Findings from a program of research on prenatal and early childhood home visitation: Special issue introduction

✍ Scribed by David Olds; Jon Korfmacher

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 54 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0090-4392
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6629(199801)26:1<1::aid-jcop1>3.0.co;2-1

✦ Synopsis

In this issue of the Journal of Community Psychology, the second of a two-part series, we have been given the opportunity to assemble articles on the empirical results from a program of research examining the efficacy of prenatal and early childhood home-visitation as a means of improving the outcomes of pregnancy, the care that parents provide to their children, and women's own personal development. Occurring over pregnancy and the first two years of the child's life, the program serves low-income pregnant women (and their families) who have had no previous live births. It has been examined in three successive randomized trials (in Elmira, New York; Memphis, Tennessee; and Denver, Colorado).

The first special issue of the Journal (Olds & Korfmacher, 1997) provided an opportunity to describe the evolution of the program over time, it's theoretical underpinnings, and qualitative examination of program implementation challenges. In the current issue, we bring a stronger empirical focus to the work, giving particular attention to