Impact of the Korea Early Childhood Home-visiting Intervention (KECHI) on child health and development and maternal health: a randomised controlled trial protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of early childhood home-visiting interventions led by nurses have been conducted mainly in Western countries, whereas such trials have been limited in non-Western cultures, including Asia. In South Korea, a national nurse home visit programme (Korea Early Childhood Home-visiting Intervention (KECHI)) was developed in 2020 and launched throughout the country. We designed a pragmatic RCT to evaluate the effectiveness of KECHI on child health and development and maternal health.

Methods and analysis

Eligible participants will be pregnant women at <37 weeks of gestation with risk factor scores of 2 or over, who are sufficiently fluent in Korean to read and answer the questionnaire written in Korean and live in districts where the

SUBMITTER: Khang YH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11404167 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature