Early Childhood Home Visitation

Studies Included in the Evidence Review

To Prevent Child Maltreatment

Armstrong KA. A treatment and education program for parents and children who are at-risk of abuse and neglect. Child Abuse Neglect 1981;5:167–75.

Barth RP. An experimental evaluation of in-home child abuse prevention services. Child Abuse Neglect 1991;15:363–75.

Brayden R, Altemeier W, Dietrich M, et al. A prospective study of secondary prevention of child maltreatment. J Pediatr 1993;122:511– 6.

Brooten D, Kumar S, Brown LP, et al. A randomized clinical trial of early hospital discharge and home follow-up of very-low-birth-weight infants. N Engl J Med 1986;315:934 –9.

Caruso Whitney GA. Early intervention for high-risk families: reflecting on a 20-year-old model. In: Albee GW, Gullotta TP, eds. Primary prevention works. Thousand Oaks CA: Sage, 1997:68–86.

Dawson P, Van Doornick WJ, Robinson JL. Effects of home-based, informal social support on child health. J Dev Behav Pediatr 1989;10:63–7.

Duggan A, Windham A, McFarlane E, et al. Hawaii’s healthy start program of home visiting for at-risk families: evaluation of family identification, family engagement, and service delivery. Pediatrics 2000;105:250 –9.

Flynn L. The adolescent parenting program: improving outcomes through mentorship. Public Health Nurs 1999;16:182–9.

Gray JD, Cutler CA, Dean JG, Kempe CH. Prediction and prevention of child abuse and neglect. J Social Issues 1979;35:127–39.

Hardy JB, Street R. Family support and parenting education in the home: an effective extension of clinic-based preventive health care services for poor children. J Pediatr 1989;115:927–31.

Honig AS, Morin C. When should programs for teen parents and babies begin? Longitudinal evaluation of a teen parents and babies program. J Primary Prev 2001;21:447–54.

Huxley P, Warner R. Primary prevention of parenting dysfunction in high risk cases. Am J Orthopsychiatry 1993;63:582– 8.

Katzev A, Pratt C, Henderson T, McGuigan W. Oregon’s Healthy Start effort: 1997–98 status report. Corvallis: Oregon State University Family Policy Program, 1999.

Kitzman H, Olds DL, Henderson JrCR , et al. Effect of prenatal and infancy home visitation by nurses on pregnancy outcomes, childhood injuries, and repeated childbearing: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA 1997;278:644–52.

Larson CP. Efficacy of prenatal and postnatal home visits on child health and development. Pediatrics 1980;66:191–7.

Marcenko MO, Spence M, Samost L. Outcomes of a home visitation trial for pregnant and postpartum women at-risk for child placement. Child Youth Services Rev 1996;18:243–59.

Mulsow MH, Murry VM. Parenting on edge: economically stressed, single, African American adolescent mothers. J Fam Issues 1996;17:704 –21.

Olds DL, Eckenrode J, Henderson CR Jr, et al. Long-term effects of home visitation on maternal life course and child abuse and neglect: fifteen-year follow-up of a randomized trial. JAMA 1997;278:637– 43.

Siegel E, Bauman KE, Schaefer ES, Saunders MM, Ingram DD. Hospital and home support during infancy: impact on maternal attachment, child abuse and neglect, and health care utilization. Pediatrics 1980;66:183–90.

Velasquez J, Christensen M, Schommer B. Intensive services help prevent child abuse. Am J Maternal Child Nurs 1984;9:113–7.

Wagner MM, Clayton SL. The Parents as Teachers program: results from two demonstrations. Future Child 1999;9:91–115.

To Prevent Intimate Partner Violence

Eckenrode J. What works in nurse home visiting programs. In: Alexander G, Curtis PA, Kluger MP, eds. What works in child welfare. Washington DC: Child Welfare League of America, Inc., 2000:35–43.

To Prevent Violence by Parents

Olds DL, Eckenrode J, Henderson CR Jr, et al. Long-term effects of home visitation on maternal life course and child abuse and neglect: fifteen-year follow-up of a randomized trial. JAMA 1997;278:637– 43.

To Prevent Violence by Children

Achenbach TM, Howell CT, Aoki MF, Rauh VA. Nine-year outcome of the Vermont intervention program for low birth weight infants. Pediatrics 1993;91:45–55.

Lally JR, Mangione PL, Honig AS. The Syracuse University Family Development Research Program: long-range impact of an early intervention with low-income children and their families. In: Powell DR, ed. Parent education as early childhood intervention: emerging directions in theory, research and practice. Norwood, NJ: Alex Publishing Corporation, 1988:79–104.

Olds DL, Henderson CR Jr, Cole R, et al. Long-term effects of nurse home visitation on children’s criminal and antisocial behavior: 15-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial. JAMA 1998;280:1238–44.

St. Pierre RG, Layzer JI. Using home visits for multiple purposes: the Comprehensive Child Development Program. Future Child 1999;9:134 –51.