Schedules for home visits in the early postpartum period

CONCLUSIONS: The evidence is very uncertain about the effect of home visits on maternal and neonatal mortality. Individualised care as part of a package of home visits probably improves depression scores at four months and increasing the frequency of home visits may improve exclusive breastfeeding rates and infant healthcare utilisation. Maternal satisfaction may also be better with home visits compared to hospital check-ups. Overall, the certainty of evidence was found to be low and findings were not consistent among studies and comparisons. Further well designed RCTs evaluating this complex intervention will be required to formulate the optimal package.PMID:34286512 | DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD009326.pub4
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - Category: General Medicine Authors: Source Type: research