Quality home visits: Activities to promote meaningful interactions.

Examination of and support for specific practices that promote high-quality home visiting are essential as family support programs continue to expand across the country. The current study used direct observation of 91 home visits across 41 home visitors to examine relations among interaction partners, content of the interactions, the home-visitors' activities, and quality of home-visitors' practices and family-members' engagement within programs funded by the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program. More time spent in triadic interactions focused on child-related content, as measured by the Home Visit Rating Scale-Revised, was related to higher quality of family engagement in home visits, as measured with the Home Visit Observation Rating Scales. Time spent in adult-focused interactions and administrative tasks, however, was related to lower quality of home-visiting practices and family engagement. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

A medida que los programas de apoyo familiar continúan expandiéndose a lo largo del país, se hace esencial examinar y apoyar prácticas específicas que promueven la alta calidad de las visitas a casa. El presente estudio usó observaciones directas de 91 visitas a casa llevadas a cabo por 41 visitadores con el fin de examinar las relaciones entre la participación de todas las partes involucradas, el contenido de las interacciones, las actividades de los visitadores a casa, y la calidad tanto de las prácticas de los visitadores como de la participación de los miembros de la familia dentro de los programas subvencionados por MIECHV. Más tiempo empleado en interacciones tríadicas enfocadas en contenidos relacionados con el niño, tal como se midió por medio de las Escalas Revisadas de Evaluación de Visitas a Casa (HVOF-R; McBride y Peterson, 1996), estuvo relacionado con más alta calidad de la participación de la familia en las visitas a casa, tal como se midió por medio de las Escalas de Evaluación de la Observación de Visitas a Casa (HOVRS; Roggman et al., 2014). El tiempo empleado en interacciones enfocadas en los adultos y tareas administrativas, sin embargo, estuvo relacionado con más baja calidad de las prácticas de visita a casa y participación de la familia. Se discuten las implicaciones para la investigación y la práctica.

L'examen et le soutien de pratiques spécifiques qui promeuvent la visite à domicile de qualité sont essentiels alors que les programmes de soutien à famille continuent de se développer aux Etats-Unis. Cette étude a utilisé une observation directe de 91 visites à domicile effectuées par 41 visiteurs afin d'examiner les relations entre les partenaires d'interaction, le contenu des interactions, les activités des visiteurs ou visiteuses à domicile, et la qualité des pratiques des visiteurs ou visiteuses à domicile ainsi que l'engagement des membres de la famille au sein des programmes américains de visite à domicile subventionnés par le programme américain Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting. Plus de temps passé dans les interactions triadiques mettant l'accent sur le contenu lié à l'enfant tel qu'il est mesuré par la version révisée de l'Echelle d'Evaluation de la Visite à Domicile (HVOF-R; McBride & Peterson, 1996) a été lié à une plus grande qualité de l'engagement de la famille durant les visites à domicile telles qu'elles ont été mesurées au moyen des Echelles d'Evaluation de l'Observation de la Visite à Domicile (HOVRS; Roggman et al., 2014). Le temps passé en interactions avec les adultes et en tâches administratives étaient lié à des pratiques de visite à domicile et à un engagement familial de moindre qualité. Les implications pour les recherches et la pratique sont discutées.

Correction to: Triadic Interactions in MIECHV: Relations to Home Visit Quality.

The article "Triadic interactions in MIECHV: Relations to home visit quality", written by Carla A. Peterson, Kere Hughes-Belding, Neil Rowe, Liuran Fan, Melissa Walter, Leslie Dooley, Wen Wang and Chloe Steffensmeier, was originally published electronically on the publisher's internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on 12 June 2018 without open access. With the author(s)' decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on 9 July 2018 to

Triadic Interactions in MIECHV: Relations to Home Visit Quality.

Objectives This study was conducted to look inside home visits to examine active intervention ingredients used and their relations with ratings of home visit quality. In particular, triadic interactions that engage the home visitor, parent, and child together and provide a context for home visitors to facilitate parent-child interactions by observing, modeling and coaching behaviors that promote optimal child development were examined. Methods Observations were conducted to describe intervention activities (with the HVOF-R) and rate quality of home visit practices and engagement (with the HOVRS A+). Results Analyses revealed the majority of home visit time (71%) was spent in home visitor-parent interactions with only a small proportion of home visit time (17%) spent in triadic interactions and an even smaller proportion of time (2%) during which home visitors actively coached parent-child interactions. Amount of time spent in triadic interactions was related positively to quality ratings of home visit practices and engagement. Moreover, time spent coaching parent-child interactions uniquely predicted home visit quality after accounting for visit length and home visitor time spent observing and modeling. Conclusions for Practice Increasing the percentage of home visitors engage the parent and child in triadic interaction should be a focus for home visiting programs. Home visitors will likely need professional development and supervisory support to enhance their skills in coaching parent-child interactions during triadic interactions.