ArticleMaternal & child nutrition2022
Child diet and mother-child interactions mediate intervention effects on child growth and development.
Article in Maternal & child nutrition, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Strengthening Early Childhood Development Programs and Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Systematic Review of Interventions.Maternal & child nutrition · 2026Pooled it
- Understanding modifiable caregiver factors contributing to child development among young children in rural Malawi.Maternal & child nutrition · 2024Trial
- Mechanisms of Change Underlying Effects of an Early Parenting Intervention on Child Development Among Vulnerable Families in Rwanda.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Assessing the associations between public works participation, household water and sanitation conditions, and child nutrition in Southern Madagascar: a mediation analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The impact of an integrated nurturing care intervention to improve early childhood development outcomes in Nampula Province, Mozambique.Public health nutrition · 2025Article
- A predictive model for stunting among children under the age of three.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- Child diet and mother-child interactions mediate intervention effects on child growth and development.Maternal & child nutrition · 2022Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
This study examined whether child diet and mother-child interactions mediated the effects of a responsive stimulation and nutrition intervention delivered from 2009 to 2012 to 1324 children aged 0-24 months living in rural Pakistan. Results showed that the intervention improved children's cognitive, language and motor development through child diet and mother-child interactions. Although the intervention did not improve child growth or socio-emotional development, we observed positive indirect effects on child growth via child diet and on socio-emotional development via both child diet and mother-child interactions. In addition, child diet emerged as a shared mechanism to improve both child growth and development, whereas mother-child interactions emerged as a distinct mechanism to improve child development. Nevertheless, our results suggest the two mechanisms were mutually reinforcing and that interventions leveraging both mechanisms are likely to be more effective at improving child outcomes than interventions leveraging only one of these mechanisms.
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