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A study that was led by John Eckenrode, PhD, of Cornell University, has revealed that girls whose mothers had received nurse visits while pregnant or after giving birth are less likely to be arrested or convicted of a crime than girls whose mother didnt receive such services.

A Jan. 4 article by Nancy Welsh of MedPage Today provided the following details about the study, which was published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine:

• Among girls whose mothers received prenatal or infancy nurse visits, 10 percent had been arrested by age 19, compared with 30 percent of those in a comparison group.
• Nurse-visited girls also were less likely to be convicted of a crime (4 percent versus 20 percent), researchers reported in the January Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.
• The families in the study had been recruited between April 1978 and September 1980 when the mothers attended antepartum clinics or obstetricians' offices. Some 85 percent of the mothers were younger than 19 years, unmarried, or of low socioeconomic status.

Labels: at-risk youth, early_intervention

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