Title

Measuring the Quality of Home Visiting Services A Review of the Literature

Date

2015

Author(s)

Sara Schodt, James Parr, María Caridad Araujo, and Marta Rubio-Codina

Brief Type

White Paper

Model(s)

  • Early Head Start Home-Based Option (EHS)
  • Healthy Families America (HFA)
  • Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP)

Description

This document reviews the literature on the definition and measurement of quality of home visiting programs designed to promote early childhood development, with a particular focus on those interventions aimed at enhancing child cognitive, language, and socio - emotional outcomes. After summarizing the evidence on home visiting programs in t he United States and internationally, we discuss the key elements that define a high quality home visit. Next, we describe a range of instruments designed to measure both structural and process elements of quality of home visits, instances in which they have been used, and the results of their administration. (author abstract)

Data Collection Methods

Status

Finished

For More Information

Schodt, S., Parr, J., Araujo, M. C., & Rubio-Codina, M. (2015). Measuring the quality of home-visiting services: A review of the literature. Inter-American Development Bank. https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Measuring-the-Quality-of-Home-Visiting-Services-A-Review-of-the-Literature.pdf

Topics

  • Other