None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The early years of life can have long lasting impacts on an individual's health, productivity and well-being, which are also relevant to communities, economies and societies. To improve child health and development, parenting interventions especially from conception to age two are crucial to support children in reaching their full potential. Our team developed an evidence-based parenting intervention to improve infant health and development in Vietnam (described in ACTRN12617000442303), which included locally facilitated, community-based group sessions with participatory learning opportunities, including 8 sessions during pregnancy, 11 sessions in the first post-partum year, and a home visit in the first post-partum month. This project is a follow-up study to that trial to examine the mid-term effects of a parenting intervention delivered from mid-pregnancy to the first postpartum year on child intellectual ability at approximately ages seven and nine.
Interventions
This is a follow-up study to assess the effects of the intervention 'Learning Clubs' now known as ‘Early Journey of Life’ on women's health and child health and development.
Specific details of the original trial can be found in the registration record for ACTRN12617000442303. In brief, 'Early Journey of Life' comprised 20 educational modules, delivered in face-to-face groups at a community centre and in one home visit. Each session was facilitated by a member of the local Women's Union, who h
This is a follow-up study to assess the effects of the intervention 'Learning Clubs' now known as ‘Early Journey of Life’ on women's health and child health and development. Specific details of the original trial can be found in the registration record for ACTRN12617000442303. In brief, 'Early Journey of Life' comprised 20 educational modules, delivered in face-to-face groups at a community centre and in one home visit. Each session was facilitated by a member of the local Women's Union, who has had experience in conducting community programs and also received training specific to this trial. When required, a community health worker and/or a kindergarten teacher also participated. Each module aimed to increase perinatal stage-specific essential knowledge and skills through structured learning activities that were translated, culturally adapted and field-tested for salience and comprehensibility. The program was implemented in facilitated small groups of women meeting every two to four weeks in community centres from early pregnancy until the end of the first postpartum year (a total of 19 facilitated sessions) and one home visit during the first eight postpartum weeks when mothers and infants in this setting usually do not go out of the house. Data collection of the original trial was completed in 2021 when the children were two years old. A follow-up study will be conducted to examine the mid-term effects of the intervention. We will re-enrol all mother-child dyads who participated in the original trial and still live in Ha Nam province or Hanoi in Vietnam. As this is a follow-up study, no changes have been made to the intervention. Following re-enrolment, mother-child dyads will complete a questionnaire when the child is approximately six years old in 2025/2026 and eight years old in 2027/2028. Additionally, when the child is around six years old, a blood sample will be collected from the mothers.
Sponsors
Monash University
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
5 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Mother-child dyads who completed the baseline survey of the original trial (ACTRN12617000442303) and whose children are alive and residing in Ha Nam or Hanoi will be eligible to participate in the follow-up study.
Exclusion criteria
Children who have died will be recorded and excluded.
Outcome results
None listed