Evaluating an early childhood care and education program brought to scale in Ghana
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- Conditions
- Child health and cognitive and socio-emotional development.Not Applicable
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN15360698
- Lead Sponsor
- nited States Agency for International Development
- Brief Summary
2022 Protocol article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36229147/ (added 14/10/2022)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Ongoing
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 3240
Inclusion Criteria
1. Aged between 3 and 5 years
2. Enrolled in the 1st year of preschool or planning to enrol in a sample preschool in the coming term (i.e. they must be in the preschool for the whole duration of the treatment).
Exclusion Criteria
Does not meet inclusion criteria
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> Measured 2 to 3 academic terms (6 - 9 months approximately) after treatment commences:<br> 1. Child cognition as measured using the emergent numeracy, emergent literacy and executive functioning tasks in the IDELA as well as items relating to the same domains from the Harvard Laboratory for Development Studies<br> 2. Child health, as measured using height/weight for age and height for weight Z score<br> 3. Child socio-emotional development, as measured by the externalizing, internalizing and pro-social domains of the Strengths and Difficulty questionnaire and the the socio-emotional items in the IDELA<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> Measured 2 to 3 academic terms (6 - 9 months approximately) after treatment commences:<br> 1. Maternal mental health (Kessler-10 and WEMWBS) and knowledge of ECCE<br> 2. Teacher knowledge, motivation and teaching quality (measured through classroom observations)<br> 3. Parent-child investment, as measured by quality of the home environment (FCI and HOME) and the parent-child relationship (CPRS)<br> 4. WASH practices in the home<br> 5. Acute Malnutrition measured by MUAC<br>