Child Development
Conditions
Keywords
ECD, parenting program, home visiting
Brief summary
Study activities were carried out to adapt and test a family-strengthening intervention to improve child development outcomes among families facing adversity in Rwanda.
Detailed description
Qualitative research from past studies was used to adapt an existing family-strengthening intervention for HIV-AIDS affected families to extremely vulnerable families with children 0-3 in order to improve early childhood development outcomes. This small scale pilot was carried out to test the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention for extremely vulnerable families with young children in Rwanda. In the first 10 families the intervention consisted of 21 modules, in the second iteration of the study with an additional 10 families, the curriculum was summarized into 15 modules. Modules were delivered by trained bachelor-level interventionists/home-visiting coaches and were delivered to families one on one in their respective homes. Modules were delivered on a weekly to biweekly basis and were flexible to the families needs and other responsibilities.
Interventions
OTHERFSI ECD
The FSI ECD intervention was delivered in a structured curriculum format, covering a range of topics from health, water and sanitation, good hygiene, early stimulation, conflict resolution, to good communication. It was designed to improve vulnerable households home environment and engagement with their children in order to improve child development outcomes. The curriculum was delivered by bachelor-level trained staff with beneficiaries on an individual, one on one basis, using active coaching to promote child well being and behaviors with caregivers.
Sponsors
World Bank
Boston College
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
6 Months to 36 Months
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Potential participants must live in the study catchment area * Caregiver(s) raising a child between 6 and 3 years old and Ubudehe 1 or 2 (Rwanda's poverty classification system) * We will enroll both single and dual caregiver families to reflect population dynamics. * Legal guardians may be aunts, uncles, grandparents, or foster parents
Exclusion criteria
* Potential participants that do not live in the study catchment area * Do not have at least one child between the ages of 0 and 3 living in their household for whom they are the primary caregiver * Are not classified as Ubudehe 1 or 2 * Have severe cognitive impairments which preclude their ability to speak to the research questions under study
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change: Ages and Stages Questionnaire | 12 months/18 months | Child development |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change: Hopkins Symptoms CheckList | 12 months/18 months | Caregiver Mental Health |
| Change: MICS-5 | 12 months/18 months | Water, Sanitation, and Hygeine |
| Change: Rwanda Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis and Nutrition Survey | 12 months/18 months | Household Food Security |
| Change: Locally Derived Scale | 12 months/18 months | Family Trust and Unity |
Outcome results
None listed