The current design follows pregnant women, the children they subsequently birth (what we refer to as the target child, or the prenatal cohort), a subsample of husbands, and a subsample of one existing child between the ages of 36 and 60 months at the time of recruitment, if present (what we refer to as the older sibling, or the early years cohort). Pregnant women are recruited from the population of forcibly displaced Rohingya living in the refugee camps (N=2250), Bangladesh, and a subsample from the surrounding host community (N=550).
In the current and confirmed design, there will be a total of three or four waves of data collection for each household over the period that spans recruitment (during pregnancy) through to the target child reaching 6-months of age. In between, data is collected at the third trimester (for women recruited before that) and 72 hours and 28 days after birth.
A 24-month wave is currently in the planning stages. A 24-month wave will include measures of child growth and neurocognitive development, and extensive caregiver surveys.
Target Child
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24-MONTH
6-MONTH
BIRTH
THIRD-TRIMESTER
RECRUITMENT
Older Sibling
Father
Mother
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