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Table 1 The intervention package within the Salut Programme targeting parents and their children from foetal life to 1½ years of age

From: Sustainable practice change: Professionals' experiences with a multisectoral child health promotion programme in Sweden

Intervention

Antenatal care

Child health care

Dental service

Open pre-school

Motivational interviewing [32]

*

*

*

 

Collaboration between involved sectors

*

*

**

**

Parent meetings

*

*

**

**

Health counselling focusing on life habits, mental health, domestic violence1, parent-child attachment, psychosocial health and parent relationships

*

*

**

 

Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) screening [61]

 

*

  

Oral health screening at 12 months of age

 

**

  

"Mothers visit" at child age 8 months including screening for domestic violence

 

**

  

"Fathers visit" at child age 10 months with focus on fathers experiences of change in life situation

 

**

  

Questionnaires for health surveillance

**

**

**

 

Free dental health care visit for the pregnant woman and her partner

  

**

 

Activities to enhance early parent-child attachment, children's physical activity and linguistic development

 

*

 

*

Activities supporting parents to establish contacts with each other

   

*

Activities to promote healthy snacks/food and drinks

   

*

  1. * Strengthening or restructuring of existing interventions
  2. ** Newly developed interventions within the Salut Programme
  3. 1 Pregnant women and women recently given birth