Sentences with phrase «psychologically vulnerable mothers»

In a randomized trial, a home visiting program reduced physical and psychological abuse after 1 year of participation and had the greatest impact on first - time and psychologically vulnerable mothers after 2 years of participation.

The psychologically vulnerable mothers in the intervention displayed significantly less serious abuse and neglect than psychologically vulnerable control group mothers.118

In a randomized trial, a home visiting program reduced physical and psychological abuse after 1 year of participation and had the greatest impact on first - time and psychologically vulnerable mothers after 2 years of participation.

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Mothers were eligible to participate if they did not require the use of an interpreter, and reported one or more of the following risk factors for poor maternal or child outcomes in their responses to routine standardised psychosocial and domestic violence screening conducted by midwives for every mother booking in to the local hospital for confinement: maternal age under 19 years; current probable distress (assessed as an Edinburgh Depression Scale (EDS) 17 score of 10 or more)(as a lower cut - off score was used than the antenatal validated cut - off score for depression, the term «distress» is used rather than «depression»; use of this cut - off to indicate those distressed approximated the subgroups labelled in other trials as «psychologically vulnerable» or as having «low psychological resources» 14); lack of emotional and practical support; late antenatal care (after 20 weeks gestation); major stressors in the past 12 months; current substance misuse; current or history of mental health problem or disorder; history of abuse in mother's own childhood; and history of domestic violence.