Miller Early Childhood Sustained Home-visiting (MECSH) trial: design, method and sample description
Open Access
- 29 December 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 8 (1), 424
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-424
Abstract
Home visiting programs comprising intensive and sustained visits by professionals (usually nurses) over the first two years of life show promise in promoting child health and family functioning, and ameliorating disadvantage. Australian evidence of the effectiveness of sustained nurse home visiting in early childhood is limited. This paper describes the method and cohort characteristics of the first Australian study of sustained home visiting commencing antenatally and continuing to child-age two years for at-risk mothers in a disadvantaged community (the Miller Early Childhood Sustained Home-visiting trial).This publication has 34 references indexed in Scilit:
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