Pediatrics
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Effects of nurse home visiting on maternal and child functioning: age-9 follow-up of a randomized trial.
Our goal was to test the effect of prenatal and infancy home visits by nurses on mothers' fertility and children's functioning 7 years after the program ended at child age 2. ⋯ By child age 9, the program reduced women's rates of subsequent births, increased the intervals between the births of first and second children, increased the stability of their relationships with partners, facilitated children's academic adjustment to elementary school, and seems to have reduced childhood mortality from preventable causes.