Article title: “Extended prenatal and postnatal home visits in a vulnerable area in Sweden—a pilot study”
Author: K. Z. Chin, B. Marklund, S. Kylén and S. Dalemo
Journal: Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
DOI: 10.1080/02813432.2023.2277756
When this article was first published online, incorrect text “Completed home visits” in first column of Table 2 was used. This has now been corrected with the correct text “Missed visitations at the CHC*” as shown below:
Table 2.
Postnatal characteristics of study and control families in a vulnerable area in Sweden.
|
Study
|
Control
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Region
*
|
Stockholm
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year |
2018–2019
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2016–2018
|
2018
|
2013
|
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| Data source |
Medical records
|
Register
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Article [17]
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| Number | (%) | Number | (%) | Number | (%) | Number | (%) | |
| Total | 30 | 55 | 19 268 | 99 | ||||
| Vaccination | ||||||||
| Basic vaccinations† | 30 | (100) | 53 | (96) | – | (97) | (94) | |
| MMR‡ | 30 | (100) | 53 | (96) | – | (97) | (80) | |
| Unvaccinated | 0 | 2 | (4) | – | (2) | |||
| Breastfeeding | ||||||||
| At first home visit | 27 | (90) | 37 | (67) | – | – | ||
| At 6 months | 19 | (63) | 26 | (47) | – | (62) | – | (69) |
| After 6 months | 8 | (27) | 11 | (20) | – | (28) | – | (49) |
| Completed home visits | ||||||||
| 1 | 0 | 2 | (5) | – | (38) | 0 | ||
| 2 | 0 | 51 | (92) | – | (41) | 6 | ||
| 3 | 2 | (7) | – | – | 7 | |||
| 4 | 10 | (33) | – | – | 8 | |||
| 5 | 18 | (60) | – | – | 30 | |||
| 6 | – | 47 | ||||||
| Missed visitations at the CHC * | ||||||||
| 0 | 28 | (93) | 46 | (84) | – | – | ||
| 1 | 1 | (3) | 5 | (9) | – | – | ||
| 2 | 0 | 1 | (2) | – | – | |||
| 3 | 1 | (3) | 3 | (5) | – | – | ||
For comparison, figures from the whole of Region Västra Götaland and the Stockholm study are also reported.
Note. †Basic vaccinations: diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, Hib, hepatitis B (3, 5, 12 months), pneumococcus (3, 5, 12 months).
Measles, mumps, rubella (18 months).
Child Healthcare Service.