ArticleScandinavian journal of primary health care2023
Extended prenatal and postnatal home visits in a vulnerable area in Sweden-a pilot study.
Article in Scandinavian journal of primary health care, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Caring for young minds: general practitioners' self-assessed competence in child and adolescent psychiatry.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2026Article
- Core Components of Effective Home Visiting Programmes and Parenting Interventions Delivered by Nurses and Midwives-A Scoping Review.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Article
- Evaluation of the Implementation of Prenatal Home Visits in Youth Healthcare in the Netherlands: A Mixed Methods Study.Journal of advanced nursing · 2025Article
- Dyadic Care Interventions and Outcomes for Mothers and Their Infants: A Scoping Review.Pediatrics · 2025Article
- A safe bridge - parents' and staff's experiences of an antenatal visit introducing a home visiting program in disadvantaged areas.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Collaborative extended home-visits as a key to facilitating early support within the frame of a family centre in Sweden.BMC health services research · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issuedCorrection.2023
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
objectiveDespite 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.
designLongitudinal, prospective study and register study from medical records.
settingA vulnerable rural area in Sweden.
interventionA 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 15 months, 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 (
main outcome measuresThe proportion participating in visits to the child and maternal healthcare services, children being breastfed and receiving childhood vaccinations.
resultsThere 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%).
conclusionSupplementing 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.
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