scholarly journals A responsive parenting intervention: The optimal timing across early childhood for impacting maternal behaviors and child outcomes.

2008 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 1335-1353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan H. Landry ◽  
Karen E. Smith ◽  
Paul R. Swank ◽  
Cathy Guttentag
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Child Outcomes ◽  
Parenting Intervention ◽  
Optimal Timing ◽  
Responsive Parenting ◽  
Maternal Behaviors

scholarly journals Optimal timing of antenatal corticosteroid administration and preterm neonatal and early childhood outcomes

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 100077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley N. Battarbee ◽  
Stephanie T. Ros ◽  
M. Sean Esplin ◽  
Joseph Biggio ◽  
Radek Bukowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Optimal Timing ◽  
Antenatal Corticosteroid ◽  
Corticosteroid Administration ◽  
Early Childhood Outcomes

Impact Study: Early Education use and Child Outcomes up to Age 5

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 414-417
Author(s):  
David Hancock
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Early Education ◽  
Child Outcomes ◽  
Impact Study ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Children's Development ◽  
Children’S Development

There is evidence to suggest that early childhood education and care has a significant impact on children's development. A recent report on the subject has revealed some interesting conclusions about the link between settings and outcomes

scholarly journals INSIGHT responsive parenting intervention is associated with healthier patterns of dietary exposures in infants

Obesity ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily E. Hohman ◽  
Ian M. Paul ◽  
Leann L. Birch ◽  
Jennifer S. Savage
Keyword(s):  
Parenting Intervention ◽  
Responsive Parenting

Family Impacts on the Development of the Child

1995 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Edgar
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Child Development ◽  
Child Outcomes

I argue in this paper for a “cultural” view of child development rather than a psychological one: for a broader but more carefully specified approach to the measurement of “child outcomes” than is often apparent in the early childhood literature.

The effects of a responsive parenting intervention on parent–child interactions during shared book reading.

2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 969-986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan H. Landry ◽  
Karen E. Smith ◽  
Paul R. Swank ◽  
Tricia Zucker ◽  
April D. Crawford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parenting Intervention ◽  
Book Reading ◽  
Shared Book Reading ◽  
Responsive Parenting ◽  
Parent Child Interactions ◽  
Parent Child

Early childhood education quality and child outcomes in China: Evidence from Zhejiang Province

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 427-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kejian Li ◽  
Yi Pan ◽  
Biying Hu ◽  
Margaret Burchinal ◽  
Allison De Marco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Child Outcomes ◽  
Zhejiang Province ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Childhood Education

scholarly journals Cost-effectiveness and economic returns of group-based parenting interventions to promote early childhood development: Results from a randomized controlled trial in rural Kenya

PLoS Medicine ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. e1003746
Author(s):  
Italo Lopez Garcia ◽  
Uzaib Y. Saya ◽  
Jill E. Luoto
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Early Childhood Development ◽  
Parenting Intervention ◽  
Childhood Development ◽  
Opportunity Costs ◽  
Societal Costs ◽  
Delivery Model ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Benefit Cost

Background Early childhood development (ECD) programs can help address disadvantages for the 43% of children under 5 in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) experiencing compromised development. However, very few studies from LMIC settings include information on their program’s cost-effectiveness or potential returns to investment. We estimated the cost-effectiveness, benefit–cost ratios (BCRs), and returns on investment (ROIs) for 2 effective group-based delivery models of an ECD parenting intervention that utilized Kenya’s network of local community health volunteers (CHVs). Methods and findings Between October 1 and November 12, 2018, 1,152 mothers with children aged 6 to 24 months were surveyed from 60 villages in rural western Kenya. After baseline, villages were randomly assigned to one of 3 intervention arms: a group-only delivery model with 16 fortnightly sessions, a mixed-delivery model combining 12 group sessions with 4 home visits, and a control group. At endline (August 5 to October 31, 2019), 1,070 children were retained and assessed for primary outcomes including cognitive and receptive language development (with the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, Third Edition) and socioemotional development (with the Wolke scale). Children in the 2 intervention arms showed better developmental outcomes than children in the control arm, although the group-only delivery model generally had larger effects on children. Total program costs included provider’s implementation costs collected during the intervention period using financial reports from the local nongovernmental organization (NGO) implementer, as well as societal costs such as opportunity costs to mothers and delivery agents. We combined program impacts with these total costs to estimate incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs), as well as BCRs and the program’s ROI for the government based on predictions of future lifetime wages and societal costs. Total costs per child were US$140 in the group-only arm and US$145 in the mixed-delivery arm. Because of higher intention-to-treat (ITT) impacts at marginally lower costs, the group-only model was the most cost-effective across all child outcomes. Focusing on child cognition in this arm, we estimated an ICER of a 0.37 standard deviation (SD) improvement in cognition per US$100 invested, a BCR of 15.5, and an ROI of 127%. A limitation of our study is that our estimated BCR and ROI necessarily make assumptions about the discount rate, income tax rates, and predictions of intervention impacts on future wages and schooling. We examine the sensitivity of our results to these assumptions. Conclusions To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first economic evaluation of an effective ECD parenting intervention targeted to young children in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the first to adopt a societal perspective in calculating cost-effectiveness that accounts for opportunity costs to delivery agents and program participants. Our cost-effectiveness and benefit–cost estimates are higher than most of the limited number of prior studies from LMIC settings providing information about costs. Our results represent a strong case for scaling similar interventions in impoverished rural settings, and, under reasonable assumptions about the future, demonstrate that the private and social returns of such investments are likely to largely outweigh their costs. Trial registration This trial is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03548558, June 7, 2018. American Economic Association RCT Registry trial AEARCTR-0002913.

scholarly journals Measuring the Quality of Early Childhood Education in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Si Chen ◽  
Sharon Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Child Outcomes ◽  
High Income ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Limited Evidence ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Low And Middle Income

Young children’s access to early childhood education (ECE) is increasing in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), though often without attention to service quality. Monitoring quality requires classroom observations, but most observation tools available were developed in high-income western countries. In this article, we examine key issues in measuring ECE quality in LMICs and consider challenges and opportunities in balancing theoretical grounding, cultural- and contextual-adaptation, and empirical rigor. We then review the literature on observed classroom quality in LMICs, focusing on process quality. We find limited evidence that the constructs identified in high-income countries replicate in LMICs. Further, the very limited evidence that ECE quality measures used in LMICs predict child outcomes is almost exclusively cross-sectional and associations are mixed. We conclude by discussing how future research can build a stronger knowledge base about ECE quality and child development globally.

scholarly journals Sleep SAAF: a responsive parenting intervention to prevent excessive weight gain and obesity among African American infants

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin A. Lavner ◽  
Brian K. Stansfield ◽  
Steven R. H. Beach ◽  
Gene H. Brody ◽  
Leann L. Birch
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Parenting Intervention ◽  
Excessive Weight Gain ◽  
Responsive Parenting ◽  
Excessive Weight
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