Publications by authors named "Mary Campa"
Article Synopsis
- The paper discusses the California Black Infant Health Program, which aims to enhance maternal and infant health for Black mothers through group and individual support.
- It analyzes participation and service delivery data from the program's first three years (2015-2018), showing that a significant number of participants benefitted from various services.
- Findings suggest participants reported high satisfaction and effectiveness of the program, indicating its foundation in addressing health disparities rooted in systemic racism and its potential for successful implementation.
Purpose: This paper describes the approach used to develop the Adolescent Family Life Program (AFLP) Positive Youth Development (PYD) Model within the structure of an existing state government-run program.
Description: The California Department of Public Health, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health (CDPH/MCAH) Division undertook an innovative approach to develop a program model to help expectant and parenting youth build resilience. CDPH/MCAH started by assessing existing program efforts and theory to develop and test new strategies in the field, structure a program model, and build toward broader expansion and sustainability.
Purpose: The aim of the article was to understand community-level factors associated with the decline in the adolescent birth rate (ABR) in California from 2000 to 2014.
Methods: We consolidated multiple data sources at the level of the Medical Service Study Area (MSSA), a federally recognized subcounty geographic unit (N = 497). We used ordinary least squares regression to examine predictors of change in the ABR at the MSSA level over three periods of notable change in California's ABR: 2000-2002, 2006-2008, and 2012-2014.
Reaching High-Need Youth Populations With Evidence-Based Sexual Health Education in California.
Am J Public Health
February 2018
Objectives: To explore the programmatic reach and experience of high-need adolescents who received sexual health education in 3 distinct implementation settings (targeted-prevention settings, traditional schools, and alternative schools) through a statewide sexual health education program.
Methods: Data are from youth surveys collected between September 2013 and December 2014 in the California Personal Responsibility Education Program. A sample of high-need participants (n = 747) provided data to examine the impact of implementation setting on reach and program experience.
We examine maternal life-course mediators of the impact of a nurse home visitation program on reducing child maltreatment among participants in the Elmira trial of the Nurse Family Partnership program from the first child's birth through age 15. For women having experienced low to moderate levels of domestic violence, program effects on the number of confirmed maltreatment reports were mediated by reductions in numbers of subsequent children born to mothers and their reported use of public assistance. Together, the two mediators explained nearly one half of the total effect of nurse home visiting on child maltreatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The purpose of this study was to compare awareness and use of family planning services by rural and urban program site among a sample of adolescent women before participation in the federal Personal Responsibility Education Program in California.
Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis of survey data collected from youth before participation in California's Personal Responsibility Education Program. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were conducted for a sample of 4,614 females ages 14-18 years to compare awareness and use of family planning services between participants at rural and urban program sites, controlling for the program setting and participant demographic, sexual, and reproductive characteristics.
Objective: To examine the effect of prenatal and infancy nurse home visitation on the life course development of 19-year-old youths whose mothers participated in the program.
Design: Randomized trial.
Setting: Semirural community in New York.