Child Development
Conditions
Interventions
Study setting: Participants of the study will be drawn from three Area programmes (AP) of World Vision Lanka.
They are Ridigama AP in the Kurunegala district of North Western province, Chankanei AP i
Sponsors
Work Vision International and World Vision Lanka
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Resident in the last year in the selected areas and provide consent to take part in the trial; 2. Have a child 6 to 24 months as of 1st January 2019. The younger of two children will be selected. 3. Has agreed for home visits by facilitators and will visit the intervention sites (community centers) during intervention.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Children who have documented or examined to have significant illness or disability that will not allow age appropriate interventions to be provided (e.g. children with severe development delays, disabilities such as cerebral palsy) 2. Children who do not have a permanent carer (mother/father/grandparents) for the planned period of one year. 3. Mother is pregnant. 4. Mother/primary caregiver with mental disability (e.g. severe depression, Schizophrenia)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Child anthropometric measurements – height/length and weight at baseline and endline (after 6 months) to derive anthropometric indices (weight-for-age, weight-height and height-for-age) using instruments (Seca brand), with the support of trained data collectors; WHO Anthro software will be used to compute standard z-scores of weight for age, height for age and weight for height versus WHO 2007 reference population 2.Child age-appropriate development of language, cognitive, social-emotional and motor development - Caregiver reported early childhood development Instrument (CREDI) to measure child age-appropriate development for language, cognitive, social-emotional and motor development. - Bayley-III, screening of child development in four domains (language, cognitive, social-emotional and motor), will be applied to a nested sample of children from control and intervention sites, by trained psychometricians or paediatricians. [Base line and after 6 months] | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| None [None] | — |
Countries
Sri Lanka
Contacts
Public ContactProf. Rajitha Wickremasinghe
Professor of Public Health
Outcome results
None listed