A factorial cluster-randomised controlled trial combining home-environmental and early child development interventions to improve child health and development: rationale, trial design and baseline findings.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Exposure to unhealthy environments and inadequate child stimulation are main risk factors that affect children's health and wellbeing in low- and middle-income countries. Interventions that simultaneously address several risk factors at the household level have great potential to reduce these negative effects. We present the design and baseline findings of a cluster-randomised controlled trial to evaluate the impact of an integrated home-environmental intervention package and an early child development programme to improve diarrhoea, acute respiratory infections and childhood developmental outcomes in children under 36 months of age living in resource-limited rural Andean Peru.

Methods

We collected baseline data on children's developmental performance, health stat

SUBMITTER: Hartinger SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7115072 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature