Nursing visits enhance outcomes

Care produces long-term success

Research conducted by Nurse-Family Partnership shows positive results for the evidence-based community health program focused on high-risk mothers in the first two trimesters of pregnancy.

Outcomes include:

fewer unintended subsequent pregnancies;

32% fewer subsequent pregnancies;

increase in labor force participation by the mother;

83% increase by the child's fourth birthday;

reduction in welfare use;

20% reduction in months on welfare;

increase in father involvement;

46% increase in father's presence in the household;

reduction in criminal activity;

59% reduction in child arrests at age 15;

90% reduction in adjudication as persons in need of supervision (PINS) for incorrigible behavior;

reduction in injuries;

39% fewer injuries among children;

48% reduction in child abuse and neglect;

56% reduction in emergency room visits for accidents and poisonings;

increase in school readiness;

50% reduction in language delays at child age 21 months;

67% reduction in behavioral and intellectual problems at age 6;

26% improvement in math and reading achievement test scores at grades one through three (among low-resource group);

79% reduction in pre-term delivery for women who smoke;

35% fewer hypertensive disorders during pregnancy;

greater intervals between first and subsequent pregnancies, including:

a 28-month greater interval between the pregnancies of the first and second child (among low-income, unmarried group);

31% fewer closely spaced pregnancies (less than six months);

23% reduction in subsequent pregnancies by child age 2.

Source

Nurse-Family Partnership, Denver, CO. 2010

Resource

Nurse-Family Partnership website: www.nursefamilypartnership.org. The website includes information about the care model, how to apply to implement the program, and the type of support the national office can provide.