Trial reportJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2020
Effects of a scalable home-visiting intervention on child development in slums of urban India: evidence from a randomised controlled trial.
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Follow-up of Parenting and Unconditional Cash on Children's Development at Middle Childhood
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Parenting interventions to promote early child development in the first three years of life: A global systematic review and meta-analysis.PLoS medicine · 2021Pooled it
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- Implementing an early childhood development intervention with routine immunization visits in India: a feasibility trial.European journal of pediatrics · 2022Trial
- Promoting mother-infant relationships and underlying neural correlates: Results from a randomized controlled trial of a home-visiting program for adolescent mothers in Brazil.Developmental science · 2021Trial
- Group Sessions or Home Visits for Early Childhood Development in India: A Cluster RCT.Pediatrics · 2020Trial
- Effectiveness and Cultural Adaptation of Parenting Interventions for South Asian Families: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review Using Bernal's Ecological Validity Model.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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- ChildWeCare: An Innovative System for the Surveillance and Care of Early Childhood Development Disorders in Thailand.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Proof of concept of the Universal Baby video innovation for early child development in Lima, Peru.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2025Article
- Effect of a parenting and nutrition education programme on development and growth of children using a social safety-net platform in urban Bangladesh: a cluster randomized controlled trial.The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia · 2024Article
- Parenting Promotes Social Mobility Within and Across Generations.Annual review of economics · 2023Article
- Using lessons learnt from key stakeholders to increase support for scaling the Reach Up Early Childhood Parenting program.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- A scoping review of community-based mental health intervention for children and adolescents in South Asia.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2023Article
- South Indian Children's Neurodevelopmental Outcomes After Group B Streptococcus Invasive Disease: A Matched-Cohort Study.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2022Article
- Matching between maternal knowledge about infant development and care for children under one year old.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2022Article
- Effectiveness of a large-scale home visiting programme (PIM) on early child development in Brazil: quasi-experimental study nested in a birth cohort.BMJ global health · 2022Article
- Cross-cultural research on child development and maternal mental health in low-and middle-income countries.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundAn estimated 63.4 million Indian children under 5 years are at risk of poor development. Home visits that use a structured curriculum to help caregivers enhance the quality of the home stimulation environment improve developmental outcomes. However, achieving effectiveness in poor urban contexts through scalable models remains challenging.
methodsUsing a cluster randomised controlled trial, we evaluated a psychosocial stimulation intervention, comprising weekly home visits for 18 months, in urban slums of Cuttack, Odisha, India. The intervention is complementary to existing early childhood services in India and was run and managed through a local branch of a national NGO. The study ran from August 2013 to July 2015. We enrolled 421 children aged 10-20 months from 54 slums. Slums were randomised to intervention or control. Primary outcomes were children's cognitive, receptive language, expressive language and fine motor development assessed using the Bayley-III. Prespecified intent-to-treat analysis investigated impacts and heterogeneity by gender. TRIAL REGISTRATIONS: ISRCTN89476603, AEARCTR-0000169.
resultsEndline data for 378 (89.8%) children were analysed. Attrition was balanced between groups. We found improvements of 0.349 of a standard deviation (SD; p = .005, stepdown p = .017) to cognition while impacts on receptive language, expressive language and fine motor development were, respectively, 0.224 SD (p = .099, stepdown p = .184), 0.192 SD (p = .085, stepdown p = .184) and 0.111 (p = .385, stepdown p = .385). A child development factor improved by 0.301 SD (p = .032). Benefits were larger for boys. The quality of the home stimulation environment also improved.
conclusionsThis study shows that a potentially scalable home-visiting intervention is effective in poor urban areas.
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