The Irie Homes Toolbox: A cluster randomized controlled trial of an early childhood parenting program to prevent violence against children in Jamaica

Taja Francis and Helen Baker-Henningham

Children and Youth Services Review, 2021, vol. 126, issue C

Abstract: We tested whether a universal, violence-prevention, early childhood, parenting program (The Irie Homes Toolbox) reduced parents’ use of harsh punishment and increased parents’ involvement with their child.

Keywords: Violence against children; Parenting; Early childhood; Intervention; Child behavior; Low and middle- income countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.106060

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