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Sparr, Mariel; Joraanstad, Alexandra; Atukpawu-Tipton, Grace; Miller, Nicole; Leis, Julie; Filene, Jill – Administration for Children & Families, 2017
To promote prenatal health and improve birth outcomes, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) developed the Strong Start for Mothers and Newborns initiative. The Strong Start initiative is assessing several enhanced prenatal care approaches, including home visiting. As part of the Strong Start initiative, CMS, in partnership with the…
Descriptors: Prenatal Care, Perinatal Influences, Health Promotion, Neonates
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Bulut, Pinar; Barut, Yasar – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The aim of this study was to examine an antenatal orientation interviews training for prospective parents' postnatal depression levels. A quasi-experimental study carried out with 26 (12 experimental, 14 control) prospective mother and father. Participants completed the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale one week before the intervention and 12…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Prenatal Influences, Interviews, Depression (Psychology)
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Koini, Stellah Malaso – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
Background: Millennium Development Goals are the 21st Century worlds' concern to improve human way of life by 2015. In Kenya the Millennium Development Goals for reduction of maternal and child mortality has been recently powered by the beyond zero initiative which started in the year 2014 with the aim of reducing mortality as well as contributing…
Descriptors: Child Health, Infant Mortality, Mothers, Mortality Rate
Perry, Deborah F.; Tandon, S. Darius; Edwards, Karen; Mendelson, Tamar – ZERO TO THREE, 2014
Home visiting (HV) programs serve women at high risk for developing postpartum depression because of factors such as poverty and low social support. Depression poses serious threats not only to mother-child attachment and healthy infant development but also to women's ability to engage with HV services and supports. The Mothers and Babies (MB)…
Descriptors: Perinatal Influences, Intervention, Mothers, Depression (Psychology)
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Meijssen, Dominique; Wolf, Marie-Jeanne; Koldewijn, Karen; Houtzager, Bregje A.; Van Wassenaer, Aleid; Tronick, Ed; Kok, Joke; Van Baar, Anneloes – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2010
Background: Prematurity and perinatal insults lead to increased developmental vulnerability. The home-based Infant Behavioral Assessment and Intervention Program (IBAIP) was designed to improve development of preterm infants. In a multicenter randomized controlled trial the effect of IBAIP on mother-infant interaction was studied as a secondary…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mothers, Premature Infants, Parent Child Relationship
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Wallander, Jan L.; Bann, Carla M.; Biasini, Fred J.; Goudar, Shivaprasad S.; Pasha, Omrana; Chomba, Elwyn; McClure, Elizabeth; Carlo, Waldemar A. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2014
Background: Previous research has indicated positive effects of early developmental intervention (EDI) on the development of children in developing countries. Few studies, however, have examined longitudinally when differential treatment effects may be observed and whether differential outcomes are associated with exposure to different risk…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Longitudinal Studies, Outcomes of Education, Program Effectiveness
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Anastasiow, Nicholas J.; And Others – American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1978
The article describes FEED (Facilitative Environments Encouraging Development), a junior high child development curriculum for potential mothers, intended to result in improved childrearing practices that will in turn offset all or most of the negative effects of the low birthweight and prematurity that are associated with teenage pregnancies.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Curriculum, Junior High Schools