Preventing maltreatment in institutional care: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in East Africa.

ABSTRACT: An increasing number of orphans in low- and middle-income countries are living in institutional care facilities where they experience poor quality of care and ongoing maltreatment. To prevent maltreatment, we tested the effectiveness and feasibility of the intervention Interaction Competencies with Children - for Caregivers (ICC-C). In a two-arm cluster-randomized controlled trial, 203 caregivers (65.5% female, M_age  = 36.63 years, SD_age  = 12.26) and 356 children (46.1% female, M_age  = 9.43 years, SD_age  = 1.93) from 24 orphanages in Dar es salaam (Tanzania) participated from August to October 2018 (Baseline) and March to April 2019 (Follow-Up). Orphanages were assigned to the intervention or waitlist-group. Ca

SUBMITTER: Hecker T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8683896 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature