NCT02718287

Evaluation of the Home Visiting Pilot Program on Early Childhood Outcomes in Fortaleza Brazil

Evaluation of the Home Visiting Pilot Programa Cresça Com Seu Filho (PCCSF) on Early Childhood Outcomes: a Cluster-Randomized Trial in Fortaleza Brazil

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 2,520 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Inter-American Development Bank · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Day – 28 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a cluster-randomized study of a home visiting program targeting mothers of children 0 to 2.5 years of age with the objective of improving global child development. The program, Programa Cresça com Seu Filho (PCCSF), will be randomized across 220 microareas in the poorest Region (V) of the state of Fortaleza, Brazil.

Detailed description

This is an evaluation of pilot program, Programa Cresça com Seu Filho (PCCSF) which is publically funded and, developed in a partnership between the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Brazil and the municipal government of Fortaleza. The program targets low-income mothers of children 0 to 2.5 years old, living in low-income neighborhoods in Fortaleza Brazil. The home visits are carried out by community health workers (CHW), who currently work for the Ministry of Health as part of the program Programa Saúde da Família. The CHWs will be trained on the PCCSF curriculum in order to provide 1-hour visits with the early stimulation package during two years. The PCCSF home visiting program is planned to begin implementation the week of March 15, 2016 for half of the community health workers and April 15, 2016 for the other half.

Conditions

• Child Development

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Home visiting intervention PCCSF (220 clusters)	Low income mothers of children 0-2.5 years of age in the randomized treatment micro-areas will receive home visits by community health workers trained in the PCCSF curriculum in addition to the basic health curriculum. The community health workers are supervised by trained and experienced nurses.
BEHAVIORAL	Home visiting without PCCSF (220 clusters)	Low income mothers of children 0-2.5 years of age in the randomized control micro-areas will receive home visits by community health workers trained in the standard basic health curriculum (no PCCSF).

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-03-01
• Primary completion: 2017-10-01
• Completion: 2017-10-01
• First posted: 2016-03-24
• Last updated: 2016-03-30