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The problem
Intervention: None - this is an observational comparison study
Who it was tested with: 1,000 children aged 7-14 years in Delhi slums, divided into child labour and school-going groups from similar socioeconomic backgrounds.
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.
"The tool was applied to children in Delhi (n=1000) in the slums over a group of school going and child labour children between the ages of 7-14 years. Strong positive association between working children status and difficulty score was established (p<.001)." The study compared two groups on a standardized measure of psychological difficulty, establishing statistical association but with minimal practical difference in actual scores.
Cross-sectional design cannot establish causation. Both groups experience similar social problems in slum settings, confounding the independent effect of labour. The similar mean scores suggest unmeasured shared environmental factors may be more influential than labour status itself.
Across countries and designs
5 studies · 5 countries
