A comparison pilot study of public health field nursing home visitation program interventions for pregnant Hispanic adolescents.
OBJECTIVE
Improve pregnancy outcomes in first-time Hispanic adolescent mothers and their infants.


METHODS
Urban communities in Orange County, California.


METHODS
A comparison of the Nurse-Family Partnership pilot study home visitation program with traditional Public Health Field Nursing (PHFN) home visitation.


METHODS
Two hundred twenty-five Hispanic adolescent mothers and their infants.


METHODS
Participants in the control group received the traditional PHFN services; the intervention group received interventions from advanced trained public health nurses The control group received a minimum of three home visits: one initial client assessment and family profile, one antepartum visit, and one postpartum visit, including newborn assessment. Participants in the intervention group received weekly home visits for the first 4 weeks, followed by visits every other week until delivery, weekly visits for the next 6 weeks, visits every other week until the child was 20 months, and monthly visits until the child was 24 months of age.


RESULTS
Preliminary results indicate that home visitation by public health nurses (PHNs) positively affected the health of adolescents mothers and their infants. The incidence of premature births to adolescent mothers in the intervention group was lower than that found in the California population of adolescent mothers.


CONCLUSIONS
Preliminary results from this program showed that PHN home visitation (control and intervention groups) positively affects the birth outcomes of adolescent mothers and their infants.
Nguyen
Jody Duong
JD
Orange County Health Care Agency, Santa Ana, California 92706, USA. Jnguyen@hca.co.orange.ca.us
Carson
Michael L
ML
Parris
Kathleen M
KM
Place
Patricia
P
D000293:Adolescent; D002140:California; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011637:Public Health Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000592:standards*