AHRQ Innovations Exchange | Nurse-Led Home Visits, Group Counseling Reduce Risky Behaviors and Sexually Transmitted Infections, Improve Family/School Connectedness and Grades Among Sexually Exploited Runaway Girls

Nurse-Led Home Visits, Group Counseling Reduce Risky Behaviors and Sexually Transmitted Infections, Improve Family/School Connectedness and Grades Among Sexually Exploited Runaway Girls

Snapshot
Summary
The Minnesota Runaway Intervention Program is a nurse-led initiative to help sexually assaulted or exploited runaway girls reconnect to family, school, and health care resources. Through a combination of home visits and group counseling, the program aims to reestablish girls’ positive development, reduce trauma, and improve health and coping behaviors. The program reduced risky behaviors and sexually transmitted infections while improving family and school connectedness and grades.

Evidence Rating
Moderate: The evidence consists of comparisons of self-reported data and screening results for a group of 20 early participants at baseline and 6 months after enrollment, along with comparisons of similar data and screening results for a group of 68 participants at baseline and after 6 and 12 months in the program. Data from these 68 participants was compared to 12,775 nonabused and abused urban ninth-grade girls who participated in the 2004 Minnesota Student Survey.

Developing Organizations
Midwest Children’s Resource Center, Minnesota Children’s Hospital (St. Paul, MN)


Date First Implemented
2003

Patient Population
Age > Child (6-12 years); Adolescent (13-18 years); Race and Ethnicity > Asian; Gender > Female; Vulnerable Populations > Children; Racial minorities; Urban populations


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