Child development Mental and Behavioural Disorders Child development
Conditions
Interventions
The overall treatment will comprise both online and offline service provision. The project team will entrust a software company to develop an "integrated ECD service provision and management applicati
the parenting trainers will visit families in the treatment group during weekly one-on-one home visiting, or invite families to join the weekly training sessions which will be held in parenting center
Sponsors
National Natural Science Foundation of China
UBS Optimus Foundation
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Children residing in the sample county, within one of the 50 villages involved 2. Aged 6 to 24 months at the beginning of the study (intervention phase 1) will be invited to participate together with their primary caregivers 3. Aged 0-17 months (intervention phase 2 or 3)
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: A DIagnosis that would require more professional services, including but not limited to visual, hearing, or intellectual disabilities, ASD, and children whose primary caregiver has a mental disorder.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. The cognitive, language, motor and socioemotional development of children measured using test scores of the Caregiver Reported Early Childhood Development Instruments (CREDI), the Chinese Communicative Development Inventory (CDI), the Infant Behavior Questionnaire (IBQ), the Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire (ECBQ), and the Chinese version of Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (CITSEA) at baseline and 1 year 2. The number of children delayed in cognitive, language, motor and social-emotion development measured using the Caregiver Reported Early Childhood Development Instruments (CREDI), the Chinese Communicative Development Inventory (CDI), the Infant Behavior Questionnaire (IBQ), the Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire (ECBQ), and the Chinese version of Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (CITSEA) at 1 year 3. Physical growth measured using child weight, height, health condition, and quality of sleep between baseline and 1 year | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Changes in parenting attitude and practices, assessed from reports of caregivers using Parenting Practice Questionnaire (PPQ) at baseline and 1 year 2. Parental knowledge of normative infant development, assessed using Knowledge of Infant Development Inventory (KIDI) at baseline and 1 year 3. Aspects of the quality and quantity of psychological stimulation and cognitive support available in the home environment, assessed using the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment Inventory (HOME) at baseline and 1 year 4. Mental wellbeing of caregivers, assessed using the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress (DASS) instrument at baseline and 1 year 5. Involvement of caregivers, assessed using the frequency of participation of offline caregiver-child activity sessions, accessing frequency of scientific parenting information, such as daily child care, scientific feeding, safety protection, disease prevention, and early development and education, demonstrated on the APP, between baseline and 1 year 6. Quality of caregiver-child interaction, assessed using weekly 5- to 10 minutes video will be coded as quantitative data to show the quality of interaction weekly from baseline to the end of the intervention 6. Quality of ECD service provision, assessed using the dosage and content which will be recorded in the APP, caregiver’s formal feedback on the quality of service, and on the parenting trainer after attending each parenting training sessions. This will be collected at between baseline and 1 year | — |
Countries
China
Outcome results
None listed