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The problem
Intervention: Nurturing Care for Early Child Development intervention delivered by trained non-specialists, consisting of 15 monthly sessions from third trimester through 12 months postpartum, including early stimulation, learning through play, responsive feeding, guided discovery, behavioural activation and prob
Who it was tested with: Pregnant women aged 18-40 years in third trimester who screened positive for psychological distress (n=250, 125 intervention, 125 control) in rural Pakistan.
Children or communities are compared with a group that did not receive the intervention, or followed over years. This is the design that best separates what the intervention did from everything else that changed.
"Two-arm, single-blinded, individually randomised controlled trial" with "Data were collected at baseline (third trimester), 6 months and 12 months postpartum." This is a rigorous experimental design with randomisation and comparison group measuring multiple outcomes over the postpartum period.
Single-blinded design (participants not blinded); conducted in one rural sub-district limiting generalisability; COVID-19 delayed endpoint assessments by 2 months
Across countries and designs
1 study · 1 country
