Measurement tools and indicators for assessing nurturing care for early childhood development: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT: Nurturing care encompasses five components that are crucial for supporting early childhood development: good health, adequate nutrition, opportunities for early learning, responsive caregiving, and safety and security. While there has been increasing attention in global public health towards designing and delivering programs, services, and policies to promote nurturing care, measurement has focused more on the components of health and nutrition, with less attention to early learning, responsive caregiving, and safety and security. We conducted a scoping review to identify articles that measured at least one nurturing care outcome in a sample of caregivers and/or children under-5 years of age in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We systematically searched five electronic bibliograph

SUBMITTER: Jeong J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021181 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature