Does Intensive IPV Intervention for First-Time Mothers Improve Outcomes?

The Nurse-Family Partnership is a U.S. evidence-based program that provides home visits by RNs to disadvantaged first-time mothers from before birth to the child's second birthday. Although this intervention decreases child abuse, findings conflict regarding its ability to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) against the mothers. To examine whether adding an intensive IPV component would improve maternal quality of life, investigators randomized 15 Partnership sites to provide usual visit procedures (control; basic queries about and referrals for IPV) or visits by nurses with intensive training in IPV assessment and specific interventions. Among the 263 control women and 229 intervention women, evaluations at baseline (prenatally) and eve…