Testing Means to Scale Early Childhood Development Interventions in Rural Kenya

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Conditions studied: Early Child Development

In brief

This study aims to experimentally test the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of competing models of delivery of an Early Childhood Development (ECD) intervention in rural Kenya to determine how to maximize their reach to improve child cognitive, language and relevant psychosocial outcomes. The study will also include a longer-term evaluation of sustained impacts; an examination of the pathways of change leading to intervention impacts to inform policy; and examination of the role of paternal involvement on child development. Findings will provide policy makers with rigorous evidence of how best to expand ECD interventions in low-resource rural settings to improve child developmental outcomes for both the short-and longer-term.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03548558

Run by

University of Southern California

People needed

1152

Starts

2018-10-01

Expected to finish

2021-10-15

Last updated by the study team

2023-10-13

Who can join

Age: 15 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Kenyan mothers or equivalent female primary caretakers aged 15 and over with children aged 6-24 months (classified as mature minors)
• Kenyan fathers aged 18 and older with children aged 6-24 months with a mother present
• The unit of observation for the study is the household or family, within which the primary focus is mother-child dyads and household eligibility hinges on the age of the child. For those households with a father present, the study will additionally include him in some analyses and surveys.

You may not qualify if…

• Households without children
• Households with children that are outside the age range of 6-24 months at baseline
• Households with a mother younger than 15 or one aged 15-18 still living with her parents
• Single fathers
• Selection criteria for fathers are based on the mother-child eligibility criteria. Fathers will be included if and when appropriate per the details surrounding the mother-child dyads.

Where it is running

• USC — Los Angeles, California, United States

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