Rourke Behav & family issues:
High risk infants/assess home visit need
● Assess home visit need
- Good evidence for home visiting by nurses during perinatal period through infancy for 1st time moms of low socioeconomic status/single parents/teenaged parents to prevent physical abuse and/or neglect
● Risk factors for physical abuse
○ Low SES
○ Young mom (<19)
○ Single parent family
○ Parental experience of own childhood physical abuse
○ Spousal violence
○ Lack of social support
○ Unplanned pregnancy/neg parental attitude towards preg
● Risk factors for sexual abuse
○ Living in fam w/o a natural parent
○ Growing up in fam w/ poor marital relations b/w parents
○ Presence of stepfather
○ Poor child-parent relationships
○ Unhappy fam life