Do Home-Visit Programs for Mothers with Infants Reduce Parenting Stress and Increase Social Capital in Japan?
Do home-visit programs for mothers with infants reduce parenting stress and increase social capital in Japan? The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Fujiwara, Takeo, Keiko Natsume, Makiko Okuyama, Takuyo Sato, and Ichiro Kawachi. 2012. “Do Home-Visit Programs for Mothers with Infants Reduce Parenting Stress and Increase Social Capital in Japan?” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 66 (12): 1167–76. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2011-200793. Citable link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:41275599 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, WARNING: This file should NOT have been available for downloading from Harvard University’s DASH repository. JECH Online First, published on March 30, 2012 as 10.1136/jech-2011-200793 Research report Do home-visit programs for mothers with infants reduce parenting stress and increase social capital in Japan? Takeo Fujiwara,1,2 Keiko Natsume,2,3 Makiko Okuyama,4 Takuyo Sato,5 Ichiro Kawachi6 1Department of Social Medicine, ABSTRACT a review of 21 studies, home-visit programs for National Research Institute for Background Distress during child rearing is known as parents at risk of maltreating their children resulted Child Health and Development, a risk factor for child maltreatment. In addition, it is in a 40% reduction in child maltreatment outcomes Tokyo, Japan 2Department of Health known that social capital can be a preventive factor for among the program participants compared with Promotion, National Institute of child maltreatment. The purpose of this study is to those who did not participate in a home-visit Public Health, Saitama, Japan evaluate whether the home-visit program reduces programme.5 This intervention was considered 3 Department of Health and parenting stress and increases the social capital in the effective since it provided parents with information Welfare, Aichi Prefectural government, Aichi, Japan community.
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