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Clinical Trial
. 2000 Sep;29(3):424-31.
doi: 10.1207/S15374424JCCP2903_13.

Mother-infant interaction: effects of a home intervention and ongoing maternal drug use

M E Schuler  1 , P Nair, M M Black, L Kettinger
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Clinical Trial

Mother-infant interaction: effects of a home intervention and ongoing maternal drug use

M E Schuler et al. J Clin Child Psychol. 2000 Sep.

Abstract

Examined the effects of a home-based intervention on mother-infant interaction among drug-using women and their infants. At 2 weeks postpartum, mothers and infants were randomly assigned to either an intervention (n = 84) or a control (n = 87) group. Control families received brief monthly tracking visits, and intervention families received weekly visits by trained lay visitors. Mother-infant interaction was evaluated at 6 months through observation of feeding. Although there were no direct effects of the intervention, in the control group, mothers who continued to use drugs were less responsive to their babies than mothers who were drug free. In the intervention group, drug use was not associated with maternal responsiveness. Weekly home-based intervention may be a protective strategy for children of drug-using women because it disrupts the relation between ongoing maternal drug use and low maternal responsiveness.

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Predicting maternal responsiveness from group membership (control vs. intervention) and ongoing maternal drug use (no vs. yes) using multiple regression analysis.
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