Researchers
Sonya Krutikova, Britta Augsburg, Robert Dreibelelbis, Edward Nketiah-Amponsah, Ottavia Anna Veroux, Sharon Wolf, Orazio Attanasio.
Introduction
Many children in developing countries grow up in environments that lack stimulation, leading to deficiencies in early years’ development in some domains, particularly cognition and language. Various early childhood care and education programs (ECCE) have demonstrated a clear impact on these outcomes in small efficacy trials, but the sustainability of effects is mixed for interventions scaled by government as part of public policy. This study evaluates an ECCE programme found to be effective in an efficacy-trial when being taken to scale across Northern Ghana.
Project start: December 2021
Status: Ongoing
Ethics approval: Study protocols have been approved by ethics boards at University College London (IRB 21361/001), Yale University (IRB 2000031549) and Ghanaian Health Service Ethics Review Committee (IRB 028/09/21).
Trial registration: AEARCTR-0008500, ISRCTN15360698
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