Promoting responsive care and early learning practices in Northern Ghana: results from a counselling intervention within nutrition and health services.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study assesses change in caregiver practices after integrating responsive care and early learning (RCEL) in nutrition and health services and community platforms in northern Ghana.

Design

We trained health facility workers and community health volunteers to deliver RCEL counselling to caregivers of children under 2 years of age through existing health facilities and community groups. We assessed changes in caregivers' RCEL practices before and after the intervention with a household questionnaire and caregiver-child observations.

Setting

The study took place in Sagnarigu, Gushegu, Wa East and Mamprugu-Moagduri districts from April 2022 to March 2023. Study sites included seventy-nine child welfare clinics (CWC) at Ghana Health Service facilities and eig

SUBMITTER: Aidam E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10966855 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature