Impacts of a Home Visiting Program Enhanced with Content on Healthy Birth Spacing
- PDF / 1,755,127 Bytes
- 14 Pages / 595.276 x 790.866 pts Page_size
- 20 Downloads / 167 Views
Impacts of a Home Visiting Program Enhanced with Content on Healthy Birth Spacing Susan Zief1 · John Deke1 · Paul Burkander1 · Andrew Langan1 · Subuhi Asheer1
© The Author(s) 2020
Abstract Objectives This study sought to determine the impact of Healthy Families Healthy Futures (HFHF) enhanced with Steps to Success (STS). HFHF is a structured home visiting program for teen parents in Houston that focuses on improving parenting skills and preventing child abuse. HFHF enhanced with STS includes content and activities aimed to reduce repeat pregnancies within 24 months after the first child’s birth. Methods The study team recruited 248 young mothers for the study, primarily through local health clinics and schools, and then randomly assigned them to either a treatment group that was eligible to participate in HFHF enhanced with STS or to a control group. The control group was not offered any other program through the study. Outcomes were measured by a survey administered 12 months after program intake, in five domains aligned with the program’s logic model: (1) exposure to information related to program content, (2) contraception knowledge, (3) contraception use, (4) enhanced family functioning, and (5) child health and development. To estimate program impacts, we used ordinary least squares regression, controlling for demographics and baseline measures of the outcome variables, if available. We use both frequentist approaches (calculations of statistical significance) and Bayesian posterior probabilities to interpret the findings. Results HFHF enhanced with STS significantly (p
Data Loading...
