Access to affordable daycare and women’s mental health in Rajasthan, India: Evidence from a cluster-randomised social intervention
Arijit Nandi e outros, 2024 · Journal of Global Health
Randomised access to affordable daycare increased maternal membership in community associations by 5.6 percentage points after two years, although the effect was imprecisely estimated.
Estimativa · membership in an association, percentage points
5,60 [-1,20; 12,4]
percentage points
- Desenho
- Experimento aleatório por conglomerados. cluster-randomised trial across 160 village hamlets
- População
- mothers of children aged 1–6 in 160 rural hamlets in Udaipur district, Rajasthan, India, 2015–2017
- Amostra
- 2.855 · mothers
Onde está o número
RESULTS > Intent-to-treat estimates for the impact of random assignment to a balwadi; Table 2, row 'Member of an association', column 'Controls for baseline value'
However, membership in an association increased by 5.6 percentage points (95% CI = −1.2, 12.4) among those randomised to the treatment compared to the control group, a relative increase of 43.4% (Table 2).
Contexto
What changed: Hamlet-level offer of affordable full-time daycare centres (balwadis) providing early education, meals, and health monitoring. Comparison: 80 treated hamlets versus 80 control hamlets without balwadis. Limits: About 10% lost to follow-up, 9% contamination in control hamlets, and wide confidence intervals.
Caminho no grafo
- FamíliaProvisão direta
- TipoProvisão de serviço público
- TipoExpansão de serviço público (vagas em creche)
- EixoRedes
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Lugares do estudo
- Badgaon · Distrito ou local · IN
- Girwa · Distrito ou local · IN
- Jhadol · Distrito ou local · IN
- Kherwara · Distrito ou local · IN
- Kotra · Distrito ou local · IN
- Licença
- CC-BY
- Revisão
- Extraído por máquina, não revisadoExtraído por: gemini-3.8-flash, 2026-10-23