Effects of home visiting on adolescent mothers' parenting attitudes.
We examined the impact of a home visiting intervention on 227 adolescent mothers' parenting attitudes. At enrollment, half of mothers were at risk for child maltreatment. Mothers assigned to intervention (n = 161) received home visits and case management. Intervention and comparison mothers (n = 66) participated in monthly peer group meetings. Regression analyses controlling for enrollment differences indicated that intervention group mothers had significant improvements in 3 of 5 subscales and in total Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory-2 scores relative to the comparison group.
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, 72205, USA. mckelveylorraine@uams.edu
Lorraine M
LM
McKelvey
Nicola A
NA
Burrow
Appathurai
A
Balamurugan
Leanne
L
Whiteside-Mansell
Pamela
P
Plummer
D000293:Adolescent; D001290:Attitude; D019090:Case Management; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006792:House Calls; D006801:Humans; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D016487:Parenting; D012044:Regression Analysis; D014481:United States