Maternal time investment in caregiving activities to promote early childhood development: evidence from rural India.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Intervention strategies that seek to improve early childhood development outcomes are often targeted at the primary caregivers of children, usually mothers. The interventions require mothers to assimilate new information and then act upon it by allocating sufficient physical resources and time to adopt and perform development promoting behaviours. However, women face many competing demands on their resources and time, returning to familiar habits and behaviours. In this study, we explore mothers' allocation of time for caregiving activities for children under the age of 2, nested within a cluster randomised controlled trial of a nutrition and care for development intervention in rural Haryana, India.

Methods

We collected quantitative maternal time use data at tw

SUBMITTER: Batura N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10360126 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature