Parent education home visitation program: Adolescent and nonadolescent mother comparison after six months of intervention
✍ Scribed by Anne McDonald Culp; Rex E. Culp; Maureen Blankemeyer; Linda Passmark
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 86 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0163-9641
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✦ Synopsis
Adolescent and nonadolescent mothers were visited weekly by trained and supervised child development paraprofessionals. The mothers were taught parenting skills, child development, and were linked to community services. Repeated measures multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was used to determine group by time effects. After 6 months of intervention, the mothers significantly improved their knowledge of (1) infant development; (2) empathic responsiveness; and (3) child and parent roles in the family. In addition, the safety of their homes improved significantly and their involvement with agencies in the community increased significantly. The adolescent mothers scored significantly lower than the nonadolescent mothers at baseline on only two measures: knowledge of infant development and understanding of child and parent roles; however, after 6 months of intervention, their scores were not significantly different from the nonadolescent mothers. The model described in this paper seems to help adolescent and nonadolescent mothers even when the adolescent mothers begin the program with less information on child development and parenting than that of nonadolescent mothers.
RESUMEN: Un entrenado y supervisado personal paraprofesional especialista en el desarrollo del nin ˜o visito ´semanalmente a madres adolescentes y no adolescentes. A las madres se les ensen ˜o ´habilidades de crianza, desarrollo del nin ˜o, y se les ayudo ´a establecer una conexio ´n con servicios comunitarios. Las medidas repetitivas de MANOVA su utilizaron para determinar el grupo segu ´n los efectos del tiempo.