title: Prenatal screening for risk of major parenting problems: further results from the Queen Mary Maternity Hospital Child Care Unit.
abstract: This research revealed in Stage I the ability to identify during the prenatal period women at risk for possible child abuse and in Stage II an intervention program which when introduced resulted in fewer high-risk mothers relinquishing the care of their infants. The research had two main aims: to use the data from Stages I and II to reassess the criteria for identifying "at risk" mothers, and to develop a brief, easily administered screening questionnaire which could be standardized for widespread prenatal use; and to collect data on a random sample of prenatal patients, to use these data for confirming the validity and stability of the screening procedures, and to estimate the incidence of potentially high-risk mothers in an urban population.
mesh_terms: D002649:Child Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006771:Hospitals, Maternity; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009520:New Zealand; D011247:Pregnancy; D012306:Risk; D012718:Set, Psychology; D012931:Social Environment; D014754:Violence