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Evaluation of the Home Visiting Pilot Program on Early Childhood Outcomes in Fortaleza Brazil

NCT02718287 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2520

Last updated 2016-03-30

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This is a cluster-randomized study of a home visiting program targeting mothers of children 0 to 2.5 years of age with the objective of improving global child development. The program, Programa Cresça com Seu Filho (PCCSF), will be randomized across 220 microareas in the poorest Region (V) of the state of Fortaleza, Brazil.

Conditions

  • Child Development

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Home visiting intervention PCCSF (220 clusters)

Low income mothers of children 0-2.5 years of age in the randomized treatment micro-areas will receive home visits by community health workers trained in the PCCSF curriculum in addition to the basic health curriculum. The community health workers are supervised by trained and experienced nurses.

BEHAVIORAL

Home visiting without PCCSF (220 clusters)

Low income mothers of children 0-2.5 years of age in the randomized control micro-areas will receive home visits by community health workers trained in the standard basic health curriculum (no PCCSF).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Municipal Secretary of Health, Fortaleza Brasil

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Universidade Federal do Ceara

    collaborator OTHER

  • Inter-American Development Bank

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Florencia Lopez Boo, Ph.D. · Inter-American Development Bank

  • Cristiana Ferreira da Silva, Ph.D. · Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Fortaleza

  • Marcia Rocha, M.A. · Inter-American Development Bank

  • Suzanne Duryea, P.h.D. · Inter-American Development Bank

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
1 Day
Max Age
28 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-03-31
Primary Completion
2017-10-31
Completion
2017-10-31

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