Effect of the SPRING home visits intervention on early child development and growth in rural India and Pakistan: parallel cluster randomised controlled trials
Abstract
Almost 250 million children fail to achieve their full growth or developmental potential, trapping them in a cycle of continuing disadvantage. Strong evidence exists that parent-focussed face to face interventions can improve developmental outcomes; the challenge is delivering these on a wide scale. SPRING (Sustainable Programme Incorporating Nutrition and Games) aimed to address this by developing a feasible affordable programme of monthly home visits by community-based workers (CWs) and testing two different delivery models at scale in a programmatic setting. In Pakistan, SPRING was embedded into existing monthly home visits of Lady Health Workers (LHWs). In India, it was delivered by a civil society/non-governmental organisation (CSO/NGO) that trained a new cadre of CWs.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jun 19, 2023
- Source ID
- 10.3389/fnut.2023.1155763
Entities
People
- Assad Hafeez
- Atif Rahman
- Betty R. Kirkwood
- Bilal Avan
- Bushra Khan
- Deepali Verma
- Divya Kumar
- Gauri Divan
- Jolene Skordis
- Kamal Kant Sharma
- Lu Gram
- Neha Batura
- Raghu Lingam
- Reetabrata Roy
- Sarmad Aziz
- Satya Narayan Panchal
- Seeba Amenga-etego
- Seyi Soremekun
- Shamsa Zafar
- Siham Sikander
- Sunil S. Bhopal
- Zelee Hill