Sentences with phrase «visiting on birth outcomes»

She is also co-project director of two evaluations of home visiting programs — the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE), which is assessing the federal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, and MIHOPE - Strong Start, which is examining the effects of home visiting on birth outcomes and maternal and infant health care use.

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Most trials of prenatal home visiting have produced disappointing effects on pregnancy outcomes such as birth weight and gestational age, 9,16,17 although one program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses has reduced prenatal tobacco use in two trials18, 19 and has reduced pregnancy - induced hypertension in a large sample of African - Americans.20

The detailed examples provided in midwives» accounts may usefully assist the reader in this regard, but further research is required to explore the topic more fully and to examine the impact of the interventions identified (e.g. management of early labour, home visits in early labour, delayed admission to hospital, water birth, Verbena cocktail) on the progress of labour and birth outcomes.

A randomised control trial conducted in BC [30] found home visits in early labour to be more effective than telephone triage in reducing the number of women attending the hospital for assessment before they are in labour and those attending before 3 cm cervical dilation, although the home visits had no impact on CS rates or birth outcomes.

MIHOPE - Strong Start is the largest random assignment study to date examining the effects of home visiting services on birth and health outcomes and health care use.

This includes improved birth, health and child development outcomes, and reductions in child maltreatment.15 A number of SNHV programmes have also shown favourable effects on healthcare usage, including rates of well - child healthcare visits.15

Although most outcomes were reviewed at program completion to observe the effects of a high - intensity comprehensive treatment program for low - birth - weight infants, 39 certain outcomes were examined after the first year and provide a test of the home - visiting component on its own.40

The effect of home visiting programs on mothers» life - course (subsequent pregnancies, education, employment, and use of welfare) is disappointing overall.10 In the trial of the nurse home visitor program described above, there were enduring effects of the program 15 years after birth of the first child on maternal life - course outcomes (e.g., interpregnancy intervals, use of welfare, behavioural problems due to women's use of drugs and alcohol, and arrests among women who were low - income and unmarried at registration).21 The effects of this program on maternal life - course have been replicated in separate trials with urban African - Americans20, 23,24 and with Hispanics.18

Most trials of prenatal home visiting have produced disappointing effects on pregnancy outcomes such as birth weight and gestational age, 9,16,17 although one program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses has reduced prenatal tobacco use in two trials18, 19 and has reduced pregnancy - induced hypertension in a large sample of African - Americans.20

«The MIHOPE - Strong Start study offers the HFA network an opportunity to better understand home visiting's impacts on birth outcomes when families are enrolled prior to 32 weeks gestation.

This session will focus on state - level efforts to promote positive birth outcomes and the key role home visiting plays in these efforts.

The Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation - Strong Start (MIHOPE - Strong Start) is examining the effectiveness of home visiting services on improving birth and maternal health outcomes for women who are enrolled in Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), as well as their effectiveness at reducing costly health care encVisiting Program Evaluation - Strong Start (MIHOPE - Strong Start) is examining the effectiveness of home visiting services on improving birth and maternal health outcomes for women who are enrolled in Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), as well as their effectiveness at reducing costly health care encvisiting services on improving birth and maternal health outcomes for women who are enrolled in Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), as well as their effectiveness at reducing costly health care encounters.

The first section, presented by Kay Johnson, will provide a national perspective on improving birth outcomes, including US policy and programs addressing preterm birth prevention and use of home visiting to improve birth outcomes.

Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to: (1) Recognize national statistics on indicators of birth outcomes in the United States and understand regional, racial, and ethnic disparities across indicators, (2) Identify examples of existing state efforts to promote positive birth outcomes, (3) Synthesize and apply information to their local contexts and determine implications for home visiting.

It will be the largest study to examine the effectiveness of home visiting services on improving birth outcomes and infant and maternal health care use.

These studies will be discussed in the broader context of literature on birth outcomes and home visiting, highlighting the many challenges of preterm birth prevention in a real - world implementation setting.

Compared to control groups, babies of parents enrolled prenatally in home visiting programs had better birth outcomes, and the programs were found to have a positive impact on breastfeeding and immunization rates., In other randomized trials, participating children were found to have a reduction in language delays at 21 months, reductions in mental health problems, fewer behavior problems, and increased mental development.

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.

It will study the impact of two home visiting models (Healthy Families America and Nurse - Family Partnership) on birth outcomes and infant health.

Extensive data were collected on mothers» demographic characteristics, health history, including maternal history of asthma, prenatal and postnatal maternal psychological distress (anxiety, depression or stress), maternal social support (specifically the extent of partner / spouse support) and children's birth and health outcomes including breastfeeding status (at 3 months) from the APrON surveys completed at prenatal or postnatal clinic visits or sent in by mail.

First, we examined the relationships of plausible covariates, including gender, birth - weight, post-conceptual age on the visit day (gestational age + days of life since birth to the visit day), ethnicity, prenatal smoking exposure, and child sleep condition at the time of EEG recording with outcome measures (frontal EEG power, functional connectivity at 6 and 18 months of age, or behavioral scores at 24 months of age).