Scaling up home‐visiting to promote early childhood development and prevent violence in Rwanda: a hybrid type‐2 effectiveness‐implementation trial
The PLAY Collaborative successfully overcame implementation barriers and maintained effectiveness across most outcomes while scaling delivery to N = 8,745 families, highlighting the value of systematically investigating implementation strategies while scaling an EBI as integrated into existing social and child protection systems.
Authors
- Matias Placencio‐Castro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4927-3344)
- Kayla Hernandez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2930-0192)
- Vincent Sezibera (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0811-3216)
- Ursula Kajani
- Theresa S. Betancourt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3683-4440)
- Candace Jasmine Black (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4653-7973)
- Pacifique Uwamahoro
- Shauna M. Murray
- Laura Bond (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8639-7907)
- Marie Gaudence Nyirahabimana
- Grace Umulisa
- Sarah K. G. Jensen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6407-3055)
- Laura B. Rawlings
- Gabriela Phend
- Jean Marie Vianney Havugimana
Institutions
- Boston College (US)
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- Carter Center (US)
- World Bank (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Emory University (US)
- University of Rwanda (RW)
- Rwanda Biomedical Center (RW)
- Boston Children's Museum (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
- Published
- 2025-03-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.14160
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Community Health and Development
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 5.63
Funders
- Oak Foundation
- LEGO Foundation