NCT04162626

New Families- Innovation and Development of the Child Health Services in Oslo

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 428 (actual)
• Sponsor: VID Specialized University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The New Families (NF) program will improve quality of existing services, secure personalised service and early intervention in Child Health Service (CHS) in Oslo. The study will measure the effects of a primary prevention family-centered healthcare intervention in Norwegian CHS.

Detailed description

The New Families (NF) program will improve quality of existing services, secure personalised service and early intervention in Child Health Service (CHS) in Oslo. The study will: 1) Measure the effects of a primary prevention family-centered healthcare intervention in Norwegian CHS, 2) Create case studies from CHS praxis advancing Public Health Nurse (PHN) training and education in Oslo and Norway, 3) Establish a model for how to include users in service development in CHS, 4) Enhance the knowledge base of the PHN practice in CHS Anticipated results: The project will bolster the knowledge base for education and professional practices within the service by strengthen the existing research within the field. The anticipated results of the project are that the intervention will increase maternal and parental self-efficacy, reduce the risk of postpartum depression among first-time mothers, reduce parental stress, increase social support, improve maternal attachment, improve generic health status, improve partner relationship and improve child development compared with usual care. The intervention research in this project can be a future model for service improvement in the CHS.

Conditions

• Primary Prevention

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Supportive home visits to new families	The new families are offered home visits by a public health nurse from 28 weeks in pregnancy until the child is two years old. The number of home visits depends on the families needs and wishes. They also get the usual follow up from the Child health center.
OTHER	Treatment as usual	Follow up at the Child health center according to national regulations

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-10-08
• Primary completion: 2021-06-01
• Completion: 2021-10-01
• First posted: 2019-11-14
• Last updated: 2025-01-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway