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Maternal and Child Health & Well-Being
Maternal and child health and well-being are foundational to strong families, shaping children at every stage from pregnancy through long-term development. Research shows that early, preventive supports, such as home-visiting programs and prenatal and pediatric care, can strengthen parental physical and mental health, positive family relationships, and children’s healthy development. We invest in evidence-based approaches to supporting maternal and child health so that children have the early foundations they need for later success.
Completed
Validation of the CONNECT Survey Co-Designed with Parents to Strengthen Parent/Caregiver-Clinician Relationships in Pediatric Primary Care
This validation study examines the reliability and validity of the Reach Out and Read (ROR) CONNECT Survey, a brief parent survey co-designed with families to measure the relational aspects of a well-child visit.
Completed
Validation of the Kidsights Measurement Tool: A Parent-Reported Instrument to Track Children’s Development at the Population Level
The Kidsights Measurement Tool (KMT) is a parent-report, population-level measure for children from birth to age five that tracks group-level differences in motor, cognitive, language, and social-emotional development. This validation study examines KMT’s feasibility for use in large-scale, representative surveys to generate population-based estimates of early development and address the current gap in scalable, holistic indicators of child well-being.
Completed
Group Multimodal Prenatal Care and Postpartum Outcomes
This study aimed to understand whether there were differences in postpartum outcomes for mothers participating in group multimodal prenatal care (GMPC via CenteringPregnancy’s model) and individual multimodal prenatal care (IMPC) delivered through a combination of remotely delivered and in-person visits.
Completed
Implementing CenteringParenting Model With an Urban Pediatric Population to Measure and Improve Clinical Outcomes and Parent Satisfaction
This is a retrospective unmatched comparison group study of CenteringParenting, a group healthcare intervention for families and their children.
Completed
Effect of Nurse-Family Partnership’s Intensive Nurse Home Visiting Program on Adverse Birth Outcomes in a Medicaid-Eligible Population: A Randomized Clinical Trial
This is a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of Nurse-Family Partnership, a nurse home visitation program for first-time mothers during their pregnancy and until their children’s second birthday.
Completed
Effect of Family Connects’ Universal Postpartum Nurse Home Visiting Program on Child Maltreatment and Emergency Medical Care at 5 Years of Age: A Randomized Clinical Trial
This is a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of Durham Connects (later renamed Family Connects), a universal home visitation program for families with a newborn child designed to improve children’s well-being through a series of nurse home visits, risk screenings, and referrals to community resources.
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Completed study findings aligned with this question in our repository include:
- Effect of Nurse-Family Partnership’s Intensive Nurse Home Visiting Program on Adverse Birth Outcomes in a Medicaid-Eligible Population: A Randomized Clinical Trial
- Effect of Family Connects’ Universal Postpartum Nurse Home Visiting Program on Child Maltreatment and Emergency Medical Care at 5 Years of Age: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Completed study findings aligned with this question in our repository include:
- Effect of Nurse-Family Partnership’s Intensive Nurse Home Visiting Program on Adverse Birth Outcomes in a Medicaid-Eligible Population: A Randomized Clinical Trial
- Effect of Family Connects’ Universal Postpartum Nurse Home Visiting Program on Child Maltreatment and Emergency Medical Care at 5 Years of Age: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Completed study findings aligned with this question in our repository include:
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