NCT03045640

Family Strengthening Intervention for Early Childhood Development (ECD)

Adapting a Family Strengthening Intervention (FSI) to Improve Early Childhood Development (ECD) Outcomes

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 55 (actual)
• Sponsor: Boston College · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Months – 36 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Study activities were carried out to adapt and test a family-strengthening intervention to improve child development outcomes among families facing adversity in Rwanda.

Detailed description

Qualitative research from past studies was used to adapt an existing family-strengthening intervention for HIV-AIDS affected families to extremely vulnerable families with children 0-3 in order to improve early childhood development outcomes. This small scale pilot was carried out to test the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention for extremely vulnerable families with young children in Rwanda. In the first 10 families the intervention consisted of 21 modules, in the second iteration of the study with an additional 10 families, the curriculum was summarized into 15 modules. Modules were delivered by trained bachelor-level interventionists/home-visiting coaches and were delivered to families one on one in their respective homes. Modules were delivered on a weekly to biweekly basis and were flexible to the families needs and other responsibilities.

Conditions

• Child Development

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	FSI ECD	The FSI ECD intervention was delivered in a structured curriculum format, covering a range of topics from health, water and sanitation, good hygiene, early stimulation, conflict resolution, to good communication. It was designed to improve vulnerable households home environment and engagement with their children in order to improve child development outcomes. The curriculum was delivered by bachelor-level trained staff with beneficiaries on an individual, one on one basis, using active coaching to promote child well being and behaviors with caregivers.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-10-01
• Primary completion: 2016-09-01
• Completion: 2016-09-01
• First posted: 2017-02-07
• Last updated: 2018-05-31