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Home Visits Bring Multiple Benefits to American-Indian Teen Mothers

A home-visiting program directed at teenage American-Indian mothers reduced maternal risks and improved their children’s behavior but also helped the high-school-educated workers who carried out the intervention."American Indian adolescents...have the highest rates of teen pregnancy, substance use, suicide, and dropping out of school of any racial or ethnic group in the country," said lead researcher Allison Barlow, M.P.H., Ph.D. (photo above), associate director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Indian Health, and colleagues, in the study "Paraprofessional-Delivered Home-Visiting Intervention for American Indian Teen Mothers and Children..." published in AJP in...

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Published By: Psychiatric News - 5 days ago