Class
Article
Department
Psychology Department
Faculty Mentor
Lori Roggman
Presentation Type
Poster Presentation
Abstract
The way parents interact with their children greatly influences their children’s development. Home visiting programs can help parents improve the quality of interactions with their children and improve child outcomes. Often home visits involve only the parent and the child, however, with the COVID-19 pandemic more family members may be present during these visits. This provides the opportunity for more family members to be involved, which may affect the quality of home visits. The present study examined whether home visit practices were affected by involvement of other family members. Additionally, we examined whether involvement of other family members impacted overall family engagement and the outcomes for parents and children from home visits. This study also aimed to provide rationale for a future study examining the effects of other family involvement, specifically sibling involvement in home visits. Extant data from a nationwide sample, from multiple home visiting models, included 584 home visits, 357 with other family members. Ratings from the Home Visit Rating Scales-3 measure reflected home visit practices and family engagement across seven scales: responsiveness, relationship, facilitation, collaboration, caregiver-child interaction, caregiver engagement, and child engagement. T-tests indicated statistically significant differences in collaboration between visits where other family members were simply present and visits without, but the differences were small. Higher quality engagement of other family members in visits was more strongly correlated with higher home visit quality. This shows that having other family members simply present for the visit has a small impact, but when family members were more engaged in the visit and with each other, home visits showed substantially higher quality. Our results provide support for a future study to develop strategies to include additional family members, specifically siblings, in home visits and examine how their involvement affects home visit quality. Presentation Time: Wednesday, 12-1 p.m.
Location
Logan, UT
Start Date
4-12-2021 12:00 AM
Included in
Involving Additional Family Members in Home Visits
Logan, UT
The way parents interact with their children greatly influences their children’s development. Home visiting programs can help parents improve the quality of interactions with their children and improve child outcomes. Often home visits involve only the parent and the child, however, with the COVID-19 pandemic more family members may be present during these visits. This provides the opportunity for more family members to be involved, which may affect the quality of home visits. The present study examined whether home visit practices were affected by involvement of other family members. Additionally, we examined whether involvement of other family members impacted overall family engagement and the outcomes for parents and children from home visits. This study also aimed to provide rationale for a future study examining the effects of other family involvement, specifically sibling involvement in home visits. Extant data from a nationwide sample, from multiple home visiting models, included 584 home visits, 357 with other family members. Ratings from the Home Visit Rating Scales-3 measure reflected home visit practices and family engagement across seven scales: responsiveness, relationship, facilitation, collaboration, caregiver-child interaction, caregiver engagement, and child engagement. T-tests indicated statistically significant differences in collaboration between visits where other family members were simply present and visits without, but the differences were small. Higher quality engagement of other family members in visits was more strongly correlated with higher home visit quality. This shows that having other family members simply present for the visit has a small impact, but when family members were more engaged in the visit and with each other, home visits showed substantially higher quality. Our results provide support for a future study to develop strategies to include additional family members, specifically siblings, in home visits and examine how their involvement affects home visit quality. Presentation Time: Wednesday, 12-1 p.m.