Evaluation of parenting interventions to promote child development through home visits or a health centre based approach in three Caribbean countries
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Mental and Behavioural DisordersEarly child development
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN43108304
- Lead Sponsor
- The University of the West Indies (Jamaica)
- Brief Summary
1. 2015 results of the impact, acceptability and costs of delivering parenting interventions through health services in the Caribbean, in https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286446075 (added 21/01/2019) 2. 2015 results of integrating a parenting intervention with routine primary health care, in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26148947 (added 21/01/2019) 3. 2017 results in https://doi.org/10.1080/17450128.2017.1395100 (added 21/01/2019)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 600
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
1. Infants with obvious mental or physical disabilities
2. Twins
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> 1. Child Psychomotor development: Griffiths Scales of Mental Development to assess the childrens' development at age 19-20 months<br> 2. The scales have been used frequently in Jamaica where it has good concurrent and predictive validity<br> 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<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> 1. Child growth: weight, length and head circumference will be measures on enrolment at age 6-8 weeks and at age 19-20 months<br> 2. Child behaviour: ratings of behaviour during the developmental test session<br> 3. Maternal parenting knowledge, practices and depressive symptoms will be measured on enrolment and at age 19-20 months<br> 4. Mothers? knowledge of child development will be assessed by questionnaire<br> 5. Stimulation in the home will be assessed with a subset of questions from the Home Observations for Measurement of the Environment (HOME)<br> 6. Maternal depressive symptoms will be assessed using the CES depression scale<br>