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. 2025 Sep 8;14:e68758. doi: 10.2196/68758

Table 4.

Primary and secondary outcome measures.

Outcomes Measures
Primary outcomes

Child language
  • Receptive and expressive language: MacArthur-Bates Communication Development Inventory (short-form version; adapted)

  • Receptive language: Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (adapted)

  • Expressive language: Expressive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test (adapted)


Parental sensitivity and parent-child reciprocity
  • Parental sensitivity and parent-child reciprocity: directly observed book-sharing task rated with the Murray Global Rating Scale

Secondary outcomes

Child attention
  • Early Child Vigilance Task


Child behavior
  • Prosocial behavior: help task

  • Prosocial behavior: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (prosocial subscale)

  • Behavior: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire; total difficulties score


Parenting
  • Parental engagement with child: frequency of engagement in joint play with child, self-recorded in diaries

  • Parenting practices: Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire (connection, physical coercion, and verbal hostility dimensions)

  • Parenting efficacy: Parenting Self-Efficacy questionnaire (TOPSEa; selected questions)


Parental stress
  • Parental Stress Scale

Exploratory outcomes

Child health
  • Incidence of diarrhea

  • Wasting

  • Stunting

  • Underweight

Moderators and selected confounding variables

Sex of the child
  • Child's sex (male or female)


Socioeconomic situation of families
  • Asset index


Parental cognitive abilities
  • Vienna Matrices Test

aTOPSE: Tool to Measure Parenting Self-Efficacy.