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Improve Child Outcomes Through Caregiving in Cambodia

NCT05197985 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 3500

Last updated 2025-04-04

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Summary

This study is a longitudinal, randomized-controlled study with a stepped-wedge research design. The Integrated Early Childhood Development Activity (IECD) will implement interventions in three cohorts of villages sequentially across two provinces of Cambodia, Kampong Thom and Preah Vihear. IECD will collect data from all three cohorts together, four times, at 12-month intervals: a baseline prior to any program intervention, a Cohort 1 end line, a Cohort 2 end line and a Cohort 3 end line. IECD's Theory of Change is that by changing caregivers' practices in rearing their children under age 5, those children will demonstrate improvements in child development outcomes. The investigators will use 6 instruments to collect this data, including well-established internationally validated measures. The IECD team enrolled 1,790 households in Preah Vihear and Kampong Thom in June and July 2021. The study will be competed in 2025.

Conditions

  • Child Development

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

IECD Intervention

The Nurturing Care curriculum contains: 1) responsive caregiving, 2) the important role everyone plays in raising a child, 3) maternal health and nutrition, 4) responsive feeding and good nutrition, 5) how children grow and develop, 6) hygiene, 7) language development, 8) the importance of play, 9) managing the stress of parenting, 10) protecting your child from harm. Modules will be delivered through group sessions for caregivers, individualized home visits and Social Behavior Change Communication. IECD will build families' capacity to grow and raise healthy food to consume themselves, and connect them to agricultural markets. Specifically, IECD will provide agriculture technical training to Village Model Farms and households, and will facilitate linkages to markets by identifying buyers and connecting them to the farmers. IECD will train and support volunteers to conduct disability screening, and train disability interventionists to provide appropriate therapies and support services.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

    collaborator FED

  • RTI International

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-06-15
Primary Completion
2025-01-26
Completion
2025-01-26

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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