The effects of home visiting on mother-child interactions: Evidence from a randomized trial using dynamic micro-level data

Effect of early childhood development interventions delivered by healthcare providers to improve cognitive outcomes in children at 0–36 months: a systematic review and meta-analysis

“…After assessing inclusion and exclusion criteria, 97 papers reporting on 42 trials were included in the narrative synthesis, of which 27 trials were included in the meta-analyses (online supplemental appendix 5). 15 35–130 Online supplemental appendix 3 displays the outcomes and scales reported by each study and those included in the meta-analyses. Online supplemental appendix 6 shows the ongoing studies.…”

“…Of the 42 trials, 38 were individual RCTs,37 38 44–49 54–77 79–122 124–129 and 4 were cluster RCTs15 35 36 39–43 50–53 78 123 130 (table 2). Thirty-three trials were conducted in HICs44–49 54–67 69–77 79–97 100 103 105–108 111–119 121 122 125 126 128 and eight were conducted in LMICs (Pakistan, Bangladesh, South Africa, Columbia, Jamaica, Brazil, India and Zambia) 15 35–38 41–43 50–53 68 78 96 98 99 101 102 104 109 110 120 123 124 127 129 130…”

Home-visiting Parenting Programs to Improve Mother-Infant Interactions at Early Ages: A Systematic Review

“…The periodicity of interventions was weekly in six studies (Ammerman et al, 2022;Barone et al, 2020;Berlin et al, 2018;Harden et al, 2021;Hepworth et al, 2020;Pasalich et al, 2019) and monthly in four studies (Alvarenga et al, 2019;Alvarenga et al, 2021;Chung et al, 2018;Kristensen et al, 2020). The remaining studies had a variable periodicity during the program, such as weekly-biweekly-monthly during 24 months of the infants' age (Alarcão et al, 2021;Conti et al, 2021); weekly-biweekly-monthly from pregnancy to six months of postpartum (Christodoulou et al, 2019;Tomlinson et al, 2020); weekly-monthly from six days to four months (Vargas-Porras et al, 2021); every two-to-three weeks during nine months (Firk et al, 2020); and one session two days after birth, one session one week after birth, and another session four weeks later (Høifødt et al, 2020).…”

Early childhood inequalities

“…Ermisch, 2008;Kiernan and Mensah, 2011;Pinquart, 2017;Doepke, Sorrenti and Zilibotti, 2019;Madigan et al, 2019). We know that strengthening parent-child interactions, through play and stronger attachment, reaps positive benefits, and while parenting programmes differ in the extent to which they emphasise different aspects of parenting, some evidence pertains to stimulation and play interactions (Jeong et al, 2021), with prominent examples including 'Reach Up and Learn' in developing countries (Grantham-McGregor et al, 1991) and the 'Pro Kind' programme in Germany (Conti et al, 2021). Other research considers broader parental tools and strategies for improving the quality of interactions with their children, such as peer-led parenting programmes 'Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities' in the UK demonstrating, using experimental methods, significant increases in parental competencies and reductions in child behavioural problems (Day et al, 2012).…”