Maternal resources for care are associated with child growth and early childhood development in Bangladesh and Vietnam

Education is the process of changing one's attitude or behavior groups of people to mature humans through teaching and training efforts. Since early humans have needed education in the process of its development into adulthood. The development of children in the first years is very important and will determine the quality in the future. Children are individuals who are different, unique, and have their own characteristics in accordance with the stages of his age. Therefore, early childhood development efforts should be done through learning and play.Growth and physical development have an important role in the lives of children. Growth and physical development is one of the major developmental tasks in the life of a child. Growth and physical development will affect the development and growth of children in other developmental dimensions. Parents and teachers really need to understand the growth and physical development of children, and instill healthy habits through physical activity of children from an early age.To help the physical development of children, teachers and parents need to provide guidance to them in order to have the awareness of sensory abilities, and also have a positive attitude towards him. Parents and teachers also need to understand the signs of developmental delays in children, parents and teachers need to be cautious in view of delays in child development and should consult with your doctor to make sure and give the child needed help, so that children can grow physically and develop optimally. Keywords: physical development, early childhood

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Nursing strategies for child health surveillance

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem ◽

10.1590/1518-8345.2434.3007 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 26 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Marina Sayuri Yakuwa ◽

Sarah Neill ◽

Débora Falleiros de Mello

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Child Health ◽

Early Childhood Development ◽

Health Indicators ◽

Child Growth ◽

Health Surveillance ◽

Childhood Development ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Child Health Surveillance

ABSTRACT Objective: to appreciate the strategies promoted by nurses in the context of child health surveillance relevant to early childhood development. Method: this is a qualitative study with an inductive thematic analysis of the data, based on the conceptual principles of child health surveillance, and developed through semi-structured interviews with Brazilian nurses working with families in primary health care. Results: the nurses’ strategies in favor of child health surveillance focus on actions that anticipate harm with continuous follow-up and monitoring of health indicators. The process of child growth and development is the basis for responses and benefits to health, connection with the daily lives of families, active search, articulations between professionals and services, access to comprehensive care, and intrinsic actions between promotion, prevention and health follow-up. Conclusion: child health surveillance actions developed by nurses with families involve knowledge sharing, favor the resolution of problems, increase child health indicators, and strengthen the relationship between health and children’s rights, which support the promotion of development in early childhood.

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Effect of a home-visiting parenting program to promote early childhood development and prevent violence: a cluster-randomized trial in Rwanda

BMJ Global Health ◽

10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003508 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. e003508

Author(s):

Sarah KG Jensen ◽

Matias Placencio-Castro ◽

Shauna M Murray ◽

Robert T Brennan ◽

Simo Goshev ◽

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Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Home Visiting ◽

Social Protection ◽

Early Childhood Development ◽

Randomised Trial ◽

Child Growth ◽

Childhood Development ◽

Cluster Randomised Trial ◽

Demographic And Health Surveys ◽

Father Engagement

IntroductionFamilies living in extreme poverty require interventions to support early-childhood development (ECD) due to broad risks. This longitudinal cluster randomised trial examines the effectiveness of Sugira Muryango (SM), a home-visiting intervention linked to Rwanda’s social protection system to promote ECD and reduce violence compared with usual care (UC).MethodsFamilies with children aged 6–36 months were recruited in 284 geographical clusters across three districts. Cluster-level randomisation (allocated 1:1 SM:UC) was used to prevent diffusion. SM was hypothesised to improve child development, reduce violence and increase father engagement. Developmental outcomes were assessed using the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ-3) and the Malawi Development Assessment Tool (MDAT) and anthropometric assessments of growth. Violence was assessed using questions from UNICEF Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS) and Rwanda Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). Father engagement was assessed using the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment. Blinded enumerators conducted interviews and developmental assessments.ResultsA total of 541 SM families and 508 UC families were enrolled and included in the analyses. Study attrition (2.0% children; 9.6% caregivers) was addressed by hot deck imputation. Children in SM families improved more on gross motor (d=0.162, 95% CI 0.065 to 0.260), communication (d=0.081, 95% CI 0.005 to 0.156), problem solving (d=0.101, 95% CI 0.002 to 0.179) and personal-social development (d=0.096, 95% CI −0.015 to 0.177) on the ASQ-3. SM families showed increased father engagement (OR=1.592, 95% CI 1.069 to 2.368), decreased harsh discipline (incidence rate ratio, IRR=0.741, 95% CI 0.657 to 0.835) and intimate partner violence (IRR=0.616, 95% CI:0.458 to 0.828). There were no intervention-related improvements on MDAT or child growth.ConclusionSocial protection programmes provide a means to deliver ECD intervention.Trial registration numberNCT02510313.

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Pelatihan Dan Edukasi Pada Guru Paud Tentang Tumbuh Kembang Balita Dan Anak Pra Sekolah

Jurnal Pengabdian Dharma Bakti ◽

10.35842/jpdb.v3i2.125 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 66

Author(s):

Tri Sunarsih

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Child Development ◽

Early Detection ◽

Growth And Development ◽

Parental Education ◽

Early Childhood Development ◽

Child Growth ◽

Childhood Development ◽

Childhood Growth ◽

Growth Development

The need for stimulation or efforts to stimulate children to introduce new knowledge or skills is very important in improving children's intelligence. Stimulation in children can be started since the baby is a fetus, because the fetus is not a passive creature. In the womb, the fetus is able to breathe, kick, stretch, move, swallow, suck the thumb, and others. While the main stimulation is given specifically for children aged 0-7 years (Siswono, 2004). PAUD teacher's understanding and awareness of the importance and influence of parental education on child development vary. Many do not understand the characteristics of early childhood development, stimulation, and implementation of early detection of early childhood growth and development. Asih Waluyo Jati Clinic is a Pratama clinic that has a program about child development. With community service at the Asih Waluyo Jati Primary Clinic, it is expected that the knowledge and understanding of PAUD teachers on the characteristics of growth and development, simulation, and implementation of early detection of early childhood growth and development can be increased. The activity was carried out at the Pratama Asih Waluyo Jati Clinic on Sunday, October 8, 2017, at 09.00 to 15.00 with material about problems of child growth and development in Indonesia, the importance of monitoring children's growth and development, the participation of teachers and parents in child development, how to detect children's growth and how to detect a child's development. The methods used in this activity include lectures, questions and answers, and role-play. Most of the participants understood what early detection and stimulation of children's growth and development were. But about the types and ways of early detection that must be done many do not understand. The participant's lack of understanding about the types and methods of early detection of children when training has not been conducted is likely because since they have never attended training and there has been no socialization from the education office related to monitoring child development. After being given the material, the participants understood that the types of early detection were detection of growth, development, and mental-emotional. Stimulation is very important as a form of intervention so that the child's growth and development can take place optimally.Keywords: early childhood, stimulation, early detection, growth, development

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Pregnancy anaemia, child health and development: a cohort study in rural India

BMJ Open ◽

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046802 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (11) ◽

pp. e046802

Author(s):

Esther Heesemann ◽

Claudia Mähler ◽

Malavika A Subramanyam ◽

Sebastian Vollmer

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Cohort Study ◽

Low Income ◽

Early Childhood Development ◽

Disease Incidence ◽

Household Survey ◽

Child Growth ◽

Childhood Development ◽

Secondary Outcome ◽

Increased Risk

ObjectiveTo assess how pregnancy anaemia affects the offspring’s early childhood development, child haemoglobin (Hb) levels child growth and diseases incidence 2 years after birth in a low-income setting. Furthermore, we investigate the mediating role of childhood Hb levels with disease incidences and skills.DesignProspective cohort study.Setting and participantsThe study participants are 941-999 mother–child dyads from rural Madhepura in Bihar, India. In 2015, the women were recruited during pregnancy from registers in mother–child centres of 140 villages for the first wave of data collection. At the time of the second wave in 2017, the children were 22–32 months old.Primary and secondary outcome measuresThe recruited women were visited at home for a household survey and the measurement of the women’s and child’s Hb level, child weight and height. Data on the incidence of diarrhoea and respiratory diseases or fever were collected from interviews with the mothers. To test motor, cognitive, language and socioemotional skills of the children, we used an adapted version of the child development assessment FREDI.ResultsThe average Hb during pregnancy was 10.2 g/dL and 69% of the women had pregnancy anaemia. At the age of 22–32 months, a 1 g/dL increase in Hb during pregnancy was associated with a 0.17 g/dL (95% CI: 0.11 to 0.23) increase in Hb levels of the child. Children of moderately or severely anaemic women during pregnancy showed 0.57 g/dL (95% CI: −0.78 to −0.36) lower Hb than children of non-anaemic women. We find no association between the maternal Hb during pregnancy and early skills, stunting, wasting, underweight or disease incidence. While childhood anaemia does not correlate with childhood diseases, we find an association of a 1 g/dl increase in the child's Hb with 0.04 SDs higher test scores.ConclusionsWhile pregnancy anaemia is a risk factor for anaemia during childhood, we do not find evidence for an increased risk of infectious diseases or early childhood development delays.

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Initiating a Meaningful Assessment of Early Childhood Development during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Journal of Childhood Development ◽

10.25217/jcd.v1i2.1828 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 78-87

Author(s):

Luluk Rochanah

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Growth And Development ◽

Early Childhood Development ◽

Continuous Process ◽

Child Growth ◽

Childhood Development ◽

Social Emotional ◽

Developmental Needs ◽

Initial Information ◽

Phenomenological Perspective

Assessment of early childhood development during the COVID-19 pandemic really needs to be done in order to monitor the process and progress of children's learning optimally and continuously through a systematic, periodic and continuous process to collect data, conduct analysis, document and make decisions and make reports on developments. child. This study uses a qualitative approach based on a phenomenological perspective, with interview, observation, and documentation techniques. This study aims to determine the growth and development of Religious and Moral Values, Physical Motor, Cognitive, Language, Social Emotional and Art, obtain initial information related to obstacles or disorders in child growth and development, how to stimulate services with children's developmental needs, provide appropriate support appropriate for children, how to stimulate services with children's development needs, provide appropriate support to children from parents when learning from home.

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