Manuscript Details

The manuscript describes two studies: a randomized controlled trial (RCT) and a non-experimental design (NED) using a matched comparison group. This review addressed the findings of the RCT. The review of the NED is addressed under the PFL Evaluation Team at the UCD Geary Institute (2012; Study 2).

Information on how certain measures were constructed and their reliability, information to satisfy the baseline equivalence requirement for findings with high attrition, and information on the regression imputation method were based on correspondence with the author. HomVEE’s calculations for statistical significance are used because authors’ calculations are based on one-tailed statistical tests. Several findings not reported in the tables below received a low rating because they had high attrition and did not satisfy the baseline requirement or did not satisfy the reliability requirement. Findings about mothers’ civic engagement, partnership status, household size, the presence of grandparents, whether the mother was breastfed herself as a baby, and whether the mother knows the baby’s weight are ineligible for review because they do not fall in one of HomVEE’ s eligible outcome domains. Measures of the fathers’ income and education are ineligible for review because HomVEE does not review measures of family self-sufficiency for the father, unless the manuscript clearly indicates that the father resides in the household. Findings for difficult child temperament adapted from the Infant Characteristics Questionnaire, the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) Social-Emotional score (total score), ASQ Gross motor score (total score), Parental Locus of Control Scale (PLOC) Control of child's behavior score, and number of child health problems are duplicates of those reported in Doyle et al. (2017) and are reported under that peer-reviewed manuscript.