David Olds, Ph.D.
(303) 864-5200
Olds.David@tchden.orgDavid Olds directs the Prevention Research Center for Family and Child Health. The major endeavor of this center is the examination of long-term impact of a program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses on the health and development of low-income, first-time mothers and their families. With funding from NIH, other federal agencies, and private philanthropies, longitudinal follow-ups are being conducted of this program which is being tested in the form of randomized controlled trials located in Elmira, NY, Memphis, TN, and Denver, CO. The longitudinal follow-ups are looking at program effects on maternal economic self-sufficiency, substance abuse, and children’s adaptive functioning, including their mental health, criminal behavior, and productive life-course as the children reach adolescence and young adulthood.
In recent years, the PRC has begun a process of careful replication of the nurse home visitation program tested in these studies (now called the Nurse-Family Partnership program) in an effort to make the services available to a large portion of low-income pregnant women in the US. The national replication of the program is now being managed by a non-profit organization known as the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) national office. The NFP national office helps communities develop their capacity to implement the program, and provides training and technical assistance to nurses who deliver the services. The PRC is now conducting a program of research aimed at improving the NFP program model with the use of randomized controlled trials of augmented versions of the NFP model. Randomized trials of these program augmentations, conducted in the system of program sites around the country, examine methods of helping nurses deal more effectively with maternal depression and more fully engage participants in the program.
The PRC is also known for its periodic reviews of early intervention literature, its support of early intervention programs wishing to improve their effectiveness, its consultation with government and private agencies, and its training of prevention scientists..
Recent Publications:1. Olds, D. L. (2002). Prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses: From randomized trials to community replication. Prevention Science 3(3): 153-172.2. Olds, D. L., Robinson, J., O’Brien, R., Luckey, D. W., Pettitt, L. M., Henderson, C. R., Ng, R. N., Korfmacher, J., Hiatt, S., and Talmi, A. (2002). Home visiting by nurses and by paraprofessionals: A randomized controlled trial. Pediatrics 110(3): 486-496.
3. Olds, D. L., Hill, P. L., O’Brien, R., Racine, D., and Moritz, P. Taking preventive intervention to scale: The Nurse-Family Partnership. Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences, in press.
4. Shirk, S., Talmi, A., Olds, D. A developmental psychopathology perspective on child and adolescent treatment policy. Development and Psychopathology, 2000,12:835-855.
5. Eckenrode, J., Ganzel, B., Henderson, C.R., Smith, E., Olds, D., et al. Preventing child abuse and neglect with a program of nurse home visitation: the limiting effects of domestic violence. The Journal of the American Medical Association, 2000, 284:1385-1391.
6. Kitzman, H., Olds, D., Sidora, K., Henderson, C., Hanks, C., Cole, R., et al. Enduring effects of nurse home visitation on maternal life course: a 3-year follow-up of a randomized trial. The Journal of the American Medical Association, 2000, 283:1983-1989.
7. Olds, D, Hill. P., Robinson, J., Song, N., Little, C. Update on home visiting for pregnant women and parents of young children. Current Problems in Pediatrics. 2000: 30 (4) 105-148.
8. Korfmacher J, O’Brien R, Hiatt S, Olds D. Differences in program implementation between nurses and paraprofessionals in prenatal and infancy home visitation: A randomized trial. American Journal of Public Health, 1999;89(12):1847-1851.
9. Fiscella, K, Kitzman, H, Cole, R, Sidora, K, Olds, D. Delayed First Pregnancy Among African-American Adolescent Smokers. Journal of Adolescent Health, 1998; 23:232-237.
10. Olds D., Henderson, C.R. Jr., Cole, R., Eckenrode, J., Kitzman, H., Luckey, D., Pettitt, L., Sidora, K., Morris, P., & Powers, J. Long-term effects of nurse home visitation on children’s criminal and antisocial behavior: 15-year follow-up of a randomized trial. The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1998;280(14);1238-1244.
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGYDepartment of Psychiatry
University of Colorado Denver
Denver, CO 80262For additional Information E-mail:
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