David L Olds
Biographic Data
| ID | 5535535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David L Olds |
| GIVEN NAMES | David L |
| FAMILY NAME | Olds |
| SIGNATURE | OLDS D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Health |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A qualitative study of effective collaboration among nurse home visitors, healthcare providers and community support services in the United States
Collaboration across sectors is needed to improve community health, but little is known about collaborative activities among public health prevention programs. Using the Nurse-Family Partnership® (NFP) home visiting program as context, this qualitative study aimed to describe effective collaboration among nurse home visitors, healthcare providers and community support services to serve families experiencing social and economic adversities. We use…
Risk assessment practices among home visiting nurses and child protection caseworkers in Colorado, United States: A qualitative investigation
Nurses and caseworkers engage in assessments with the families they serve. Nurse home visitors from Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) improve maternal-child health outcomes with first-time low-income mothers through care, education and support. In the United States, Child Protective Services (CPS) are state-level governmental agencies that protect children, including responding to reports of child maltreatment. This paper aimed to characterise simil…
Improving Standards for Evidence‐Based Policy
Randomized Controlled Trial of Home‐Based Hormonal Contraceptive Dispensing for Women At Risk of Unintended Pregnancy
Home dispensing of hormonal contraceptives may improve women's postpartum contraceptive use and should be explored as an intervention in communities where contraceptives are not easily accessible
Father Attendance in Nurse Home Visitation: Father Attendance in Nurse Home Visitation
Our aim was to examine the rates and predictors of father attendance at nurse home visits in replication sites of the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP). Early childhood programs can facilitate father involvement in the lives of their children, but program improvements require an understanding of factors that predict father involvement. The sample consisted of 29,109 low-income, first-time mothers who received services from 694 nurses from 80 sites. …
Patterns of Visit Attendance in the Nurse–Family Partnership Program
Objectives. We examined visit attendance patterns in the Memphis trial of the Nurse–Family Partnership and associations between these patterns and family characteristics, outcomes, and treatment–control differences in outcomes. Methods. We employed repeated measures latent class analysis to identify attendance patterns among the 228 mothers assigned to receive home nurse visits during pregnancy and until the child was aged 2 years, associated bac…
Improving the Life Chances of Vulnerable Children and Families with Prenatal and Infancy Support of Parents: The Nurse-Family Partnership
Pregnancy and the early years of the child's life offer an opportune time to prevent a host of adverse maternal and child outcomes that are important in their own right, but that also have significant implications for the development of criminal behavior. This paper summarizes a three-decade program of research that has attempted to improve the health and development of mothers and infants and their future life prospects with prenatal and infancy…
Un atelier de Boulez: Visite guidée de Mémoriale
Lors de son passage à Toronto, Pierre Boulez a consacré un atelier de deux heures à Mémoriale, avec les musiciens de New Music Concerts. Dans ce document particulièrement attentif aux moindres détails, l’auteur fait revivre la manière dont Boulez entreprend une répétition, amenant en particulier les musiciens à prendre conscience de la structure de la pièce
De Toronto: La Diversité Des Styles
Le regard « étranger » est parfois celui qui permet, par comparaison, de cerner la spécificité d’une pratique en un lieu donné. Ces deux textes témoignent de la perception qu’on se fait, au Canada anglais et dans le Groupe de musique expérimentale de Bourges, de la richesse et de la variété de la production électroacoustique québécoise
Programs for parents of infants and toddlers: Recent evidence from randomized trials
Programs for parents of young children hold considerable promise for improving children's life‐course trajectories and for reducing health and development problems and associated costs to government and society. To date, this promise has not been achieved. Fulfilling the potential of parenting interventions will require substantial improvements in current practice for developing and testing such programs. Intervention development will be improved…
The nurse–family partnership: An evidence‐based preventive intervention
Pregnancy and the early years of the child's life offer an opportune time to prevent a host of adverse maternal, child, and family outcomes that are important in their own right, but that also reflect biological, behavioral, and social substrates in the child and family that affect family formation and future life trajectories. This article summarizes a 27‐year program of research that has attempted to improve early maternal and child health and …
Effects of Nurse Home-Visiting on Maternal Life Course and Child Development: Age 6 Follow-Up Results of a Randomized Trial
Objective. To test, with an urban, primarily black sample, the effects of prenatal and infancy home visits by nurses on mothers' fertility and economic self-sufficiency and the academic and behavioral adjustment of their children as the children finished kindergarten, near their sixth birthday. Methods. We conducted a randomized, controlled trial of a program of prenatal and infancy home-visiting in a public system of obstetric and pediatric care…
Effects of Home Visits by Paraprofessionals and by Nurses: Age 4 Follow-Up Results of a Randomized Trial
Objective. To examine the effects of prenatal and infancy home visiting by paraprofessionals and by nurses from child age 2 through age 4 years. Methods. We conducted, in public and private care settings in Denver, Colorado, a randomized, controlled trial with 3 arms, ie, control, paraprofessional visits, and nurse visits. Home visits were provided from pregnancy through child age 2 years. We invited 1178 consecutive, low-income, pregnant women w…
Prenatal and Infancy Home Visiting by Nurses: From Randomized Trials to Community Replication
Home Visiting by Paraprofessionals and by Nurses: A Randomized, Controlled Trial
Objective. To examine the effectiveness of home visiting by paraprofessionals and by nurses as separate means of improving maternal and child health when both types of visitors are trained in a program model that has demonstrated effectiveness when delivered by nurses. Methods. A randomized, controlled trial was conducted in public- and private-care settings in Denver, Colorado. One thousand one hundred seventy-eight consecutive pregnant women wi…
Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect With a Program of Nurse Home Visitation: The Limiting Effects of Domestic Violence
CONTEXT: Home visitation to families with young children has been promoted as an effective way to prevent child maltreatment, but few studies have examined the conditions under which such programs meet this goal. OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether the presence of domestic violence limits the effects of nurse home visitation interventions in reducing substantiated reports of child abuse and neglect. DESIGN: Fifteen-year follow-up study of a randomi…
Prenatal and Infancy Home Visitation by Nurses: Recent Findings
This article describes a 20-year program of research on the Nurse Home Visitation Program, a model in which nurses visit mothers beginning during pregnancy and continuing through their children's second birthdays to improve pregnancy outcomes, to promote children's health and development, and to strengthen families' economic self-sufficiency. The results of two randomized trials (one in Elmira, New York, and the second in Memphis, Tennessee) are …
Differences in program implementation between nurses and paraprofessionals providing home visits during pregnancy and infancy: A randomized trial
OBJECTIVES: This study examined differences between nurses and paraprofessionals in implementation of a home visiting program for low-income, first-time parents during pregnancy and the first 2 years of the child's life. METHODS: Mothers were randomly assigned to either a nurse-visited (n = 236) or a paraprofessional-visited (n = 244) condition. Nurse- and paraprofessional-visited families were compared on number and length of visits, topics cove…
Long-term Effects of Nurse Home Visitation on Children's Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: 15-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Controlled Trial
CONTEXT: A program of home visitation by nurses has been shown to affect the rates of maternal welfare dependence, criminality, problems due to use of substances, and child abuse and neglect. However, the long-term effects of this program on children's antisocial behavior have not been examined. OBJECTIVE: To examine the long-term effects of a program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation by nurses on children's antisocial behavior. DES…
Intervention processes as predictors of outcomes in a preventive home-visitation program
Although much preventive intervention research has been focused on outcome evaluation, an equally important topic is the process by which an intervention brings about these outcomes. In this investigation, intervention process is described and related to caregiving outcomes in a program of nurse home visitation for first-time mothers and their infants (N × 228) living in Memphis, Tennessee. Results show that, although previous investigation has d…
Maternal psychological characteristics as influences on home visitation contact
The current investigation examines how women's psychological characteristics influence their use of home visitation services in programs for mothers and infants in Elmira, New York, and Memphis, Tennessee. Subjects were 99 White (in Elmira) and 207 predominantly African American (in Memphis) first-time mothers. They were recruited during pregnancy and were provided home visitation services by public health nurses until the child's second birthday…
Intervention processes as predictors of outcomes in a preventive home‐visitation program
Although much preventive intervention research has been focused on outcome evaluation, an equally important topic is the process by which an intervention brings about these outcomes. In this investigation, intervention process is described and related to caregiving outcomes in a program of nurse home visitation for first-time mothers and their infants (N × 228) living in Memphis, Tennessee. Results show that, although previous investigation has d…
Family context as a moderator of program effects in prenatal and early childhood home visitation
Typically research addressing minority family issues focuses on broad cultural differences between majority and minority families, and ignores or minimizes the diversity among families in the minority population. In this article, we address this diversity, specifically the influence of household configuration on the quality of the caregiving environment, and the ability of a nurse home-visitation program for first-time mothers and their infants t…
Reducing risks for antisocial behavior with a program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation
Risk factors for conduct disorder, antisocial behavior, and violence are reviewed and related to the known effects of a program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation. The program reduced three domains of risk for the development of problem behavior. The effects include: (a) a reduction in maternal substance abuse during pregnancy; (b) a reduction in child maltreatment; and (c) a reduction in family size, closely spaced pregnancies, and …
Increasing the policy and program relevance of results from randomized trials of home visitation
In the present article, we describe the efforts we have made to increase the relevance of findings from our randomized trials of prenatal and early childhood home visitation for the formulation of public policies and programs for pregnant women and parents of young children. We then consider the reasons that findings from well-conducted research often fail to influence policies and programs. Some factors influencing policymaking are especially no…
The nurse–family partnership: An evidence‐based preventive intervention
Pregnancy and the early years of the child's life offer an opportune time to prevent a host of adverse maternal, child, and family outcomes that are important in their own right, but that also reflect biological, behavioral, and social substrates in the child and family that affect family formation and future life trajectories. This article summarizes a 27‐year program of research that has attempted to improve early maternal and child health and …
Prenatal and Infancy Home Visitation by Nurses: Recent Findings
This article describes a 20-year program of research on the Nurse Home Visitation Program, a model in which nurses visit mothers beginning during pregnancy and continuing through their children's second birthdays to improve pregnancy outcomes, to promote children's health and development, and to strengthen families' economic self-sufficiency. The results of two randomized trials (one in Elmira, New York, and the second in Memphis, Tennessee) are …
Improving the life-course development of socially disadvantaged mothers: A randomized trial of nurse home visitation
We evaluated a comprehensive program of prenatal and postpartum nurse home visitation for socially disadvantaged women bearing first children. Eighty-five per cent of the participating women were either teenagers (less than 19 years at registration), unmarried, or of low socioeconomic status. Women were randomly assigned to either nurse home visitation or comparison services (free transportation for prenatal and well-child care and/or sensory and…
Differences in program implementation between nurses and paraprofessionals providing home visits during pregnancy and infancy: A randomized trial
OBJECTIVES: This study examined differences between nurses and paraprofessionals in implementation of a home visiting program for low-income, first-time parents during pregnancy and the first 2 years of the child's life. METHODS: Mothers were randomly assigned to either a nurse-visited (n = 236) or a paraprofessional-visited (n = 244) condition. Nurse- and paraprofessional-visited families were compared on number and length of visits, topics cove…
Patterns of Visit Attendance in the Nurse–Family Partnership Program
Objectives. We examined visit attendance patterns in the Memphis trial of the Nurse–Family Partnership and associations between these patterns and family characteristics, outcomes, and treatment–control differences in outcomes. Methods. We employed repeated measures latent class analysis to identify attendance patterns among the 228 mothers assigned to receive home nurse visits during pregnancy and until the child was aged 2 years, associated bac…
A qualitative study of effective collaboration among nurse home visitors, healthcare providers and community support services in the United States
Collaboration across sectors is needed to improve community health, but little is known about collaborative activities among public health prevention programs. Using the Nurse-Family Partnership® (NFP) home visiting program as context, this qualitative study aimed to describe effective collaboration among nurse home visitors, healthcare providers and community support services to serve families experiencing social and economic adversities. We use…
Risk assessment practices among home visiting nurses and child protection caseworkers in Colorado, United States: A qualitative investigation
Nurses and caseworkers engage in assessments with the families they serve. Nurse home visitors from Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) improve maternal-child health outcomes with first-time low-income mothers through care, education and support. In the United States, Child Protective Services (CPS) are state-level governmental agencies that protect children, including responding to reports of child maltreatment. This paper aimed to characterise simil…
Improving Standards for Evidence‐Based Policy
Father Attendance in Nurse Home Visitation: Father Attendance in Nurse Home Visitation
Our aim was to examine the rates and predictors of father attendance at nurse home visits in replication sites of the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP). Early childhood programs can facilitate father involvement in the lives of their children, but program improvements require an understanding of factors that predict father involvement. The sample consisted of 29,109 low-income, first-time mothers who received services from 694 nurses from 80 sites. …
Starting Right: How America Neglects Its Youngest Children and What We Can Do about It . Sheila Kamerman , Alfred Kahn
Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect: A Randomized Trial of Nurse Home Visitation
A program of prenatal and infancy home visitation by nurses was tested as a method of preventing a wide range of health and developmental problems in children born to primiparas who were either teenagers, unmarried, or of low socioeconomic status. Among the women at highest risk for care-giving dysfunction, those who were visited by a nurse had fewer instances of verified child abuse and neglect during the first 2 years of their children's lives …
Improving the Delivery of Prenatal Care and Outcomes of Pregnancy: A Randomized Trial of Nurse Home Visitation
We evaluated a comprehensive program of prenatal and postpartum nurse home visitation. The program was designed to prevent a wide range of health and developmental problems in children born to primiparous women who were either teenagers, unmarried, or of low socioeconomic status. During pregnancy, women who were visited by nurses, compared with women randomly assigned to comparison groups, became aware of more community services; attended childbi…
Improving the life-course development of socially disadvantaged mothers: A randomized trial of nurse home visitation
We evaluated a comprehensive program of prenatal and postpartum nurse home visitation for socially disadvantaged women bearing first children. Eighty-five per cent of the participating women were either teenagers (less than 19 years at registration), unmarried, or of low socioeconomic status. Women were randomly assigned to either nurse home visitation or comparison services (free transportation for prenatal and well-child care and/or sensory and…
Effect of Prenatal and Infancy Nurse Home Visitation on Government Spending
A completed series of reports on a randomized trial (N = 400) indicated that, in contrast to comparison services, prenatal and infancy nurse home visitation improved a wide range of maternal and child health outcomes among poor, unmarried, and teenaged women bearing first children in a semirural county in upstate New York. Eighty-nine percent of the sample was white, and all analyses focused on this group. In this article, an analysis of the net …
Starting Right: How America Neglects Its Youngest Children and What We Can Do about It . Sheila Kamerman , Alfred Kahn
Long-term Effects of Home Visitation on Maternal Life Course and Child Abuse and Neglect: Fifteen-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Trial
CONTEXT: Home-visitation services have been promoted as a means of improving maternal and child health and functioning. However, long-term effects have not been examined. OBJECTIVE: To examine the long-term effects of a program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation by nurses on women's life course and child abuse and neglect. DESIGN: Randomized trial. SETTING: Semirural community in New York. PARTICIPANTS: Of 400 consecutive pregnant wo…
Commentaries
Theoretical foundations of a program of home visitation for pregnant women and parents of young children
This article reviews the theoretical foundations of a program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation that has been tested and refined over the past two decades while it was examined in a series of three randomized trials. It describes the role that theories of self-efficacy, human attachment, and human ecology have played in shaping the content and clinical methods of the program. The program was designed to improve: (1) the outcomes of …
Challenges experienced by home visitors: A qualitative study of program implementation
Challenges experienced by home visitors: A qualitative study of program implementation
While randomized trials that test the effectiveness of different types of home-visitation have increased our understanding of the structural features of programs that promote positive outcomes, we know much less about program processes necessary to achieve success. In spite of increasing emphasis on the importance of adapting programs to suit the needs and characteristics of populations served (Yutrzenka, 1995), little evidence exists about how s…
The evolution of a program of research on prenatal and early childhood home visitation: Special issue introduction
In this and a following issue of the Journal of Community Psychology, we have been given a rare opportunity to elaborate the theoretical, clinical, and empirical underpinnings of a program of research that we and our colleagues have conducted over the past 20 years. The program of research has examined the efficacy of a program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation as a means of improving the outcomes of pregnancy, the care that parents…
Long-term Effects of Nurse Home Visitation on Children's Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: 15-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Controlled Trial
CONTEXT: A program of home visitation by nurses has been shown to affect the rates of maternal welfare dependence, criminality, problems due to use of substances, and child abuse and neglect. However, the long-term effects of this program on children's antisocial behavior have not been examined. OBJECTIVE: To examine the long-term effects of a program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation by nurses on children's antisocial behavior. DES…
Intervention processes as predictors of outcomes in a preventive home-visitation program
Although much preventive intervention research has been focused on outcome evaluation, an equally important topic is the process by which an intervention brings about these outcomes. In this investigation, intervention process is described and related to caregiving outcomes in a program of nurse home visitation for first-time mothers and their infants (N × 228) living in Memphis, Tennessee. Results show that, although previous investigation has d…
Maternal psychological characteristics as influences on home visitation contact
The current investigation examines how women's psychological characteristics influence their use of home visitation services in programs for mothers and infants in Elmira, New York, and Memphis, Tennessee. Subjects were 99 White (in Elmira) and 207 predominantly African American (in Memphis) first-time mothers. They were recruited during pregnancy and were provided home visitation services by public health nurses until the child's second birthday…
Intervention processes as predictors of outcomes in a preventive home‐visitation program
Although much preventive intervention research has been focused on outcome evaluation, an equally important topic is the process by which an intervention brings about these outcomes. In this investigation, intervention process is described and related to caregiving outcomes in a program of nurse home visitation for first-time mothers and their infants (N × 228) living in Memphis, Tennessee. Results show that, although previous investigation has d…
Family context as a moderator of program effects in prenatal and early childhood home visitation
Typically research addressing minority family issues focuses on broad cultural differences between majority and minority families, and ignores or minimizes the diversity among families in the minority population. In this article, we address this diversity, specifically the influence of household configuration on the quality of the caregiving environment, and the ability of a nurse home-visitation program for first-time mothers and their infants t…
Reducing risks for antisocial behavior with a program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation
Risk factors for conduct disorder, antisocial behavior, and violence are reviewed and related to the known effects of a program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation. The program reduced three domains of risk for the development of problem behavior. The effects include: (a) a reduction in maternal substance abuse during pregnancy; (b) a reduction in child maltreatment; and (c) a reduction in family size, closely spaced pregnancies, and …
Increasing the policy and program relevance of results from randomized trials of home visitation
In the present article, we describe the efforts we have made to increase the relevance of findings from our randomized trials of prenatal and early childhood home visitation for the formulation of public policies and programs for pregnant women and parents of young children. We then consider the reasons that findings from well-conducted research often fail to influence policies and programs. Some factors influencing policymaking are especially no…
The promise of home visitation: Results of two randomized trials
Two randomized trials of prenatal and infancy home visitation conducted in semirural and urban areas are described and their results presented. The studies provide consistent findings that nurse home visitors can improve women's health related behaviors, qualities of infant caregiving, and can help women improve their own life-course development (reflected in behaviors such as rates of subsequent pregnancies and births, and receipt of welfare). T…
Findings from a program of research on prenatal and early childhood home visitation: Special issue introduction
Prenatal and Infancy Home Visitation by Nurses: Recent Findings
This article describes a 20-year program of research on the Nurse Home Visitation Program, a model in which nurses visit mothers beginning during pregnancy and continuing through their children's second birthdays to improve pregnancy outcomes, to promote children's health and development, and to strengthen families' economic self-sufficiency. The results of two randomized trials (one in Elmira, New York, and the second in Memphis, Tennessee) are …
Differences in program implementation between nurses and paraprofessionals providing home visits during pregnancy and infancy: A randomized trial
OBJECTIVES: This study examined differences between nurses and paraprofessionals in implementation of a home visiting program for low-income, first-time parents during pregnancy and the first 2 years of the child's life. METHODS: Mothers were randomly assigned to either a nurse-visited (n = 236) or a paraprofessional-visited (n = 244) condition. Nurse- and paraprofessional-visited families were compared on number and length of visits, topics cove…
Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect With a Program of Nurse Home Visitation: The Limiting Effects of Domestic Violence
CONTEXT: Home visitation to families with young children has been promoted as an effective way to prevent child maltreatment, but few studies have examined the conditions under which such programs meet this goal. OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether the presence of domestic violence limits the effects of nurse home visitation interventions in reducing substantiated reports of child abuse and neglect. DESIGN: Fifteen-year follow-up study of a randomi…
Prenatal and Infancy Home Visiting by Nurses: From Randomized Trials to Community Replication
Home Visiting by Paraprofessionals and by Nurses: A Randomized, Controlled Trial
Objective. To examine the effectiveness of home visiting by paraprofessionals and by nurses as separate means of improving maternal and child health when both types of visitors are trained in a program model that has demonstrated effectiveness when delivered by nurses. Methods. A randomized, controlled trial was conducted in public- and private-care settings in Denver, Colorado. One thousand one hundred seventy-eight consecutive pregnant women wi…
Medicine (30 works) · Psychology (22 works) · Nursing (18 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (16 works) · Family medicine (16 works) · Pregnancy (12 works) · Randomized controlled trial (12 works) · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (11 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (10 works) · Environmental health (10 works)