Visiting Nurse Improves Intelligence

Visiting Nurse Improves Intelligence.
Poor children get polymath and behavioral benefits from old folks' visits by nurses and other skilled caregivers, new research suggests. The scrutinize included more than 700 poor women and their children in Denver who enrolled in a non-profit program called the Nurse-Family Partnership. This federal program tries to improve outcomes for first-born children of first-time mothers with restricted support.

The goal of the study, which was published online recently in the documentation JAMA Pediatrics, was to determine the effectiveness of using trained "paraprofessionals". These professionals did not need college instruction and they shared many of the same social characteristics of the families they visited. The women in the study were divided into three groups.