NCT01466933

Responsive Parenting Program for Infants in Rural Bangladesh

Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Parent Support/Counselling Program With a Focus on Responsive Stimulation for Infants and Young Children in Rural Bangladesh

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 474 (actual)
• Sponsor: McGill University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Months – 14 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Conditions

• Child Development

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Responsive parenting	On a monthly basis, mothers meet with the peer educator to learn about ways to provide a hygienic environment (hand-washing), proper diverse diet (family foods, breast milk), play materials and conversation to stimulation their child's cognitive and language development. Mothers practice with their child and are coached by the peer educator.
BEHAVIORAL	Child Development	On a monthly basis, mothers meet with the government worker to learn about ways to provide a hygienic environment (hand-washing), proper diverse diet (family foods, breast milk), play materials and conversation to stimulation their child's cognitive and language development.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-01-01
• Primary completion: 2012-03-01
• Completion: 2012-03-01
• First posted: 2011-11-08
• Last updated: 2013-07-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Bangladesh