Randomized Controlled Trial and Process Evaluation of the Mother-Child Educational Program (MOCEP) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 200
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Disciplinary Style Questionnaire
研究概览
简要总结
The Mother Child Education Program (MOCEP) was developed by the Mother Child Education Foundation (ACEV). MOCEP is implemented in Saudi Arabia through a 25-week program conducted by ACEV-trained groups with a curriculum for the child that is implemented at home by the mothers. The program is designed to (1) promote parenting skills and bolster strategies that support school readiness among mothers of 3-to-6- year-old children, and (2) enhance social cohesion in the family and community. Rigorous evaluations of MOCEP have been conducted in several contexts, but not yet in the context of Saudi Arabia. Thus, the present study aims to rigorously evaluate the impact of MOCEP on child and parent outcomes among families in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
详细描述
The problem and its importance: According to an estimate two hundred million or a third of the world's youngest children do not achieve their potential due to lack of stimulating, nurturing, safe, and responsive caregiving. The importance of caregiving cannot be underestimated for early child development (Engle et al.,2007). However, parents and caregivers need to be supported in fulfilling this role. The results from parenting programs, across high-, middle and low-income countries indicate significant trends in obtaining positive results for parents and children (MOCEP).
In Saudi Arabia, youth represents almost 50% of the population and those < 5 years of age account for 10.6% (GaStat, 2019). As for the crude birth rate among the Saudi population, it hits 17.23 live children for every 1,000 persons. Thus, the government has stressed the importance of investing in national programs that focus on childhood within the scope of the 2030 vision. MOCEP was implemented in Saudi Arabia by the Child Care Association (CCA) which is an NGO established in 2006. The CCA's main objective is to promote Early Child Development (ECD) through the MOCEP since 2011.
The purpose of the present evaluation study--a collaboration between CCA and KAIMRC--is to evaluate the impact of MOCEP on child and parent outcomes among families in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, using a randomized wait-list controlled trial. Specifically, the aim of the study is to empirically assess the impact of MOCEP on maternal and child outcomes and to explore key moderators of the programmatic impact including characteristics of the program implementation and contextual characteristics.
Specific Objective 1: We will characterize the impact of MOCEP on child outcomes including executive function, social-emotional skills, and cognitive skills such as emergent numeracy, literacy and verbal skills.
Specific Objective 2: We will characterize the impact of MOCEP on parental knowledge, attitudes, practices, and skills.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator)
盲法说明
The mothers in the control group will take a special awareness program but not MOCEP and the participant, the care providers and the investigators are masked.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 3 Years 至 9 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Mothers must have at least one child between 3 and 6 years of age.
- •Mothers must be literate.
- •Mothers must be living in the designated implementation areas in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
- •Mothers must agree to attend the MOCEP program and complete questionnaires at the beginning and the end of the program
排除标准
- •No signed consent
研究组 & 干预措施
MOCEP
MOCEP is implemented over a period of 25 weeks, through weekly group meetings that last approximately three hours.
干预措施: MOCEP (Behavioral)
Waitlist Control Group
For ethical reasons, no one recruited will be excluded from the opportunity to benefit from the intervention. MOCEP group will be the primary intervention group and the second group will act as the wait-listed control group. Families in the wait-listed control group will participate in a special awareness program but not MOCEP. Although the families in the wait-listed control group will start as a control group (not receiving the intervention), they will have the opportunity to participate in the intervention in a later round of implementation, after the intervention group has completed the program.
干预措施: MOCEP (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Disciplinary Style Questionnaire
时间窗: 25 weeks
Parent report measure of parental disciplinary style assesses the frequency with which parents engage in seven forms of discipline when dealing with children's undesirable behavior
Better Parenting Questionnaire
时间窗: 25 weeks
11-item questionnaire that measures responsive parenting as reported by the mother
International Development and Early Learning Assessment (IDELA)
时间窗: 25 weeks
An, easy-to-use, rigorous global tool that measures children's early learning and development of children from 3.5 to 6 years of age.
次要结局
- Social-Emotional Status: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (child assessment)(25 weeks)
- Parenting Stress Index (PSI)(25 weeks)
- Individual Distress Assessment (IDA)(25 weeks)
- Father Involvement Questionnaire (FIQ)(25 weeks)
研究者
Maha Muneef
professor of pediatrics infectious Diseases
King Abdullah International Medical Research Center