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Supporting families in challenging contexts : the CAPEDP project . Although France has one of the most generous health and social care systems for infant and maternal well-being in the Western world , professionals have been increasingly concerned by the rising number of children being referred for mental health problems . The present article describes the first home-visiting program in France to specifically target mental health questions in families living in vulnerable contexts . The CAPEDP project , involving 440 women and their families , took place in Paris and its inner suburbs from 2006 to 2011 . To be eligible for inclusion , women had to be ( i ) under 26 years old , ( ii ) less that 27 weeks pregnant , ( iii ) sufficiently fluent in French to give truly informed consent to participate in the study and benefit from the intervention and ( iv ) presenting with one or more of the following social vulnerability factors : low income , low educational level , and/or intending to bring up the child without the child 's father . The intervention consisted of 44 home visits from the third trimester of pregnancy through to the child 's second birthday . The aim of the intervention was to promote infant mental health and reduce the incidence of infant mental health problems at the age of two years . The intervention paid particular attention to postnatal maternal depression and promoting parenting skills and attachment security , particularly through the use of video during home-visits . A major issue was that of adapting international best practice recommendations with regard to home-visiting programs to the particularities of the existing French social and health care system . An original aspect of the intervention was to use trained clinical psychologists to conduct all home visits .
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home-visiting program
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The intervention consisted of 44 home visits from the third trimester of pregnancy through to the child 's second birthday
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use of video during home-visits
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Outcome_Mental
infant mental health
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incidence of infant mental health problems