Nursing visits enhance outcomes
Nursing visits enhance outcomes
Care produces long-term success
Research conducted by Nurse-Family Partnership shows positive results for the evidence-based community health program focused on high-risk mothers in the first two trimesters of pregnancy.
Outcomes include:
fewer unintended subsequent pregnancies;
32% fewer subsequent pregnancies;
increase in labor force participation by the mother;
83% increase by the child's fourth birthday;
reduction in welfare use;
20% reduction in months on welfare;
increase in father involvement;
46% increase in father's presence in the household;
reduction in criminal activity;
59% reduction in child arrests at age 15;
90% reduction in adjudication as persons in need of supervision (PINS) for incorrigible behavior;
reduction in injuries;
39% fewer injuries among children;
48% reduction in child abuse and neglect;
56% reduction in emergency room visits for accidents and poisonings;
increase in school readiness;
50% reduction in language delays at child age 21 months;
67% reduction in behavioral and intellectual problems at age 6;
26% improvement in math and reading achievement test scores at grades one through three (among low-resource group);
79% reduction in pre-term delivery for women who smoke;
35% fewer hypertensive disorders during pregnancy;
greater intervals between first and subsequent pregnancies, including:
a 28-month greater interval between the pregnancies of the first and second child (among low-income, unmarried group);
31% fewer closely spaced pregnancies (less than six months);
23% reduction in subsequent pregnancies by child age 2.
Source
Nurse-Family Partnership, Denver, CO. 2010
Resource
Nurse-Family Partnership website: www.nursefamilypartnership.org. The website includes information about the care model, how to apply to implement the program, and the type of support the national office can provide.
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