Browsing by Author "O'Donnell, Karen"
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A Comparison of the Wellbeing of Orphans and Abandoned Children Ages 6-12 in Institutional and Community-Based Care Settings in 5 Less Wealthy Nations
(2009)Background: Leaders are struggling to care for the estimated 143,000,000 orphans and millions more abandoned children worldwide. Global policy makers are advocating that institution-living orphans and abandoned children ... -
Can typical US home visits affect infant attachment? Preliminary findings from a randomized trial of Healthy Families Durham.
(Attach Hum Dev, 2017-12)US government-funded early home visiting services are expanding significantly. The most widely implemented home visiting models target at-risk new mothers and their infants. Such home visiting programs typically aim to support ... -
Child work and labour among orphaned and abandoned children in five low and middle income countries.
(BMC Int Health Hum Rights, 2011-01-13)BACKGROUND: The care and protection of the estimated 143,000,000 orphaned and abandoned children (OAC) worldwide is of great importance to global policy makers and child service providers in low and middle income countries ... -
Civic engagement among orphans and non-orphans in five low- and middle-income countries.
(Global Health, 2016-10-11)BACKGROUND: Communities and nations seeking to foster social responsibility in their youth are interested in understanding factors that predict and promote youth involvement in public activities. Orphans and separated children ... -
Correlates of poor health among orphans and abandoned children in less wealthy countries: the importance of caregiver health.
(PLoS One, 2012)BACKGROUND: More than 153 million children worldwide have been orphaned by the loss of one or both parents, and millions more have been abandoned. We investigated relationships between the health of orphaned and abandoned ... -
Effect of a Community Agency-Administered Nurse Home Visitation Program on Program Use and Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
(JAMA network open, 2019-11)Importance:Postnatal home visitation to support parenting and infant healthy development is becoming increasingly common based on university efficacy studies, but effectiveness when disseminated by communities is not clear. ... -
Implementation and randomized controlled trial evaluation of universal postnatal nurse home visiting.
(Am J Public Health, 2014-02)OBJECTIVES: We evaluated whether a brief, universal, postnatal nurse home-visiting intervention can be implemented with high penetration and fidelity, prevent emergency health care services, and promote positive parenting ... -
Moving Beyond Program to Population Impact: Toward a Universal Early Childhood System of Care
(Journal of Family Theory and Review, 2018-01-01)© 2018 National Council on Family Relations Families have clearly benefited from increased availability of evidence-based intervention, including home-visiting models and increased federal funding for programs benefiting ... -
Prevalence and predictors of HIV-related stigma among institutional- and community-based caregivers of orphans and vulnerable children living in five less-wealthy countries.
(BMC Public Health, 2010-08-19)BACKGROUND: In the face of the HIV/AIDS epidemic that has contributed to the dramatic increase in orphans and abandoned children (OAC) worldwide, caregiver attitudes about HIV, and HIV-related stigma, are two attributes ... -
Randomized controlled trial of universal postnatal nurse home visiting: impact on emergency care.
(Pediatrics, 2013-11)BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Although nurse home visiting has proven efficacious with small samples, scaling up to community populations with diverse families has not yet proven effective. The Durham Connects program was developed ... -
Toward Population Impact from Home Visiting.
(Zero Three, 2013-01-01)Although some home-visiting programs have proven effective with the families they serve, no program has yet demonstrated an impact at the population level. We describe the Durham Connects (DC) initiative, which aims to achieve ...
