Effects of a School Nurse Prenatal Counseling Program
- 1 December 1991
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Public Health Nursing
- Vol. 8 (4) , 212-218
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-1446.1991.tb00659.x
Abstract
To determine the effects of a school-based, nurse-run prenatal counseling program, records of prenatal care visits of students and their infants' birth weights (i.e., cases) were obtained from the state live birth certificate tape for 1985-1987. From the same tape, a mother residing in the same community but not enrolled in the program was matched with each case on eight criteria to serve as a control. A total of 288 matched case-control pairs were obtained. Using McNemar's test, a significantly higher percentage of the cases received adequate prenatal care than did the controls.Keywords
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