What is it about?
The study aims to develop a sustainable and scalable service delivery model for children with developmental delays in Pakistan by integrating social, technological, and business innovations.
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Why is it important?
This study addresses implementation challenges in the real world by using social, technological and business innovations to identify and train families of children with developmental delays. The programme takes task-shifting approach where non-specialists including social workers, nurses, teachers, community volunteers, caregivers and parents can deliver this programme in community-based facilities or schools to the families of children with developmental disorders and delays.
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The study delivers integrated innovations in task-sharing approaches to meet the challenges posed by ground realities in low-income settings, with the aim to improve treatment access in a group that has almost no access to care.
Usman Hamdani
Human Development Research Foundation
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This page is a summary of: WHO Parents Skills Training (PST) programme for children with developmental disorders and delays delivered by Family Volunteers in rural Pakistan: study protocol for effectiveness implementation hybrid cluster randomized controlled trial, Cambridge Prisms Global Mental Health, January 2017, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/gmh.2017.7.
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