Responsive Parenting Program for Infants in Rural Bangladesh

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Child Development
• Interventions: Behavioral: Responsive parenting; Behavioral: Child Development

• Registration Number: NCT01466933
• Lead Sponsor: McGill University

Brief Summary

Children of mothers in the intervention parenting program are expected to show benefits over the standard care control group in terms of better cognitive/language development, less recent illness, and better height for age. The mothers assigned to the intervention parenting program are expected to evidence higher levels of home stimulation, better health prevention, and better dietary diversity, along with more accurate knowledge of child development.

Detailed Description

There are actually two intervention groups: in one the program is delivered by trained peer educators from the village, and in the other the program is delivered by trained government personnel.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-01
• Study First Submitted: 2011-11-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-11-04
• Study First Posted: 2011-11-08
• Primary Completion: 2012-03
• Study Completion: 2012-03
• Status Verified: 2013-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2013-07-16
• Last Update Posted: 2013-07-18

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 474

Inclusion Criteria

• mother has a child 6 to 14 months of age
• mother willing to learn about child care

Exclusion Criteria

• not severely disabled

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Community-based	Responsive parenting	Community trained peer educator delivers parenting sessions to mothers in the village on a monthly basis
Government-based	Child Development	Government community health workers, trained, deliver the intervention to mothers in the village

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Bayley scales of infant development	12 months	Cognitive, receptive language and expressive language items will be administered to the child and scored as pass/fail with a total score calculated for each subtest and the total.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
HOME Inventory	12 months	45 items assessing through observation and interview opportunities for stimulation in the home.
Mother-Child picture talk	12 months	Mothers' responsive talk while looking at pictures with her child.
Dietary diversity	12 months	Number out of 7 categories of food, based on Mothers recall foods fed to their child over a 24-hour period.
Child development knowledge of mother	12 months	Mothers report the age when they expect children to start acquiring 10 psychosocial skills, e.g. recognize its mother.
height for age	12 months	height for age z score is derived from the current WHO growth standards

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Save the Children district office; 🇧🇩 Kushtia, Bangladesh