The effect of affordable daycare on health and well-being over the life-course

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Health conditions included: childhood vaccination coverage; incidence of children's health conditions (e.g., fever, diarrhoea); child nutrition, based on measured height and weight; women's self-rated health and subjective well-being; women's mental distress; intimate partner violence; Not Applicable

• Registration Number: ISRCTN45369145
• Lead Sponsor: McGill University (Canada)

Brief Summary

2016 Protocol article in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27277941 protocol 2020 Results article in https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2020.1773898 (added 13/08/2021)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2016-05-16
• Study Completion: 2017-09-30
• Last Update Posted: 24 August 2021

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 2858

Inclusion Criteria

We selected participants from village hamlets located in Rajasthan, the site of the intervention. 160 hamlets were selected from five blocks (i.e., Badgaon, Girwa, Jhadol, Kherwara, Kotra) in the Udaipur District where Seva Mandir had not previously established balwadis.

These hamlets satisfied five criteria determined a priori, specifically:
1. No readily accessible daycare within 1.5 kilometers to reduce the potential for contamination effects
2. A minimum number of children (=25) in the appropriate age range in the hamlet to ensure adequate demand
3. An existing structure suitable for a daycare
4. A qualified woman, living in the study hamlet or nearby, to operate the daycare
5. Adequate demand from the village council (Panchayat) for a new daycare

In late 2014, we completed a household census in each of the 160 hamlets to confirm the eligibility of the hamlet, enumerate the population, and identify potential respondents for inclusion. Eligible households were those with at least one mother (biological or guardian) with a child between one and six years of age. At this time, the respondent was considered eligible if they responded to the question Do you have any children between one to six years of age” with a yes. Based on this, the total number of eligible households was similar to our desired sample size (n=3200). From this list, we randomly selected one eligible respondent from each eligible household to complete a baseline survey.

Exclusion Criteria

Households without a mother with an age-eligible child from the 160 study hamlets

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified