title: Benefits of increased home-visitation services: exploring a case management model.
abstract: This study examined outcome measures of a home-visitation program that provided services to first-born children and their parents. Home-visitation workers conducted pretest-posttest assessments for prenatal and postpartum periods for 109 families. Families were assessed using the Revised North Carolina Family Assessment Scale. Paired sample t tests were used to assess effect. Ordinary least squares regression measured effect of increased home-visitation services on family well-being. In this study, program participants displayed significantly higher posttest scores on social support, caregiver characteristics, family interaction measures, and a reduction in personal problems affecting parenting. Improved scores were significantly related to increased numbers of home-visitation services. The results are promising as participants were observed to make positive improvements in family resiliency.
authors.affiliation: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA.
authors.forename: Iván A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: de la Rosa
authors.forename: Joanne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Perry
authors.forename: Victoria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001722:Birth Order; D005190:Family; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006792:House Calls; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health; D008800:Mexico; D010290:Parents; D011181:Postnatal Care; D011204:Poverty Areas; D011295:Prenatal Care; D012944:Social Support; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult