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The problem
Intervention: Capacity building training programme for home visitors covering early child development topics including attachment, developmental monitoring, age-appropriate play, postpartum depression screening, engaging fathers, home safety, and stigma reduction; delivered as interactive face-to-face sessions an
Who it was tested with: 150 home visitors from 25 primary health centres in Serbia; they subsequently worked with 14,912 families including 34.5% from socially deprived 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.
"Training were organized as interactive face to face sessions and online courses and attendees were actively engaged in reflection. Comprehensive check list with various assessment instruments was developed to provide guidance to home visitors in implementation of gained skills." The evaluation tracked knowledge gains through formal assessment and measured practice changes through home visitor observations of families, establishing a before-after comparison of outcomes.
No comparison group to attribute improvements to the intervention alone; outcomes rely on observational assessments by visiting nurses without independent verification; follow-up beyond 2 years not reported
Across countries and designs
1 study · 1 country
