Citation

Eckenrode J, Campa MI, Morris PA, Henderson CR, Bolger KE, Kitzman H, Olds DL. Child Maltreat. 2016; 22(2): 92-99.

Affiliation

Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077559516685185

PMID

28032513

Abstract

We examine maternal life-course mediators of the impact of a nurse home visitation program on reducing child maltreatment among participants in the Elmira trial of the Nurse Family Partnership program from the first child's birth through age 15. For women having experienced low to moderate levels of domestic violence, program effects on the number of confirmed maltreatment reports were mediated by reductions in numbers of subsequent children born to mothers and their reported use of public assistance. Together, the two mediators explained nearly one half of the total effect of nurse home visiting on child maltreatment. The long-term success of this program on reducing child maltreatment can be explained, at least in part, by its positive effect on pregnancy planning and economic self-sufficiency.

Language: en