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ECD Newborn Parenting Education Program

NCT06572254 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 400

Last updated 2024-08-27

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Summary

Early childhood development: specifically the first 1000 days of life are of crucial importance. It sets the trajectory for the future and transgenerational health. Life of a neonate is influenced by several factors of which responsive caregiving is one of the most imperative facets. In the earliest days of life, the role of responsive caregiving is vital for the child's growing brain. Interactions between the primary caregiver and the neonate in early infancy period foster social and cognitive growth, build trust, provide sense of security, and helps build brain of the young child. In resource constraints areas, particularly in primary health care settings, there is a lack of initiatives to support responsive caregiving. The investigators intend to do an implementation adaptation and assessment of impact and efficacy of early childhood newborn parenting education program at primary health care facilities of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Investigators already have a structured program at our tertiary health care setting, with this project, investigators now intend to adapt it to primary care settings of Aga Khan Health Services Pakistan and Afghanistan a) explore the impact of newborn parenting education program on parental outcomes b) conduct training for health care providers and asses their pre-post knowledge and skills and c) explore systems readiness to scale up this program at national level. The expected outcome of this research is to build a proof of concept of this intervention in primary healthcare settings and disseminate its findings for a national level scale up and to advocate the importance of it to the government sector, civil society organization and funding agencies.

Conditions

  • Parenting

Interventions

OTHER

Early Childhood Development Newborn Parenting Education Program

Investigators will be adapting the model used here at the tertiary care of newborn parenting which investogators have developed based on the nurturing care framework and keys to the caregiving framework. Both models have shown reliable evidence of their effectiveness.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Global Affairs Canada

    collaborator OTHER

  • Aga Khan Health Services

    collaborator OTHER

  • Aga Khan University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sarah Saleem, FCPS · Aga Khan University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-01-01
Primary Completion
2024-12-31
Completion
2025-03-31

Countries

  • Afghanistan
  • Pakistan

Study Locations

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