A year-long caregiver training program improves cognition in preschool Ugandan children with human immunodeficiency virus.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate mediational intervention for sensitizing caregivers (MISC). MISC biweekly caregiver training significantly enhanced child development compared with biweekly training on health and nutrition (active control) and to evaluate whether MISC training improved the emotional well-being of the caregivers compared with controls.

Study design

Sixty of 120 rural Ugandan preschool child/caregiver dyads with HIV were assigned by randomized clusters to biweekly MISC training, alternating between home and clinic for 1 year. Control dyads received a health and nutrition curriculum. Children were evaluated at baseline, 6 months, and 1 year with the Mullen Early Learning Scales and the Color-Object Association Test for memory. Caldwell Home Observation for Measurement of

SUBMITTER: Boivin MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3812379 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature