A cost-effectiveness evaluation of a home visit program for adolescent mothers

Marcela Aracena; Mariane Krause; Carola Pérez; Marí Jesú Méndez; Loreto Salvatierra; Mauricio Soto; Tomás Pantoja; Sandra Navarro; Alejandra Salinas; Claudio Farah; Carolina Altimir

doi:10.1177/1359105309340988

A cost-effectiveness evaluation of a home visit program for adolescent mothers

Marcela Aracena^*
, Mariane Krause
, Carola Pérez
, Marí Jesú Méndez
, Loreto Salvatierra
, Mauricio Soto
, Tomás Pantoja
, Sandra Navarro
, Alejandra Salinas
, Claudio Farah
, Carolina Altimir

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A home visit intervention program for adolescents throughout their pregnancy and during the early stages of motherhood was evaluated. The participants (N = 90) were part of a larger group of adolescents treated in two health centers in a poor neighborhood in Santiago, Chile. The program was carried out by volunteer community health monitors and evaluated through an experimental, randomized, controlled clinical trial. Cost-effectiveness was examined in comparison with standard health care. Results show higher scores for the intervention group on the mothers' mental health and nutritional state, as well as on the children's levels of linguistic development.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	878-887
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Health Psychology
Volume	14
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105309340988
State	Published - 2009

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Adolescent pregnancy
Community intervention program
Cost-effectiveness
Home visits

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