Adapting a Family Strengthening Intervention (FSI) to Improve Early Childhood Development (ECD) Outcomes
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 55
- 主要终点
- Change: Ages and Stages Questionnaire
研究概览
简要总结
Study activities were carried out to adapt and test a family-strengthening intervention to improve child development outcomes among families facing adversity in Rwanda.
详细描述
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 6 Months 至 36 Months（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •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
排除标准
- •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
研究组 & 干预措施
FSI ECD
Vulnerable Households (ubudehe 1 or 2) in the Government of Rwanda's poverty classification system, when categories ranged from 1 to 6; the system has since been restructured to have four categories only. Often a way to identify households for public works opportunities or other government assistance programs. For this arm, families had to be Ubudehe 1 or 2 and have a child aged 0-3 years. Households meeting these criteria in the catchment area(s) received the FSI ECD home-based parenting intervention from bachelor-level interventionists/"coaches."
干预措施: FSI ECD (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Change: Ages and Stages Questionnaire
时间窗: 12 months/18 months
Child development
次要结局
- Change: Locally Derived Scale(12 months/18 months)
- Change: Hopkins Symptoms CheckList(12 months/18 months)
- Change: Rwanda Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis and Nutrition Survey(12 months/18 months)
- Change: MICS-5(12 months/18 months)
研究者
Theresa Betancourt
Salem Professor in Global Practice
Boston College