Harriet Kitzman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5535537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harriet Kitzman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harriet |
| FAMILY NAME | Kitzman |
| SIGNATURE | KITZMAN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rochester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9470-7979 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gestational Weight Gain and Health Outcomes 18 Years Later in Urban Black Women
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…
Long-term Effects of Prenatal and Infancy Nurse Home Visitation on the Life Course of Youths: 19-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Trial
Objective To examine the effect of prenatal and infancy nurse home visitation on the life course development of 19-year-old youths whose mothers participated in the program. Design Randomized trial. Setting Semirural community in New York. Participants Three hundred ten youths from the 400 families enrolled in the Elmira Nurse-Family Partnership program. Intervention Families received a mean of 9 home visits (range, 0-16) during pregnancy and 23 …
Self-Efficacy as a Mediator Between Maternal Depression and Child Hospitalizations in Low-Income Urban Families
Mother–Child Interactions and the Associations with Child Healthcare Utilization in Low-Income Urban Families
The Effects of Stress on Birth Weight in Low-Income, Unmarried Black Women
Maternal Rules, Compliance, and Injuries to Preschool Children
This study examined the relationships among maternal rules, child compliance, and the injury experience of preschool children. To do so, 278 mothers of 3-year-old children were interviewed, mothers and children were videotaped, and medical records were reviewed. Results indicated that mothers' observed rule enforcement and children's committed compliance were inversely related to injury experience. The authors concluded that it is not the number …
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…
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…
New Opportunities for Integrated Child Health Systems: Results From the Multifaceted Pre-to-Three Program
Experts support integrated health systems for children to stimulate risk reduction and to promote child health.1 In 1998, California counties were required to develop integrated child service systems as part of tobacco surtax funds contained in Proposition 10, the Children and Families First Act. Counties have looked to the “Pre-to-Three” program started in 1996 in San Mateo County, Calif, as a potential model. Pre-to-Three was designed to promot…
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 …
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…
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…
Effect of Prenatal and Infancy Home Visitation by Nurses on Pregnancy Outcomes, Childhood Injuries, and Repeated Childbearing: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Context. —Interest in home-visitation services as a way of improving maternal and child outcomes has grown out of the favorable results of a trial in semirural New York. The findings have not been replicated in other populations. Objective. —To test the effect of prenatal and infancy home visits by nurses on pregnancy-induced hypertension, preterm delivery, and low birth weight; on children's injuries, immunizations, mental development, and behav…
Prenatal and early childhood home‐visitation program processes: A case illustration
This article describes a program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation that has been shown to be effective in improving the health of women and children in a series of randomized trials. The article summarizes the key elements of the program design and then presents a single case history to illustrate how the program elements are integrated in its clinical application. Particular attention is given to the interrelationships between the …
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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 …
Effect of Prenatal and Infancy Home Visitation by Nurses on Pregnancy Outcomes, Childhood Injuries, and Repeated Childbearing: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Context. —Interest in home-visitation services as a way of improving maternal and child outcomes has grown out of the favorable results of a trial in semirural New York. The findings have not been replicated in other populations. Objective. —To test the effect of prenatal and infancy home visits by nurses on pregnancy-induced hypertension, preterm delivery, and low birth weight; on children's injuries, immunizations, mental development, and behav…
Prenatal and early childhood home‐visitation program processes: A case illustration
This article describes a program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation that has been shown to be effective in improving the health of women and children in a series of randomized trials. The article summarizes the key elements of the program design and then presents a single case history to illustrate how the program elements are integrated in its clinical application. Particular attention is given to the interrelationships between the …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
New Opportunities for Integrated Child Health Systems: Results From the Multifaceted Pre-to-Three Program
Experts support integrated health systems for children to stimulate risk reduction and to promote child health.1 In 1998, California counties were required to develop integrated child service systems as part of tobacco surtax funds contained in Proposition 10, the Children and Families First Act. Counties have looked to the “Pre-to-Three” program started in 1996 in San Mateo County, Calif, as a potential model. Pre-to-Three was designed to promot…
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…
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 Effects of Stress on Birth Weight in Low-Income, Unmarried Black Women
Maternal Rules, Compliance, and Injuries to Preschool Children
This study examined the relationships among maternal rules, child compliance, and the injury experience of preschool children. To do so, 278 mothers of 3-year-old children were interviewed, mothers and children were videotaped, and medical records were reviewed. Results indicated that mothers' observed rule enforcement and children's committed compliance were inversely related to injury experience. The authors concluded that it is not the number …
Long-term Effects of Prenatal and Infancy Nurse Home Visitation on the Life Course of Youths: 19-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Trial
Objective To examine the effect of prenatal and infancy nurse home visitation on the life course development of 19-year-old youths whose mothers participated in the program. Design Randomized trial. Setting Semirural community in New York. Participants Three hundred ten youths from the 400 families enrolled in the Elmira Nurse-Family Partnership program. Intervention Families received a mean of 9 home visits (range, 0-16) during pregnancy and 23 …
Self-Efficacy as a Mediator Between Maternal Depression and Child Hospitalizations in Low-Income Urban Families
Mother–Child Interactions and the Associations with Child Healthcare Utilization in Low-Income Urban Families
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…
Gestational Weight Gain and Health Outcomes 18 Years Later in Urban Black Women
Medicine (23 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Nursing (12 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (8 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (7 works) · Pregnancy (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works)