Building Community Health Volunteers' Capacity to Support Parents With Young Children With SafeCare Kenya

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to implement and examine the impact of SafeCare Kenya, an adapted parenting program, to improve parents' skills and knowledge related to the care of their children between the ages of 18 months and 5 years old. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Will SafeCare Kenya improve child and parent outcomes?
* Is virtual delivery as effective as in-person delivery of SafeCare Kenya?
* Is SafeCare Kenya feasible to deliver by community health volunteers?

Mothers will:

* Complete study assessments at three timepoints: baseline, 6 months and 18 months
* Mothers in the SafeCare Kenya group will receive the program from their community health volunteer

Researchers will compare SafeCare Kenya to care as usual by community health volunteers to see if SafeCare Kenya families show improvements in parent interaction skills, safety and health knowledge, potential for child abuse, child behavior problems, child injuries, parenting stress, and child and parent quality of life.

Conditions

• Child Maltreatment
• Parenting

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

SafeCare Kenya

Adapted from SafeCare, this is a strengths-based program for parents with children ages 18 months through age 5, teaching parents skills and knowledge in three areas: 1) parent-child interactions, 2) child health, and 3) home safety.

OTHER

Care as Usual by Community Health Volunteers

Community Health Volunteers support families with children up to age 5 around the physical health needs of family members, including delivering key health messages (e.g., importance of immunizations); treating minor injuries and illnesses; identifying/treating/referring common childhood illnesses (e.g., diarrhea, malaria); conducting home visits to evaluate the home environment and discuss improvements; and encouraging care at home and appropriate health seeking behaviors. These support services are not highly structured but rather tailored to the needs of each family.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

  collaborator NIH

• Georgia State University

  collaborator OTHER

• Africa Institute of Mental and Brain Health

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Pacific University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Jenelle R. Shanley, PhD · Pacific University

• David Ndetei, MD · Africa Institute of Mental and Brain Health

• Lisa P. Armistead, PhD · Georgia State University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-03-14

Primary Completion

2028-01-31

Completion

2028-05-31

Countries

• Kenya

Study Locations