PSYC 3690 Chapter Notes -Complications Of Pregnancy, Human Services, Random Assignment
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Prevent a wide range of maternal and child health problems associated with poverty. Established to improve women s prenatal health habits, infant caregiving skills, social support, use of community services and educational and occupational achievements and to help women reduce unwanted additional pregnancies and their reliance on welfare. Single, teenage and poor mothers and their children. Indicated each woman was screened and found to have one of the 3 risk factors, women who were having their rst child were also welcome to join. Primary because they were trying to reduce incidence of health problems in the child before birth. Risk = being a teenager, unwed and poor. Measures of data collection (what is measured, # of times, and how) Nurse home visitation from pregnancy to the rst 2 years of life, visited evert 2 weeks for 60-90 minutes, followed until age 4. Based on ecological model, meaning the programs need to be understood by their context.