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ArticleBMJ open2019

Evaluation protocol to assess maternal and child health outcomes using administrative data: a community health worker home visiting programme.

Samantha Sabo, Matthew Butler, Kelly McCue, Patrick Wightman, Vern Pilling, Martín Celaya, Sara Rumann

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Article in BMJ open, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Samantha SaboCenter for Health Equity Research, College of Health and Human Services, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA samantha.sabo@nau.edu.
Matthew ButlerDepartment of Economics, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
Kelly McCueCenter for Health Equity Research, College of Health and Human Services, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8383-0338
Patrick WightmanCenter for Population Science and Discovery, Community, Environment and Policy Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Vern PillingCenter for Biomedical Informatics and Biostatistics, Health Sciences Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Martín CelayaBureau of Women's and Children's Health, Arizona Department of Health Services, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
Sara RumannBureau of Women's and Children's Health, Arizona Department of Health Services, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
Arizona Department of Health Services · USNorthern Arizona University · USUniversity of Arizona · USBrigham Young University · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionEmerging evidence suggests community health workers (CHWs) delivering preventive maternal and child health (MCH) interventions through home visiting improve several important health outcomes, including initiation of prenatal care, healthy birth weight and uptake of childhood immunisations. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: The Arizona Health Start Program is a behavioral-based home visiting intervention, which uses CHWs to improve MCH outcomes through health education, referral support, and advocacy services for at-risk pregnant and postpartum women with children up to 2 years of age. We aim to test our central hypothesis that mothers and children exposed to this intervention will experience positive health outcomes in the areas of (1) newborn health; (2) maternal health and healthcare utilisation; and (3) child health and development. This paper outlines our protocol to retrospectively evaluate Health Start Program administrative data from 2006 to 2015, equaling 15 576 enrollees. We will use propensity score matching to generate a statistically similar control group. Our analytic sample size is sufficient to detect meaningful programme effects from low-frequency events, including preterm births, low and very low birth weights, maternal morbidity, and differences in immunisation and hospitalisation rates. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: This work is supported through an inter-agency contract from the Arizona Department of Health Services and is approved by the University of Arizona Research Institutional Review Board (Protocol 1701128802, approved 25 January 2017). Evaluation of the three proposed outcome areas will be completed by June 2020.

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Health EducationOutcome Assessment, Health CareArizonaCommunity Health WorkersFemaleHouse CallsHumansInfantInfant, NewbornMaternal-Child Health ServicesPostnatal CarePregnancyPrenatal CarePreventive Health ServicesProgram EvaluationResearch Designcommunity health workerhome visitingmaternal and child healthpropensity score matching

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PMID31826891
PMCPMC6924704
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