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

Inter-American Development Bank

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Child Development

Treatments: Behavioral: Home visiting without PCCSF (220 clusters); Behavioral: Home visiting intervention PCCSF (220 clusters)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02718287

IDB-2016-BR-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 2,520 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 day to 28 months old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Mothers of children ages 0-2.5 years of age
• Included in the poverty registry CadastroUnico
• Residents of specific 440 poor microareas of Region V of Fortaleza

Exclusion criteria

• Data will not be collected if parental consent not given.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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2,520 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment:

Experimental group

Description:

Home visiting with PCCSF

Treatment:

Behavioral: Home visiting intervention PCCSF (220 clusters)

Control

Experimental group

Description:

Home visiting no PCCSF

Treatment:

Behavioral: Home visiting without PCCSF (220 clusters)