Clinical trials: Early Child Development
Early Childhood Development, Infant Development
Understanding Early Development of Infants and Toddlers
The goal of this observational study is to analyze early development in infants and young children from a biopsychosocial perspective, with a particular focus on cognitive, language, motor, social-emotional, and adaptive…
- Conditions
- Early Childhood Development, Infant Development, Child Development
- Trial name
- NCT07418528
- Testing
- Psychological developmental assessment
- Where
- Poland
- Volunteers
- 1,200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Bartosz M. Radtke
Parental Technoference, Child Behavioral Problems
Parental Technoference and Behavioral-Emotional Development in Early Childhood: A 6-Month Prospective Study
This study aims to examine the relationship between parental technoference (parents' use of smartphones or other digital devices while spending time with their children) and behavioral and emotional development in early…
- Conditions
- Parental Technoference, Child Behavioral Problems, Emotional Development in Early Childhood
- Trial name
- TECH-SDQ (NCT07387133)
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 250 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi
Movement Disorders
Effectiveness of Vojta Therapy in Motor Development of Preterm Children
Justification: Prematurely born children have an increased prevalence of neurodevelopment problems in the first two years. Knowledge regarding the effects of early intervention programs is essential to the follow up of these…
- Trial name
- NCT01838278
- Testing
- Vojta Physiotherapy Method
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universidad de Murcia
Language Development, Behavior, Child
Literacy Promotion for Latinos Study
This study tests the extent to which tailored outreach text messages that provide a cue to action and an intervention that enhances access to poverty-reducing resources, in combination with standard primary care literacy…
- Conditions
- Language Development, Behavior, Child, Parenting, Literacy
- Trial name
- NCT04609553
- Testing
- Usual care including ROR, Text messages, Connection to community resources
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 662 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Depression
Enhancing Parenting for Depressed Caregivers
The main objective of this study is to adapt a parenting intervention for caregivers of young children who report depressive symptoms in primary care pediatric practices.
- Trial name
- EPDC (NCT01464619)
- Testing
- The Incredible Years Parenting Intervention, Delayed Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 61 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Dietary Intakes, Physical Activity
Implementing Modified Practices to Leverage Evidence for Movement, Engagement, and Nutrition Topics in Early Childcare and Education
The goal of this cluster-randomized, controlled trial is to learn if a professional development program for childcare educators, called the Boston Healthy Child Care Initiative, can help improve the nutritional quality of…
- Conditions
- Dietary Intakes, Physical Activity, Child Care, Early Education
- Trial name
- IMPLEMENT (NCT07874295)
- Testing
- Boston Healthy Child Care Initiative
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 456 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)
Child Rearing, Adolescent Development
Follow-up of Families in Early Preventive Intervention
This project supports the post-third-grade assessment of 693 children and their families who were enrolled in a randomized trial of a program of prenatal and infancy home visitation by nurses that was epidemiologically and…
- Conditions
- Child Rearing, Adolescent Development, Reproductive Behavior, Risk Reduction Behavior
- Trial name
- MemphisYear9 (NCT00438516)
- Testing
- nurse home visitation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 627 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Communication Disorder, Childhood, Autism
Evaluating Georgia Part C Implementation Outcomes
This study aims to answer the question: What is the best way to help Early Intervention (EI) providers deliver high-quality services to children with communication delays for autism? The primary goal of this project is to examine…
- Trial name
- NCT07148258
- Testing
- Project ImPACT Training As Usual, Project ImPACT Training Plus Co-Production, Routine Project ImPACT
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Emory University
Child Development
PROmoting Early Childhood Outside 2.0
Licensed early learning and childcare centres (ELCCs) can provide children with rich opportunities for outdoor play that they may not otherwise experience in their home or community.
- Trial name
- PRO-ECO2 (NCT05626595)
- Testing
- Project Group - PRO-ECO Project, Wait List Group - Normal Daily Practice
- Where
- 10 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 307 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of British Columbia
Autism Spectrum Disorder, Autism
Treatment Monitoring in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Children
The goal of this clinical study is to learn about the utility and performance of the EarliPoint(™) System: Evaluation for Autism Spectrum Disorder to monitor changes in a child's verbal ability, non-verbal learning, and social…
- Conditions
- Autism Spectrum Disorder, Autism, Developmental Delay, Autism, Early Infantile
- Trial name
- MEASURE-ASD1 (NCT05675371)
- Testing
- Assessment by Expert Clinician During Behavioral Intervention (ABA or similar), Assessment by the EarliPoint Assessment For Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Where
- 9 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 325 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- EarliTec Diagnostics, Inc
Early Childhood Development (ECD)
Combined Nutrition and Parenting Study
This study aims to evaluate whether early childhood development is improved by a bundled set of interventions that promote responsive stimulation and improved nutrition by the provision of eggs and dried fish (nutrient-dense…
- Trial name
- BUNDLE (NCT07490899)
- Testing
- Responsive stimulation, female and male caregivers, Food provision and nutrition education
- Where
- 4 sites in Liberia
- Volunteers
- 2,240 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of South Carolina
Child Development
LEAPS-NCHD Program Evaluation
An estimated 88 million children drop out of primary school each year worldwide, and the highest number of dropouts are in the first and second grade.
- Trial name
- NCT03764436
- Testing
- LEAPS-NCHD Program
- Where
- Pakistan
- Volunteers
- 3,858 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)
Teen Parenthood
Building Healthy Children
This study will evaluate the effectiveness of providing a combination of evidence-based behavioral health treatments for mothers who gave birth to their first child prior to the age of 21 and who meet eligibility requirements and…
- Trial name
- BHC (NCT01888809)
- Testing
- Comprehensive preventive services, Screening and referral
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,852 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Rochester
Obesity and Overweight
Brain and Behavior Influences on Obesity Development From Infancy Through Childhood
The investigators project, RESONATE, aims to investigate why some children develop obesity. To do this it uses data on eating and eating-related behaviors, genetic and environmental factors, and brain structure and function.
- Trial name
- RESONATE (NCT06861868)
- Testing
- fMRI cue reactivity task, fMRI go no go task, Ad libitum meal test
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 210 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
Developmental Delay
Development and Effectiveness of Home-based Programs for Preschool Children With Developmental Delay
Early intervention refers to the provision of early detection, early diagnosis, and early intervention for infants and young children with special needs.
- Trial name
- NCT02115334
- Testing
- professional therapists delivering the PHPA, parents executing the PHPA, health education
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Parent-Child Relations
Promoting Socioemotional Development in Early Childhood: Implementation and Evaluation of the VIPP-SD Parenting Intervention in Portugal
The Video-feedback Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (VIPP-SD) is an attachment-based intervention aimed at promoting parental sensitivity and the use of developmentally appropriate, non-coercive…
- Trial name
- SAF-Parents (NCT07153198)
- Testing
- VIPP-SD
- Where
- Portugal
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- ISPA - Instituto Universitario de Ciencias Psicologicas, Sociais e da Vida
Child Development
Evaluation of a Group-based Parenting Intervention for Early Childhood Development
This implementation research study aims to evaluate the impact and implementation of a group-based parenting program for improving early child development and caregiver outcomes.
- Trial name
- NCT06165315
- Testing
- Parenting program
- Where
- Kenya
- Volunteers
- 620 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)
Teaching Healthy Cooking Skills to Parents and Their Preschool Children
Cooking HEalthy and Facilitating Early Childhood Development: CHEF-ED Study
This study aims to test a new online program we developed for parents and their preschool children, called CHEF-ED. CHEF-ED focuses on healthy cooking, parental feeding practices, and involving children in home food preparation.
- Trial name
- CHEF-ED (NCT06940817)
- Testing
- CHEF-ED + Food Delivery, Food Delivery Only
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 300 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Baylor College of Medicine
Diet, Healthy, Infant Development
The Motility Mother-Child Cohort
The overall aim of the project is to investigate how bowel habits and nutrition in early life relate to the infant gut microbiome and metabolome from birth to 1 year of age.
- Trial name
- MOTILITY (NCT05491161)
- Testing
- Longitudinal study
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 250 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Copenhagen
Autism Spectrum Disorder, Early Intervention
Biomarkers Trajectories of Early Intervention in Siblings of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
This project deals with essential challenges in the context of Autism Spectrum Disorder benefiting from a prospective design in childhood, early intervention and a cutting-edge experimental techniques.
- Trial name
- NCT05614206
- Testing
- Behavioral intervention based on Applied Behavior Analysis principles
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- IRCCS Eugenio Medea