Skip to main content
Clinical Trials/ISRCTN45369145
ISRCTN45369145
Completed
未知

The effect of an affordable daycare program on health and economic well-being in Rajasthan, India: protocol for a cluster-randomized impact evaluation study

McGill University (Canada)0 sites2,858 target enrollmentMay 16, 2016

Overview

Phase
未知
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Health conditions included: childhood vaccination coverage
Sponsor
McGill University (Canada)
Enrollment
2858
Status
Completed
Last Updated
4 years ago

Overview

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)

Registry
who.int
Start Date
May 16, 2016
End Date
September 30, 2017
Last Updated
4 years ago
Study Type
Interventional
Sex
Female

Investigators

Sponsor
McGill University (Canada)

Eligibility Criteria

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

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

Similar Trials