eprintid: 10151899 rev_number: 8 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/15/18/99 datestamp: 2022-07-12 10:53:41 lastmod: 2022-07-12 10:53:41 status_changed: 2022-07-12 10:53:41 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Mehrin, Syeda Fardina creators_name: Hasan, Mohammed Imrul creators_name: Tofail, Fahmida creators_name: Shiraji, Shamima creators_name: Ridout, Deborah creators_name: Grantham-McGregor, Sally creators_name: Hamadani, Jena D creators_name: Baker-Henningham, Helen title: Integrating a Group-Based, Early Childhood Parenting Intervention Into Primary Health Care Services in Rural Bangladesh: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: G25 divisions: D13 divisions: B02 keywords: Child development, integrating into government services, low- and middle-income countries, malnutrition, parenting, primary health care note: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ abstract: Background: Over 250 million children globally do not reach their developmental potential. We tested whether integrating a group-based, early childhood parenting program into government healthcare clinics improved children's development, growth, and behavior. Methods: We conducted a cluster-randomized controlled trial in 40 community clinics in the Kishorganj district of Bangladesh. We randomly assigned clinics (1:1) to deliver a group-based parenting interventions or to a comparison group that received no intervention. Participants were children aged 5-24 months, with weight-for-age z-score of ≤ -1.5 SDs of the WHO standards, living within a thirty-minute walking distance from the clinic (n = 419 intervention, 366 control). Government health staff facilitated parenting sessions in the clinic with groups of four mother/child dyads fortnightly for one year as part of their routine duties. Primary outcomes measured at baseline and endline were child development assessed using the Bayley scales, child behaviors during the test by tester ratings, and child growth. The trial is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02208531. Findings: 91% of children were tested at endline (396 intervention, 319 control). Multilevel analyses showed significant benefits of intervention to child cognition (effect size 0.85 SDs, 95% CI: 0.59, 1.11), language (0.69 SDs, 0.43, 0.94), and motor development (0.52 SDs, 0.31, 0.73), and to child behaviors during the test (ranging from 0.36 SDs, 0.14, 0.58, to 0.53 SDs, 0.35, 0.71). There were no significant effects on growth. Conclusion: A scalable parenting intervention, integrated into existing government health services and implemented by government health staff, led to significant benefits to child development and behavior. date: 2022-06-10 date_type: published publisher: Frontiers Media SA official_url: https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2022.886542 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1964921 doi: 10.3389/fped.2022.886542 medium: Electronic-eCollection lyricists_name: Ridout, Deborah lyricists_id: DARID75 actors_name: Kalinowski, Damian actors_id: DKALI47 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Frontiers in Pediatrics volume: 10 article_number: 886542 event_location: Switzerland citation: Mehrin, Syeda Fardina; Hasan, Mohammed Imrul; Tofail, Fahmida; Shiraji, Shamima; Ridout, Deborah; Grantham-McGregor, Sally; Hamadani, Jena D; Mehrin, Syeda Fardina; Hasan, Mohammed Imrul; Tofail, Fahmida; Shiraji, Shamima; Ridout, Deborah; Grantham-McGregor, Sally; Hamadani, Jena D; Baker-Henningham, Helen; - view fewer <#> (2022) Integrating a Group-Based, Early Childhood Parenting Intervention Into Primary Health Care Services in Rural Bangladesh: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. Frontiers in Pediatrics , 10 , Article 886542. 10.3389/fped.2022.886542 <https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2022.886542>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10151899/1/Ridout_Integrating%20a%20Group-Based%2C%20Early%20Childhood%20Parenting%20Intervention%20Into%20Primary%20Health%20Care%20Services%20in%20Rural%20Bangladesh_VoR.pdf