Risk Factors and Birth Outcomes of a High-Risk Cohort of Women Served by a Community-Based Prenatal Home Visiting Program

ABSTRACT

Our study explored risk factors and birth outcomes of a community maternal and child outreach program for high poverty mothers in East and Central Harlem. We conducted a retrospective chart review of 75 mother–infant dyads, with singleton pregnancies, receiving antepartum and postpartum home visits. Inexperienced parenting was associated with increased odds of giving birth to an infant weighing <2,700 g compared to experienced parenting after adjustment for race/ethnicity and preeclampsia diagnosis (odds ratio (OR) 4.9, p = 0.04). Mothers had comparatively lower depression risk in the postpartum period compared to antepartum (p = 0.006).

Disclosures

All contributing authors have no financial conflicts of interest to disclose.

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Funding

This project received partial funding from the National Institutes of Health Short-term Research Training Program for Minority Students: [grant number 5R25HL108857].