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Mykota, David B. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2008
The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the implementation process for Parenting Plus, an early intervention program in a rural, western Canadian health district. Parenting Plus, as modeled after Hawaii Healthy Start, provides strength-based paraprofessional home visitations to overburdened parents of newborns. The general inductive…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Pilot Projects, Focus Groups, Home Visits
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O'Campo, Patricia; Caughy, Margaret O'Brien; Aronson, Robert; Xue, Xiaonan – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1997
Regression analysis and principal components analysis, which can be used to create perinatal risk profiles of neighborhoods within cities, were compared. Using census tract level low birthweight as the outcome variable, both methods identified factors identifying neighborhoods at risk. Both methods can be used to identify community characteristics…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Census Figures, Community Characteristics, Community Programs