Children’s overall development
Conditions
Interventions
Control group:Regular health check-ups in community or township primary care facilities for children =3 years.
Intervention group:Enhanced ECD program: enhanced regular health check-ups, care group activity in community or township primary care facilities for children =3 years.
Sponsors
Shanghai Children's Medical Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1.Children aged 6 to 23 months; 2. The child is a full-term healthy infant (>=37 weeks of gestation) without obvious diseases, and is a single fetus. 3. The child has a fixed primary caregiver whose age is no more than 65 years old, and neither the child nor the primary caregiver has any plan to leave the local area for residence within 12 months. 4. The main caregiver is willing to participate in this project and can come for follow-up at the prescribed time. 5. Prioritize the recruitment of children living within a 2-kilometer radius of town or sub-district health centers. If the number is insufficient, expand the recruitment to children within a 4-kilometer radius.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1.Birth weight below 2500 grams; 2.Severe birth defects, genetic diseases or inborn errors of metabolism (such as Down syndrome, hypothyroidism, phenylketonuria, etc.); 3.Suffering from severe infectious diseases (such as intrauterine infection, pneumonia, sepsis, etc.), neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, neonatal convulsions, persistent hypoglycemia, etc. in the neonatal period; 4.Severe birth injury, such as intrauterine/intrapartum/postpartum asphyxia, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy or intracranial hemorrhage, and requiring hospitalization; 5.Diagnosed as Global Developmental Delay (GDD) by an authoritative agency; 6.The primary caregiver has been diagnosed with mental or neurological diseases such as depression and schizophrenia;
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| children’s overall development (GSED combined short and long form format); | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Children’s overall development (GSED long form);Correct diversity rate of complementary feeding;Family discipline behaviors;Children’s hemoglobin level in g/dL(anemia rate);Breastfeeding;Parenting knowledge of primary caregiver;children’s overall development (GSED short form);Mental health of primary caregiver;Parenting self-efficacy and motivation of primary caregiver;family function;The respiratory infections in children;Correct diversity rate of complementary feeding;Parent-child interactions between primary caregiver and child;Anthropometric measurements of the children, including length and weight (stunting and wasting rates);Children's screen exposure;Quality of life of primary caregiver;Integrated family parenting environment;Parenting skills of primary caregiver;children’s developmental delay;Parenting behavior of primary caregiver; | — |
Countries
China
Contacts
Public ContactJiang Fan
Shanghai Children's Medical Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Outcome results
None listed