Abstract
Background/rationale: The (mostly North American) effectiveness literature relating to pre-and postnatal nurse home visitation contains little information on client-satisfaction, despite its potential utility for shedding light on both basic service-acceptability and the processes underlying effectiveness.Aim(s): To longitudinally compare (UK-based) user-perceptions of an intensive home-visiting intervention with those of women receiving generic postnatal services.Methods: Quasi-experimental cohort study of 637 families living in selected disadvantaged communities in Glasgow, Scotland and with an index child born between mid-2001 and 2002. User-views were collected from a sub-sample of 287 (164 intervention, 123 comparison) families who completed three survey-based assessments over the first 18-months of the child’s life. Three key measures were used: at baseline, 6- and 18-month assessments, Satisfaction with levels of health visitor support; and Attitudes to health visitors (concentrating on trust, quality of communication and utility of advice). At 18-months only: Comparison of the service relative to initial expectations.Results: Repeated measures ANOVA revealed a significant effect of both group (p=0.047) and assessment occasion (p
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - Aug 2005 |