The Irie Homes Toolbox: Development and Evaluation

01/08/2018
01/08/2019
A safe, secure, nurturing and stimulating early childhood caregiving environment promotes children's social, emotional and cognitive development. The aim of this study is to evaluate 'The Irie Homes Toolbox', a combined violence prevention and early childhood development intervention that will be delivered in community preschools to parents of young children. The intervention aims to reduce child abuse and neglect and to promote positive parent-child interaction and stimulation in the home. The study will test whether training parents in behaviour management, child-directed play and interactive reading leads to benefits to parenting practices including reductions in harsh punishment and increases in play and positive parent-child interaction. The study will also evaluate whether there are benefits for the children of participating parents, including child behaviour, school readiness and language skills.
Child Abuse
Youth Violence
Jamaica
Rural & Urban
Preschool children and parents
Male & Female
20 - 29
30 - 59

Lead Investigator Information

Helen Baker-Henningham
Caribbean Institute for Health Research, University of the West Indies
Jamaica
h.henningham@bangor.ac.uk
Fidelity/quality of implementation
Participants
Experimental: 216
Control: 216
 Data PointsStatisticalMatching
Randomised controlled trial 
Parents' use of harsh punishment
1. Child behaviour difficulties at home by parent report 2. Child prosocial behaviour at home by parent report 3. Child behaviour difficulties at school by teacher report 4. Child prosocial behaviour at school by teacher report
University of the West Indies Grand Challenges Canada
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