Programs for parents of infants and toddlers: recent evidence from randomized trials
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Programs for parents of young children hold considerable promise for improving children's life-course trajectories and for reducing health and development problems and associated costs to government and society. To date, this promise has not been achieved. Fulfilling the potential of parenting interventions will require substantial improvements in current practice for developing and testing such programs. Intervention development will be improved if clinicians and investigators ground parenting interventions in theory and epidemiology; and carefully pilot them to ascertain program feasibility, participant engagement, and behavioral change prior to testing them in randomized trials. Studies of parenting interventions will be improved if they adhere to the highest standards for randomization; if they examine objectively measured outcomes with clear public health relevance; and if they minimize selection factors known to compromise the analysis of data. Policy and practice recommendations for parenting interventions will be improved if they are based upon replicated randomized controlled trials, if the interventions are tested with different populations living in different contexts, and if they are examined in dissemination studies before public investments are made in such programs. Procedures need to be developed to ensure that the essential elements of evidence-based parenting programs can be implemented reliably in a variety of practice settings so that they will produce the…
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Home visits represent a cost-effective way of identifying and supporting vulnerable families.
“Home visits represent a cost-effective way of identifying and supporting vulnerable families (Olds et al., 2007; Barboza et al., 2018).”
From Extended home visits can provide multidimensional adapted professional support for parents – an intervention study (2023) · cites this paper as Olds et al., 2007
When child health care nurses, in collaboration with family supporters, offer parents more home visits during their children's first year of life, their parenting abilities are strengthened, which has positive effects on their children's health.
“International research has shown that when child health care (CHC) nurses, in collaboration with family supporters (within social service), offer parents more home visits during their children’s first year of life, their parenting abilities are strengthened, which has positive effects on their children’s health (Aronen and Arajarvi, 2000; Olds et al., 2007; Barboza et al., 2018).”
From Extended home visits can provide multidimensional adapted professional support for parents – an intervention study (2023) · cites this paper as Olds et al., 2007
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- Authors
- Olds, D. L., Sadler, L., & Kitzman, H.
- Affiliations
- University of Colorado Denver (US)
- Yale University (US)
- University of Rochester (US)
- Corresponding author
- Olds, David L.
- Venue
- Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2007-03
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 3-4
- Pages
- 355-391
- ISSN
- 0021-9630 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-7610
- OpenAlex
- W2156556518
- Cited by
- 548
- References
- 13
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- FWCI
- 6.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Policy Implementation Science
- Keywords
- parenting support, parent programs, infants and toddlers, nurse home visiting, early childhood development, child health, intervention development, randomized controlled trials, program feasibility, selection bias, dissemination, at-risk parents, public health policy
- MeSH terms
- Child Abuse, Child Behavior Disorders, Developmental Disabilities, Child, Preschool, Community Health Nursing, Education, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Parent-Child Relations, Poverty, Pregnancy, Psychosocial Deprivation, Research Design, Risk Factors, Self-Help Groups, Social Welfare, United States, Program Evaluation, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Early Intervention, Educational, Information Dissemination
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