Improving Early Childhood Development in Zambia

• Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
• Last refreshed on: 16 December 2017
• Main ID: NCT02234726
• Date of registration: 08/08/2014
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Zambia Center for Applied Health Research and Development
• Public title: Improving Early Childhood Development in Zambia IECDZ
• Scientific title: Improving Early Childhood Development in Zambia
• Date of first enrolment: August 2014
• Target sample size: 526
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02234726
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Screening. Masking: None (Open Label).
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

Zambia

Contacts

• Name: Davidson Hamer
• Affiliation: Boston University

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria

- Child ages 6 to 12 months at the time of intervention launch residing in the catchment
areas of the five study health facilities

- Child's mother or main caregiver must be 15 years or older

- Child's primary caregiver must be a female (because the participants in the caregiver
groups may feel uncomfortable discussing certain issues if a man is present)

Exclusion criteria

- Caregivers who are unwilling to provide informed consent

- Families that plan to move from their health center catchment zone during the twelve
month period of the study



Age minimum: 6 Months
Age maximum: 12 Months
Gender: All

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Child Development

Stunting

Intervention(s)

Behavioral: Early Childhood Development Program

Primary Outcome(s)

Cognitive function [Time Frame: End line (after one year); Amendment: BSID-III at year two (extension) endline]

Stunting [Time Frame: One year starting with baseline (August-September 2014) and finishing with end line (September 2015); Amendment: also measured at year two (extension) endline]

Secondary Outcome(s)

Measles vaccine 2nd dose [Time Frame: End line (one year)]

Treatment of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) [Time Frame: Baseline and end line (one year)]

Caregiver awareness of child development [Time Frame: Baseline and end line (one year)]

Secondary ID(s)

GCC 0349-03

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors

Secondary Sponsor(s)

Department for International Development, United Kingdom

Grand Challenges Canada

PATH