Back to Search
Start Over
Correlates of participation in community-based interventions: Evidence from a parenting program in rural China
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 9, p e0238841 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020.
-
Abstract
- A growing body of literature has documented that community-based early childhood development (ECD) interventions can improve child developmental outcomes in vulnerable communities. One critical element of effective community-based programs is consistent program participation. However, little is known about participation in community-based ECD interventions or factors that may affect participation. This paper examines factors linked to program participation within a community-based ECD program serving 819 infants and their caregivers in 50 rural villages in northwestern China. The results find that more than half of families did not regularly attend the ECD program. Both village-level social ties within the program and proximity to the program significantly predict program participation. Increased distance from the program site is linked with decreased individual program participation, while the number of social ties is positively correlated with participation. The average program participation rates among a family's social ties is also positively correlated with individual participation, indicating strong peer effects. Taken together, our findings suggest that attention should be given to promoting social interactions and reducing geographic barriers among households in order to raise participation in community-based ECD programs.
- Subjects :
- Male
Rural Population
Gerontology
Economics
Psychological intervention
Social Sciences
Economic Geography
Pediatrics
Community Networks
Social Geography
Geographical Locations
Families
Child Development
0302 clinical medicine
Sociology
Medicine and Health Sciences
Early childhood
050207 economics
Children
Community based intervention
Family Characteristics
Multidisciplinary
Geography
Parenting
05 social sciences
Social Networks
Caregivers
Medicine
Low and Middle Income Countries
Female
Psychology
Network Analysis
Research Article
Computer and Information Sciences
China
Asia
Science
Human Geography
Community Based Intervention
Affect (psychology)
Peer Group
03 medical and health sciences
030225 pediatrics
0502 economics and business
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Social geography
Infant
Child development
Health Care
Interpersonal ties
Age Groups
People and Places
Earth Sciences
Population Groupings
Program Evaluation
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 15
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLOS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....eda96108280eee2497ffca58fa59ee31