Building the capacity for early childhood parenting programmes
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Milestones
Evidence to impact over 30 years - our journey!
Participants:
Children living in suburban communities of Kingston
Intervention:
1 hour play sessions at home for 8 months
Results:
Significant Benefits to DQ**
Participants:
Severely malnourished children
Intervention:
1 hour daily play session in hospital. Home visits 1 hour per week for 2 years then 1 hour biweekly for 1 year
Results:
Significant Benefits to DQ
Participants:
Children from the inner city
Intervention:
Home visits 1 hour per month for 2 years or 1 hour biweekly for two years
Results:
Biweekly group had benefits to DQ. Monthly group had no significant benefits.
Participants:
Low birth weight children
Intervention:
Home visits 1 hour per week for 8 weeks after birth
Results:
Intervened group had better problem solving scores at 7 months
Participants:
Undernourished children
Intervention:
Home visits for 30 minutes per week for 12 months.
Results:
The intervened children had higher DQs.
Participants:
Undernourished children
Intervention:
Group meetings for 1 hour per week for 10 months and 1 hour every 2 weeks for 2 months and home visits weekly for 12 months.
Results:
There was a benefit to children’s Bayley Scales Mental Development Index (MDI)
Participants:
Severely malnourished children
Intervention:
Group meetings for 30 mins and individual session for 2 weeks in hospital. Home visits or clinic visits for 6 months
Results:
Children in the intervened group had significant benefits on mental score and motor score.
Participants:
Severely malnourished children, randomized to 4 groups (stimulation only, supplementation only, stimulation and supplementation and control).
Intervention:
Play sessions for 1 hour in clinic biweekly for 6 months
Results:
Stimulation alone or with supplementation improved Bayley Scales MDI.
Participants:
Children with iron-deficiency anaemia
Intervention:
Weekly home visits for 9 months
Results:
Non-anemic intervened group improved more than the non-anemic controls in MDI. The IDA intervened children did not improve significantly.
Participants:
Children from low socio-economic environments, randomized to 4 groups (stimulation only, supplementation only, stimulation and supplementation and control).
Intervention:
Home visits 1 hour per week for 18 months
Results:
Intervened children’s cognition and language showed improvements
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PROF. SUSAN WALKER