2011 The Palm Beach County Family Study (Full Report)

orn Hispanics to receive enhanced services. However, there was no difference between U.S.- andforeign-born Hispanics, or between mothers of other races/ethnicities and foreign-born Hispanics. Also,mothers with depressive symptoms or physical/mental health problems were significantly less likely toreceive enhanced services. On the other hand, similar to the results for the county, mothers who were highschool dropouts remained more likely to receive enhanced services; the odds of these mothers receivingsuch services were over 2½ times the odds of mothers with a high school diploma or above doing so.Among the sample mothers who received intensive care coordination, about 53 percent also receivedenhanced services. A logistic regression analysis shows that, after controlling for other variables, U.S.-born blacks and residents of the Glades were significantly less likely to receive enhanced services, aswere mothers who owned their own homes or lived with a homeowner.Days of Treatment ServicesAs shown in Table B- 11 of the Appendix, mothers in the county who received treatment servicesexperienced 14 days of treatment on average (SD = 20.7). In addition, across the cohorts, there has been adecline in the days of treatment services received, with the majority of the decline appearing to arise froma decline in the number of days of intensive care coordination.An OLS regression analysis of the county data reveals that the following variables are associated with anincrease in the days of treatment services received by mothers: use of alcohol during pregnancy, use ofWIC during pregnancy, use of tobacco during pregnancy, late or no prenatal care, mother had less than ahigh school education, mother was not married at time of birth, mother was a teen at time of birth, motherresided in the TGAs, mother had health complications during pregnancy, delivery complications, babywas underweight and baby was premature (see Table B- 15 in the Appendix). The largest increases werefound for mothers with less than a high school education, mothers who were teens, mothers who residedin the TGAs, mothers who were not married, mothers who used alcohol, and mothers who used WIC. Wealso found that all race/nativity groups received 2 to 2½ fewer days of treatment on average, whencompared to foreign-born Hispanics. Finally, we found that mothers in the 2008 and 2009 birth cohortsreceived 1 to 2 fewer days of treatment on average, when compared to mothers in the 2004 cohort.In the baseline survey sample, mothers who received treatment services experienced 20 days of treatmenton average (SD = 26). As reported in Spielberger et al. (2010), we did not find many differences betweenmothers receiving more as opposed to fewer days of treatment services. A linear regression analysis ofdays of treatment services reveals that, controlling for all other variables, each additional child isassociated with about 4 more days of service on average. Also, having a child with special needs isassociated with an increase of almost 9 days, while having depressive symptoms or a physical or mentalhealth problem is associated with an increase of about 13 days.Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago 92