analyses.
These results are similar to those found in other sustained nurse home visiting studies, 1 14 although the intervention impacted on a broader range of domains of the home environment for this subgroup of women than has been reported previously.1 An increasing body of evidence from both animal and human studies suggests that stress in pregnancy has significant impacts on developmental and behavioural outcomes for children.29 While the mental development of children of mothers who were not distressed antenatally in both the intervention and comparison groups was comparable with the general population, children's development was particularly poor in the distressed subgroup in the absence of the MECSH intervention, suggesting that sustained nurse home visiting may be particularly effective in ameliorating some adverse developmental impacts for children of mothers with antenatal distress.
Sustained nurse home visiting (SNHV) offers a potential platform for families experiencing adversity, who often have limited access to services.
We report the results of the first Australian randomised trial of a sustained nurse home visiting intervention commencing antenatally and continuing to child - age 2 years for families living in a multicultural, socioeconomically disadvantaged urban community.
The effectiveness of this model of sustained nurse home visiting for families from immigrant communities, the impact of nurse home visiting when delivered as a component within a comprehensive child and family health and development service system, 10 11 and the efficacy for older, multiparous compared with teenage first - time mothers, remains largely unexplored.
▶ A long - term nurse home visiting programme embedded in a universal child and family health service system can improve family, maternal and child development outcomes.
NFP is a nurse home visiting program that helps eligible first - time parents learn how to take good care of their babies.
Policy changes enacted in response to our understanding of the biology of trauma are prioritizing earlier interventions like nurse home visiting services for at - risk families, and an increase in pre-kindergarten programs.
Based on the findings, researchers estimate that for cities of a similar size averaging about 3,187 births a year, an annual investment of $ 2.2 million in nurse home visiting would result in a community health care cost savings of about $ 7 million in the first two years of a child's life.
For every $ 1 spent on nurse home visiting for newborns, $ 3 were saved in healthcare costs.
Based on those findings, the authors estimate that for cities of similar size averaging 3,187 births per year, an annual investment of approximately $ 2.2 million in nurse home visiting would yield community healthcare cost savings of about $ 6.7 million in the first six months of life, or $ 3 saved for every $ 1 spent.
«Nurse home visiting programs can prevent inappropriate use of emergency medical care for infants.
The Durham, N.C. program is the first to evaluate the application of a nurse home visiting model to an entire community.
A research study in this month's Archives describes a nurse home visiting program designed to improve breastfeeding rates.
Learn how Durham Connects, which provides nurse home visits to newborns, has been shown to reduce emergency hospital care for them.
As healthcare costs continue to balloon, a new Duke study points to a surprising avenue for potential savings: nurse home visits.
Examples of promising strategies include making home visits to families of chronically absent students, providing nurse home visits to children with asthma, and providing school buses to transport young students to school.
People come together in times of need like the tragic Lilac Fire, but SDHS's tireless volunteers go above and beyond in everyday situations as well, whether standing in the hot sun to welcome people as they visit each campus, helping out during nighttime training classes, reading to roomfuls of cats, or carting guinea pigs, rabbits and rats around for nursing home visits.
The nature of the greyhound does make them candidates as therapy dogs, especially for hospital and nursing home visits.
In addition to his nursing home visits, Flash and Jaetta will begin working together to raise money for local animal rescue groups.
Community service, such as nursing home visits, obedience demonstrations in the community or a «Walk with Fido» for charity.
The Shelter is always looking for volunteers to take a carefully selected dog or cat on a nursing home visit, or teach children the importance of responsible pet ownership.
I have participated with my dogs in service and community education projects and group activities with Dog Scouts of America, and enjoyed making nursing home visits with a certified therapy dog.