Integrating early stimulation and play at scale: study protocol for "MAHAY Mikolo", a multi-arm cluster-randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hundreds of millions of children living in poverty worldwide are not reaching their full, developmental potential. Programs to promote nurturing and responsive caregiving, such as those in which community health workers (CHWs) conduct home visits to support optimal early childhood development (ECD), have been effective in small trials, but have not achieved similar success at scale. This study will explore two approaches to scale-up: converting a home-visiting model to a group-based model; and integrating the ECD curriculum into an existing government program. The objectives of the study are to: 1) Measure how the integration of ECD activities affects time and task allocation of CHWs and CHW psychosocial wellbeing; 2) Examine how the integration of ECD activities affects

SUBMITTER: Galasso E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8826715 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature