Age 6 Test of Home Visits by Nurses vs Paraprofessionals

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

604 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2001-03-31

Study Completion Date

2007-12-31

Brief Summary

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To examine the impact of prenatal and infancy home visiting by paraprofessionals and by nurses from child age 2 through 6.

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Detailed Description

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This project supports an age-six assessment of 669 children and their families who were enrolled in a randomized trail that compared prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses versus paraprofessionals. Both groups of visitors in each study employed essentially the same program model. The program model has proven to be effective using nurses when focused on European-American and African Americans in earlier trails conducted over the past 20 years. Paraprofessional visitors in the current trail share many of the social characteristics of the families they visited. The current study also allows us to examine the extent to which these different visitor types produce effects with Mexican Americans that are similar to those achieved with European-Americans and African Americans in previous trails of this program using nurse home visitors. The sample is composed of low-income women who had no previous live births and who were substantially ethnic minorities (46 percent Mexican American, 16 percent African American, and 3 percent Native American/Asian), unmarried (87 percent), and less than 19 years of age (58 percent) at the time of registration during pregnancy.

In earlier phases of assessment, the nurse-visitor program was found to reduce women's use of tobacco during pregnancy; to improve the home environments and quality of care that mothers provided to their children; to improve the language and mental development of children born to mothers with low psychological resources (where psychological resources were defined as high rates of mental disorder symptoms, limited intellectual functioning, and little belief in their control over their life circumstances); and to improve maternal life-course, as reflected in fewer subsequent pregnancies and increases in employment. The paraprofessional program produced smaller, mostly non-significant and inconsistent effects while the program was in operation, but recent evidence from a 4-year follow up of the sample now suggests that paraprofessional program effects on parental caregiving and child development may be increasing as the children mature. The current proposal seeks support to determine whether the beneficial effects of the nurse home visiting program endure through the children's completion of kindergarten at age six, and whether beneficial effects emerge at this later time period for families visited by paraprofessionals.

Conditions

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Child Rearing Risk Reduction Behavior Reproductive Behavior

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

TRIPLE

Participants Caregivers Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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1

Control group

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

2

Paraprofessional home visits

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

home visitation

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Home visitation from midway through pregnancy until child age 2. Group 2 is visitation by Paraprofessionals; group 3 is home visitation by Nurses.

3

Nurse home visitation

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

home visitation

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Home visitation from midway through pregnancy until child age 2. Group 2 is visitation by Paraprofessionals; group 3 is home visitation by Nurses.

Interventions

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home visitation

Home visitation from midway through pregnancy until child age 2. Group 2 is visitation by Paraprofessionals; group 3 is home visitation by Nurses.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Women were recruited from 21 antepartum clinics serving low-income women in Denver if they had no previous live births and either qualified for Medicaid or had no private insurance.

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes