New Families- Innovation and Development of the Child Health Services in Oslo (NF)

VID Specialized University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Primary Prevention

Treatments: Other: Supportive home visits to new families; Other: Treatment as usual

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04162626

2018/1378

Details and patient eligibility

About

The New Families (NF) program will improve quality of existing services, secure personalised service and early intervention in Child Health Service (CHS) in Oslo. The study will measure the effects of a primary prevention family-centered healthcare intervention in Norwegian CHS.

Full description

The New Families (NF) program will improve quality of existing services, secure personalised service and early intervention in Child Health Service (CHS) in Oslo. The study will: 1) Measure the effects of a primary prevention family-centered healthcare intervention in Norwegian CHS, 2) Create case studies from CHS praxis advancing Public Health Nurse (PHN) training and education in Oslo and Norway, 3) Establish a model for how to include users in service development in CHS, 4) Enhance the knowledge base of the PHN practice in CHS Anticipated results: The project will bolster the knowledge base for education and professional practices within the service by strengthen the existing research within the field. The anticipated results of the project are that the intervention will increase maternal and parental self-efficacy, reduce the risk of postpartum depression among first-time mothers, reduce parental stress, increase social support, improve maternal attachment, improve generic health status, improve partner relationship and improve child development compared with usual care. The intervention research in this project can be a future model for service improvement in the CHS.

Enrollment: 428 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• First time parents living in the chosen districts

Exclusion criteria

• All other parents

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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428 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Supportive home visits by public health nurses to new parents from 28 weeks in pregnancy until the child is two years.

Treatment:

Other: Supportive home visits to new families

Control

Other group

Description:

Follow up as usual at the Child health center

Treatment:

Other: Treatment as usual