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The problem
Intervention: Parental training programmes that encourage parental engagement through activities such as reading, storytelling and singing with children
Who it was tested with: Families with children under 5 years of age in rural China (13,766 children across 10 studies).
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"We conducted a systematic review and a meta-analysis to investigate the prevalence of early developmental delays and stimulating parenting practices as well as the effect of parental training programmes on child development outcomes in rural China... Parental training programmes had a positive impact on child cognition, language and social-emotional development." This is an experimental design using meta-analysis to synthesise evidence from multiple intervention studies with the goal of estimating the pooled effect of parental training programmes.
The meta-analysis synthesises studies of potentially varying quality and the document does not specify effect sizes or confidence intervals for the outcomes. Details on programme heterogeneity and which specific components are most effective are not provided.
Across countries and designs
2 studies · 1 country
Confirmed by a peer reviewer
A reviewer checked the classification against the source.
claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 · synth-v1
