Building Community Health Volunteers' Capacity to Support Parents With Young Children With SafeCare Kenya

The goal of this clinical trial is to implement and examine the impact of SafeCare Kenya, an adapted parenting program, to improve parents' skills and knowledge related to the care of their children between the ages of 18 months and 5 years old. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Will SafeCare Kenya improve child and parent outcomes? * Is virtual delivery as effective as in-person delivery of SafeCare Kenya? * Is SafeCare Kenya feasible to deliver by community health volunteers? Mothers will: * Complete study assessments at three timepoints: baseline, 6 months and 18 months * Mothers in the SafeCare Kenya group will receive the program from their community health volunteer Researchers will compare SafeCare Kenya to care as usual by community health volunteers to see if SafeCare Kenya families show improvements in parent interaction skills, safety and health knowledge, potential for child abuse, child behavior problems, child injuries, parenting stress, and child and parent quality of life.

NCT Number	NCT06363695
Lead Sponsor	Pacific University Collaborators: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Georgia State University, Africa Institute of Mental and Brain Health
Conditions	Child Maltreatment, Parenting
Enrollment	369 participants
Start Date	2024-03-14
Primary Completion	2028-01 (estimated)
Study Completion	2028-05 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2025-04-18