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The problem
Intervention: None evaluated; this is an observational study examining natural associations between caregiver trauma exposure, mental health, and parenting behaviours
Who it was tested with: 732 caregivers of children aged 6-36 months in extremely poor rural households in Rwanda.
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 use longitudinal data from a unique sample of 732 caregivers of children aged 6-36 months living in extremely poor rural households in Rwanda to examine associations of caregiver lifetime trauma, recent daily hardships, mental health, and emotion dysregulation with parenting behaviours." The study documents natural associations in a vulnerable population rather than testing an intervention, so it provides observational evidence at the practitioner tier about how trauma affects parenting.
This is an observational study that cannot determine causal pathways or test interventions. The cross-sectional associations do not prove that trauma causes poor parenting, though longitudinal design provides some temporal ordering for some variables.
Across countries and designs
27 studies · 24 countries
