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Filter by:The PLAYshop program is a novel, brief, theory-based, parent-focused physical literacy intervention designed to address this major public health issue of childhood physical inactivity and to support families. Primary Research Question: Does the PLAYshop program increase preschool-aged children's physical literacy, including fundamental movement skills and motivation and enjoyment, compared to controls?
This study is a longitudinal, randomized-controlled study with a stepped-wedge research design. The Integrated Early Childhood Development Activity (IECD) will implement interventions in three cohorts of villages sequentially across two provinces of Cambodia, Kampong Thom and Preah Vihear. IECD will collect data from all three cohorts together, four times, at 12-month intervals: a baseline prior to any program intervention, a Cohort 1 end line, a Cohort 2 end line and a Cohort 3 end line. IECD's Theory of Change is that by changing caregivers' practices in rearing their children under age 5, those children will demonstrate improvements in child development outcomes. The investigators will use 6 instruments to collect this data, including well-established internationally validated measures. The IECD team enrolled 1,790 households in Preah Vihear and Kampong Thom in June and July 2021. The study will be competed in 2025.
Objectives: - To asses the feasibility and acceptability of a culturally adapted manual assisted brief psychological intervention (CMAP) plus Learning through Play (LTP) for refugee mothers with history of self-harm having children 0-33 months. (Integrated intervention called CMAP Plus) - To assess if CMAP Plus will reduce the repetition of self-harm in refugee mothers having children aged between 0-33 months. - To determine if the intervention improves infant development and maternal attachment. - To explore participants experiences with the intervention. Study design and setting: This will be a feasibility cluster randomized control trial (cRCT) of culturally adapted CMAP Plus LTP intervention with refugee mothers from Quetta and Peshawar, Pakistan. Sample size: We aim to recruit a sample of 80 refugee mothers in the study.
Executive functions are cognitive processes that have been frequently related to adequate academic performance in the scientific literature. Current research aimed at training executive functions has found promising results using the modern board game as a cognitive tool in children. Considering the growing interest of teachers in this playful and possibly educational and cognitive resource, a game program for cognitive purposes has been designed to be used in primary classrooms. The main objective of the present study is to test the efficacy of a cognitive training program in the classroom based on modern board games in primary school students from ordinary schools (6 to 12 years old). For this, there will be an experimental group that will carry out the game program "Conectar Jugando" in the classroom implemented by the teachers of the participating centers, and a control group that will be on standby and will be compensated by carrying out the game program at the finalize the post-intervention evaluation. The classes of each school stage will be randomly assigned to an experimental group and a passive control group in each of the participating schools.
Children exposed to HIV in-utero but uninfected (CHEUs) number 14.8 million globally. In Zambia, an estimated 56,000 CHEUs are born annually, a staggering fraction of the national birth cohort. Multiple studies establish that CHEUs are more neurodevelopmentally vulnerable than HIV-unexposed peers. In Zambia, there are existing effective early childhood developmental (ECD) interventions that target other vulnerable populations, but never trialed specifically for CHEUs. Scaling up ECD is now a priority of Zambia's national strategy, but CHEUs are not currently targeted. There is a need to better understand the scope and mechanism of CHEU-related neurodevelopmental differences and what interventions are most effective. This randomized clinical trial (RCT) is a true effectiveness trial as the intervention will deploy a home-based adaptation of the same curriculum that is currently used elsewhere in the country, named Scaling Up Early Childhood Development In Zambia (SUPERCDZ). The effectiveness of a scalable early childhood development (ECD) intervention for CHEUs will be evaluated using normalized Z-scores of neurodevelopmental testing at age 24 months. In this RCT the investigators will test the following hypotheses: Hypothesis 1: An ECD intervention delivered by community health workers via bi-weekly home visits will improve neurodevelopmental outcomes in CHEUs. Hypothesis 2: CHEUs have significantly worse neurodevelopmental outcomes than unexposed peers at 24 months, mediated by preterm birth, disease stage or antiretroviral (ARV) exposure. This RCT will build on an existent, actively recruiting cohort of 1500 pregnant women-infant dyads in a peri-urban hospital in Zambia, the Zambian Infant Cohort Study (ZICS), by extending the follow-up of a subsample of infants from 6 months to 2 years amongst the last 525 children enrolled (ZICS-BOOST- Brains Optimized to Survive and Thrive). The study will have three arms: Arm 1) CHEU + ECD intervention (n=175); Arm 2) CHEU without ECD intervention (n=175); Arm 3) HUU without intervention (n=175).
This randomized controlled study aims to investigate the effects of an intervention targeting parental reminiscing style on preschoolers' memory (i.e., episodic and autobiographical) and metacognition (i.e., confidence judgment and memorability-based heuristic).
This longitudinal study will evaluate if increased caregiver awareness of their own ACEs through provider-led discussions will lead to improved child health via fewer emergency department, urgent care visits and missed primary care appointments.
Maternal and early childhood home visits have been proposed as an effective strategy to improve the health and development of disadvantaged children. In South Korea (hereafter, Korea), a maternal and early childhood home visit program has been implemented since 2013 in Seoul, and then was adopted in 2019 by the central government as a national policy for child health and development. The Korea Early Childhood Home-visiting Intervention (KECHI) encompasses 25-29 home visits, group activities, and community service linkage by social workers from the prenatal period until the child reaches the age of 2 years; as such, it is a complex intervention involving various domains to address a wide range of outcomes. Each home visit is implemented based on the family's needs, and individualized interventions are provided to improve parenting and the home environment in order to promote children's health and development and maternal health. This study is a randomized controlled community trial conducted in Korea to examine the impact of targeted home visits led by nurses in the prenatal and early childhood period on children's health and development and maternal health. This study is a superiority trial with two parallel groups from pregnancy until the child reaches 2 years of age. Pregnant women with two or more risk factors will be recruited to participate in the study after they provide informed consent. Participants will then be randomly assigned to the intervention or control group with a 1:1 allocation through an independent web-based random allocation system. We expect a total of 800 families (400 families in each group) to be recruited. The intervention group will receive the KECHI program and the control group will receive existing maternal and child health services (usual care), but not multiple home visits by nurses. Both groups will receive gift cards of 30,000 Korean won (about 27 USD) for each round of surveys. The intervention and control groups will be surveyed on the outcome variables of home environment, child development, breastfeeding, maternal health, child hospital visits due to injuries, and community service linkage at four home visits by trained research nurses at baseline and at 6 months, 12 months, and 24 months after birth. Telephone contact will also be made at 6 weeks and 18 months after birth for both groups. Outcome measurements will be performed by research nurses and data management will be conducted by statistical analysts. The analysis will be conducted for the intention-to-treat (ITT) and per-protocol (PP) groups, with an interim analysis of outcomes up to the 6-month follow-up. For the primary outcomes and certain secondary outcomes, subgroup analyses will be performed based on factors such as region, fertility status, number of risk factors, presence of depression, education level, etc.
The Southampton Women's Survey was established to assess the influence of factors operating before conception and during pregnancy on the health and development of the offspring. 12,583 non-pregnant young women were recruited, and 3,158 were followed through pregnancy, with their offspring followed-up at 6 months and 1, 2, 3, 4, 6-7, 8-9 and 12-13 years. The 17-19 year follow-up has been piloted and is about to start.
The purpose of this study is to advance the scientific understanding of how a prenatal COVID-19 infection and associated psychological distress influences infant neurodevelopment. This project will aim to shed light on how families and child development are impacted by the current COVID-19 pandemic and will work to better support these families and children as they grow.