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Extended prenatal and postnatal home visits in a vulnerable area in Sweden--a pilot study.
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- المؤلفون: Kuo Zhe Chin1,2; Marklund, Bertil3,4; Kylén, Sven4,5; Dalemo, Sofia1,2,3
- المصدر:
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care. Dec2023, Vol. 41 Issue 4, p486-494. 9p.
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- نبذة مختصرة :
Objective: Despite close to all-embracing access to child healthcare, health divides exist among children in Sweden. Home visits to families with new-born babies are a cost-effective way to identify and strengthen vulnerable families. An extended postnatal home visiting programme has been implemented in a disadvantaged suburb in Stockholm with positive results. Design: Longitudinal, prospective study and register study from medical records. Setting: A vulnerable rural area in Sweden. Intervention: A parent advisor from the social services and a midwife performed an extended home visiting programme during the end of pregnancy to mothers of children born between 1 May 2018 and 31 May 2019. During these children's first 15months, three additional home visits were made by a parent advisor and a child healthcare nurse. The aim of the study is to evaluate the effect of the intervention on the health of the children and the mothers. Subjects: All firstborn children at the study site (N=30 study, N=55 control group). Main outcome measures: The proportion participating in visits to the child and maternal healthcare services, children being breastfed and receiving childhood vaccinations. Results: There were fewer absentees in the study group during routine check-up visits (93 vs. 84%). More mothers in the study group attended the check-up with the midwives (90 vs. 80%). More children in the study group were breastfed (90 vs. 67%) and received all vaccinations (100 vs. 96%). Conclusion: Supplementing the extended home visiting programme with a visit at the end of pregnancy seems to contribute to fewer absentees at routine visits for both mothers and children; furthermore, more children were breastfed and vaccinated compared with the control group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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