@article {222, title = {Evaluation of an early childhood parenting programme in rural Bangladesh.}, journal = {J Health Popul Nutr}, volume = {25}, year = {2007}, month = {2007 Mar}, pages = {3-13}, abstract = {

To promote physical and mental development of children, parenting education programmes in developing countries focus on specific practices such as age-appropriate responsive stimulation and feeding. A programme delivered to groups of poor mothers of children, aged less than three years, in rural Bangladesh was evaluated using an intervention-control post-test design. Mothers (n=170) who had attended a year of educational sessions and their children were compared with those (n=159) from neighbouring villages who did not have access to such a programme. After covariates were controlled, the parenting mothers obtained higher scores on a test of child-rearing knowledge and on the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) inventory of stimulation. The parenting mothers did not communicate differently with their children while doing a picture-talking task, and children did not show benefits in nutritional status or language comprehension. Parenting sessions offered by peer educators were informative and participatory, yet they need to include more practice, problem-solving, and peer-support if information is to be translated into behaviour.

}, keywords = {Adult, Bangladesh, Child Development, Child, Preschool, Female, Health Behavior, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Health Promotion, Humans, Intervention Studies, Male, Mothers, Parenting, Parents, Program Evaluation, Social Support}, issn = {1606-0997}, url = {https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3013259/}, author = {Aboud, F. E.} } @inbook {5471, title = {Very Early Childhood Development}, booktitle = {Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health: Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 2)}, year = {2016}, note = {Black, Robert E
Laxminarayan, Ramanan
Temmerman, Marleen
Walker, Neff
Aboud, Frances E
Yousafzai, Aisha K
Review
Book Chapter}, address = {Washington (DC)}, abstract = {Discusses mental development from birth to age 24 months in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), focusing on cognitive and language domains, while touching on socioemotional, fine motor, and gross motor development, by (1) describing the measurement of these domains in order to provide an operational definition of the term mental development: (2) examining conditions that derail early child development, which arise during the prenatal period and continue throughout the next 24 months; and (3) presenting the results of several systematic reviews and meta-analyses to show the effects of stimulation and nutrition, along with disease-related interventions to promote mental development. The risk factors of greatest importance concern low-quality psychosocial stimulation at home; inadequate child nutrition; infections from environmental vectors, such as trachoma and malaria; and maternal nutrition and mental health during the first 1,000 days. Interventions include psychosocial stimulation, prenatal and postnatal nutrition, improvements in the physical environment, and maternal mental health care.}, keywords = {access to health services, Child Development, child health, childhood diseases, cognitive development, health outcomes, infancy, malnutrition, Mental Health, nutrition, Postnatal Care, Quality of Health Care}, isbn = {9781464803482
9781464803680}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-0348-2_ch13}, author = {Aboud, F. E. and Yousafzai, A. K.}, editor = {Black, R. E. and Laxminarayan, R. and Temmerman, M. and Walker, N.} }