Citation

Tandon D, Perry DF, Edwards K, Mendelson T. Health Promot. Pract. 2019; ePub(ePub): 1524839919886293.

Affiliation

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Society for Public Health Education, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1524839919886293

PMID

31718313

Abstract

Perinatal women enrolled in home visiting (HV) programs exhibit high rates of depression, substance use, and intimate partner violence (IPV). While HV programs have increasingly screened for these psychosocial risks, initiation and uptake of community-based services to address these risks remain challenging. This project used a community-engaged research approach to engage key HV stakeholders in developing the screening, referral, and individualized prevention and treatment (SCRIPT) model. We highlight how a group of key HV stakeholders-the SCRIPT Advisory Panel-collaborated with academic researchers to develop the SCRIPT model by reviewing literature on HV programs' response to psychosocial risk factors and qualitative data obtained from mental health, substance use, and IPV service providers to whom HV programs referred clients. SCRIPT focuses on (a) screening for psychosocial risks, (b) developing partnerships with outside agencies to address these risk factors, and (c) establishing concrete and systematic processes for client referral and monitoring with outside agencies. SCRIPT provides a structured model for HV programs to systematically identify clients for key psychosocial risks and structure their referral and monitoring process when working with social service agencies. Future work should examine the impact of SCRIPT on mental health, substance use, and IPV service access and use by a vulnerable population.

Language: en

Keywords

community-based participatory research; domestic; health promotion; health research; intimate partner violence; maternal and infant health; mental health; substance abuse