Responsive Parenting Program for Infants in Rural Bangladesh

McGill University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Child Development

Treatments: Behavioral: Child Development; Behavioral: Responsive parenting

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01466933

REB#420-0510

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 474 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 14 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• mother has a child 6 to 14 months of age
• mother willing to learn about child care

Exclusion criteria

• not severely disabled

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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474 participants in 3 patient groups

Community-based

Experimental group

Description:

Community trained peer educator delivers parenting sessions to mothers in the village on a monthly basis

Treatment:

Behavioral: Responsive parenting

Government-based

Active Comparator group

Description:

Government community health workers, trained, deliver the intervention to mothers in the village

Treatment:

Behavioral: Child Development

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Mothers receive the standard care which is a visit from the health worker