Author, Year | Country | Study design | Participants | Frequency of home visits, intervention duration, and providers |
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Quantitative studies | ||||
Kemp et al., 2019 [8] | Australia | Randomised controlled trial | N = 352 Women < 37 weeks gestation, having sufficient English proficiency, having two or more of ten sociodemographic risk factors by screening | Intended frequency: Antenatal—fortnightly, birth to 6 weeks—weekly, 1.5 to 3 months—fortnightly, 6 months to 2 years—bi-monthly Duration: antenatal to 2 years Providers: nurses |
Goldfeld et al., 2018 [48] | Australia | Randomised controlled trial | N = 722 (Intervention = 363, Control = 359) Women < 37 weeks gestation, having sufficient English proficiency, having two or more of ten sociodemographic risk factors | Intended frequency: Antenatal—fortnightly, birth to 6 weeks—weekly, 1.5 to 3 months—fortnightly, 6 months to 2 years—bi-monthly Duration: antenatal to 2 years Providers: nurses |
Fraser et al., 2000 [49] | Australia | Randomised controlled trial | N = 181(Intervention = 90, Comparison = 91) Mothers at risks (one of the risk of sole parent, ambivalence, domestic violence, childhood abuse, OR three or more of eight sociodemographic risks) | Intended frequency: Weekly visits until the infant was 6 weeks old, fortnightly visit until the infant was 3 months old, then monthly visit until the age of 12 months Duration: after birth to 1 year Providers: nurses |
Armstrong et al., 1999 [50] | Australia | Randomised controlled trial | N = 181(Intervention = 90, Comparison = 91) Mothers at risks (one of the risk of sole parent, ambivalence, domestic violence, childhood abuse, OR three or more of eight sociodemographic risks) | Intended frequency: Weekly visits from the primary visiting nurse until the child age 6 weeks, fortnightly visit until the child age 3 months, monthly visit until the child age 12 months Duration: after birth to 1 year Providers: nurses |
Armstrong et al., 2000 [51] | Australia | Randomised controlled trial | N = 160(Intervention = 80, Comparison = 80) Mothers at risks (one of the risk of sole parent, ambivalence, domestic violence, childhood abuse, OR three or more of eight sociodemographic risks) | Intended frequency: Weekly visits from the primary visiting nurse until the child age 6 weeks, fortnightly visit until the child age 3 months, monthly visit until the child age 12 months Duration: after birth to 1 year Providers: nurses |
Christie & Bunting, 2011 [52] | Ireland | Randomised controlled trial | N = 295 (Intervention = 136, Control = 159) First-time low risk mothers | Intended frequency: Six home visits from 10 – 14 days to 8 weeks postpartum (weekly home visit). Families were followed-up at 7 months postpartum Duration: after birth to 8 weeks Providers: nurses |
Bashour et al., 2008 [53] | Syria | Randomised controlled trial | N = 876 3 groups: 4 postnatal visits (n = 285), one visit (n = 294), or no visit (n = 297) | Intended frequency: One or four postnatal visits on day 3 (for one visit) and day 1, 3, 7, and 30 after childbirth (for four visits) Providers: midwives |
Brand & Jungmann, 2014 [34] | Germany | Cross-sectional study | N = 434 Low-income, first-time mothers | Intended frequency: Weekly in the first four weeks of program participation, bi-weekly after that until child ages 2 years Duration: Antenatal period (12–28 weeks pregnant) to child ages 2 years Providers: midwives |
Brand & Jungmann, 2012 [54] | Germany | Quasi‐experimental study | N = 430 Low-income, first-time mothers | Intended frequency: Weekly in the first four weeks of program participation, bi-weekly after that until child ages 2 years Duration: Antenatal period (12–28 weeks pregnant) to child ages 2 years Providers: midwives |
Qualitative studies | ||||
Zapart et al., 2016 [55] | Australia | Qualitative descriptive study | N = 36 | Reported frequency: On average, participants received 20 home visits of the program’s 25 scheduled visits Duration: Antenatal to 104 weeks after birth Providers: nurses |
DeMay, 2003 [56] | USA | Qualitative study (content analysis) | N = 62, Intervention group = 22, current practice group = 40 | Reported frequency: Intervention group received almost twice the average number of visits per year (8 and 4.8 respectively) and twice the average amount of time per visit (120 and 60 min, respectively) as current practice group clients Duration: no specific description Providers: nurses |
Landy et al., 2012 [57] | Canada | Qualitative case study | N = 18 Low income, young (< = 21 years), and first-time mothers | Reported frequency: biweekly except during the first month of the intervention and the first postpartum month, when nurses visit weekly Duration: Before 29 weeks gestation until the child age 1 year Providers: nurses |
Byrd, 1998 [58] | USA | Qualitative descriptive study | N = 11 (One nurse and 10 clients) | Reported frequency: every one to two weeks Duration: no specific description, but data collection took 8 months Providers: nurse |