Tele-mentoring and tele-counselling for mothers and children to address Covid learning loss

Country

Bangladesh

Title

Tele-mentoring and tele-counselling for mothers and children to address Covid learning loss

Evaluation design

This RCT tests the impacts of 4 variants of tele-mentoring and/or tele-counselling sessions aiming to improve parental involvement in children's development:
(i) Weekly education and developmental support over the phone for mothers
(ii) Mental health and financial tele-counselling support for the mother;
(iii) Combination of treatment arms (i) and (ii)
(iv) Control arm: no intervention

Main outcomes

Children's cognition, language,  and numeracy; time spent engaging children in early stimulation; mother's perceived stress and  depression severity; and financial self-efficacy and saving. 

Target groups

Children aged 4-7 years and their mothers who reside in rural south west Bangladesh.

Team

Asad Islam (Monash University), Liang Choon Wang (Monash University)

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