Evaluation of parenting interventions to promote child development through home visits or a health centre based approach in three Caribbean countries

Home and health centre delivery of early childhood stimulation: cluster randomised trial of the impact of interventions to improve parenting of children aged 2-18 months on child development in the Caribbean countries

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN43108304

Enrollment

600

Registered

2011-06-06

Start date

2011-07-15

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2019-02-11

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Conditions

Early child development Mental and Behavioural Disorders

Interventions

1. In Jamaica 20 Health centres will be randomly assigned to one of 4 groups: 1.1. Health Centre intervention 1.2. Home visit 1.3. Both interventions

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Mothers and infants attending government (public) primary care health centres for child care 2. Mothers and infants will be recruited at the six week post natal clinics

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Infants with obvious mental or physical disabilities 2. Twins

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
1. Child Psychomotor development: Griffiths Scales of Mental Development to assess the childrens' development at age 19-20 months 2. The scales have been used frequently in Jamaica where it has good concurrent and predictive validity 3. Language development: the short version of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory (Short Communicative Development Inventory, CDI) will be used to measure language development based on mothers' report	—

Measure

Time frame

1. Child Psychomotor development: Griffiths Scales of Mental Development to assess the childrens' development at age 19-20 months 2. The scales have been used frequently in Jamaica where it has good concurrent and predictive validity 3. Language development: the short version of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory (Short Communicative Development Inventory, CDI) will be used to measure language development based on mothers' report

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Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1. Child growth: weight, length and head circumference will be measures on enrolment at age 6-8 weeks and at age 19-20 months 2. Child behaviour: ratings of behaviour during the developmental test session 3. Maternal parenting knowledge, practices and depressive symptoms will be measured on enrolment and at age 19-20 months 4. Mothers? knowledge of child development will be assessed by questionnaire 5. Stimulation in the home will be assessed with a subset of questions from the Home Observations for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) 6. Maternal depressive symptoms will be assessed using the CES depression scale	—

Measure

Time frame

1. Child growth: weight, length and head circumference will be measures on enrolment at age 6-8 weeks and at age 19-20 months 2. Child behaviour: ratings of behaviour during the developmental test session 3. Maternal parenting knowledge, practices and depressive symptoms will be measured on enrolment and at age 19-20 months 4. Mothers? knowledge of child development will be assessed by questionnaire 5. Stimulation in the home will be assessed with a subset of questions from the Home Observations for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) 6. Maternal depressive symptoms will be assessed using the CES depression scale

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Countries

Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica, Saint Lucia

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026