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Parent education home visitation program: Adolescent and nonadolescent mother comparison after six months of intervention
Author(s) -
McDonald Culp Anne,
Culp Rex E.,
Blankemeyer Maureen,
Passmark Linda
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
infant mental health journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.693
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1097-0355
pISSN - 0163-9641
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0355(199822)19:2<111::aid-imhj3>3.0.co;2-r
Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , psychology , checklist , curriculum , poverty , medicine , developmental psychology , psychiatry , pedagogy , economics , cognitive psychology , economic growth
Adolescent and nonadolescent mothers were visited weekly by trained and supervised child development paraprofessionals. The mothers were taught parenting skills, child development, and were linked to community services. Repeated measures multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was used to determine group by time effects. After 6 months of intervention, the mothers significantly improved their knowledge of(1) infant development; (2) empathic responsiveness; and (3) child and parent roles in the family. In addition, the safety of their homes improved significantly and their involvement with agencies in the community increased significantly. The adolescent mothers scored significantly lower than the nonadolescent mothers at baseline on only two measures: knowledge of infant development and understanding of child and parent roles; however, after 6 months of intervention, their scores were not significantly different from the nonadolescent mothers. The model described in this paper seems to help adolescent and nonadolescent mothers even when the adolescent mothers begin the program with less information on child development and parenting than that of nonadolescent mothers. © 1998 Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health.