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 个研究点目标入组 2,858 人开始时间: 2016年5月16日最近更新: 2021年8月24日

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•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.

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

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McGill University (Canada)