The central Kentucky Health Department aims to help families through providing “prenatally, postnatal, and long-term programs” (Ferguson & Vanderpool, 2013, p. 552), which allows parents of a new-born to ask questions and learn to be competent with baby-rearing practices until childhood if necessary. The program is aimed to improve the statistic of parental behavior (Ferguson & Vanderpool, 2013). The goal of Ferguson and Vanderpool’s (2013) observation was to test the importance of parent-involvement in a home-visitation program. Before the health care intervention, parents would be interviewed to determine factors that may play a substantial role in their child-rearing abilities (Ferguson & Vanderpool, 2013). The Parent Survey test is given
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First, Kentucky nurses saw positive pregnancy test and gave the women a reference to HANDS (Ferguson and Vanderpool, 2013). Secondly, if the mother said she was “(1) single, separated or divorced, (2) non-compliant with prenatal care, or (3) has attempted an abortion or 4) or indicates any two other factors (i.e., domestic violence, history of substance abuse, isolation, limited parental education, maternal depression, poor prenatal care, unemployment, unstable housing)” (Ferguson & Vanderpool, 2013, p. 553), a nurse gave her a positive screen and she was admitted to the program. Third, couples may be contacted to participate or they can request professional assistance, which then they will take the Parent Survey (Ferguson and Vanderpool,2013). The test observes 6 of the 10 objectives which are the “… (2) lifestyle behaviors and mental health, (3) parenting experience, (4) coping skills and support system, (5) stresses, (6) anger management skills, [and] (8) plans for discipline…” (Ferguson & Vanderpool, 2013, p.553). Each question is based on a scale of 0 to 10, the lower the number the smaller the risk of low parental incompetence (Ferguson and Vanderpool, 2013). After completing the Parent Survey at the Kentucky Health Care Clinic, if one parent scores greater than 25 the couple will be admitted in the program (Ferguson & Vanderpool, …show more content…
In the research the objective is to prove that house visits are effective, if potential parents were wanting information on the helpfulness and resources given, they would not receive the information. Researchers need to add the content of the conversations between the professional caregivers and participating parents. The last graph portrays the different dimensions benefitting parents, two of the objective percentage increased- stress and lifestyle behaviors and mental health. The research helped show the dimensions tested; however, the research is biased to the decreased percentages and dismisses the increased. Naturally, these two heightened objectives will stereotypically change, a new baby is stressful. However, if the study was re-done, changing the 6 dimensions to include sub-categories that are less subjective would increase the validity of the research.
Lastly, there is not a control group. Ferguson and Vanderpool’s (2013) research proves guided assistance in the caregiving of an infant is helpful; however, there is nothing comparing the informed parent’s vs parents without assistance given. This information should be included to give the full importance and helpfulness of home-visitations.
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First, Kentucky nurses saw positive pregnancy test and gave the women a reference to HANDS (Ferguson and Vanderpool, 2013). Secondly, if the mother said she was “(1) single, separated or divorced, (2) non-compliant with prenatal care, or (3) has attempted an abortion or 4) or indicates any two other factors (i.e., domestic violence, history of substance abuse, isolation, limited parental education, maternal depression, poor prenatal care, unemployment, unstable housing)” (Ferguson & Vanderpool, 2013, p. 553), a nurse gave her a positive screen and she was admitted to the program. Third, couples may be contacted to participate or they can request professional assistance, which then they will take the Parent Survey (Ferguson and Vanderpool,2013). The test observes 6 of the 10 objectives which are the “… (2) lifestyle behaviors and mental health, (3) parenting experience, (4) coping skills and support system, (5) stresses, (6) anger management skills, [and] (8) plans for discipline…” (Ferguson & Vanderpool, 2013, p.553). Each question is based on a scale of 0 to 10, the lower the number the smaller the risk of low parental incompetence (Ferguson and Vanderpool, 2013). After completing the Parent Survey at the Kentucky Health Care Clinic, if one parent scores greater than 25 the couple will be admitted in the program (Ferguson & Vanderpool, …show more content…
In the research the objective is to prove that house visits are effective, if potential parents were wanting information on the helpfulness and resources given, they would not receive the information. Researchers need to add the content of the conversations between the professional caregivers and participating parents. The last graph portrays the different dimensions benefitting parents, two of the objective percentage increased- stress and lifestyle behaviors and mental health. The research helped show the dimensions tested; however, the research is biased to the decreased percentages and dismisses the increased. Naturally, these two heightened objectives will stereotypically change, a new baby is stressful. However, if the study was re-done, changing the 6 dimensions to include sub-categories that are less subjective would increase the validity of the research.
Lastly, there is not a control group. Ferguson and Vanderpool’s (2013) research proves guided assistance in the caregiving of an infant is helpful; however, there is nothing comparing the informed parent’s vs parents without assistance given. This information should be included to give the full importance and helpfulness of home-visitations.
Social Application of Findings and Personal