Measuring Quality and Characterizing Cuna Mas Home Visits

This dataset contains information on Programa Nacional Cuna Más (Cuna Mas, hereinafter), Peru’s largest early childhood development program established in 2012. It focuses on one of the two services provided by Cuna Mas known as Servicio de Acompanamiento a Familias (SAF), a home visiting program that operates in rural areas and provides one-hour weekly home visits to children aged 0-36 months and their caregiver.

The objective of the study was to compare different instruments to measure the quality of home visiting programs. Between August and October 2015, three instruments were administered to a sample of 554 children enrolled in Cuna Mas and receiving home visits at the time of data collection, and on their 176 home visitors who regularly work with 80 supervisors.

The following quality instruments were administered:
• Home Visit Rating Scale, version A+2 (HOVRS; Roggman et al. 2010)
• Home Visit Content and Characteristics Form (HVCCF; Boller et al. 2009)
• A supervisor checklist

The first two quality instruments are widely used among home visiting services in the United States. For each child in the sample, one home visit was filmed and the videos were later coded to create the scores, following the instruments’ manuals. The checklist, on the other hand, was designed based on record forms used by Cuna Mas and other home visiting programs in low- and middle- income countries, and was administered live during the visit by the home visitor’s supervisor.

The final, multilevel dataset includes:
• 554 visits with an identical number of distinct children
• 176 home visitors
• 80 supervisors •

Methodology available at: <a href="https://idbg.sharepoint.com/teams/EZ-RG-ESW/RG-K1423/25%20Results%20Management/Publicaciones%20-%20Base%20de%20Datos/measuring-quality-and-characterizing-cuna-mas-home-visits.pdf">https://idbg.sharepoint.com/teams/EZ-RG-ESW/RG-K1423/25%20Results%20Management/Publicaciones%20-%20Base%20de%20Datos/measuring-quality-and-characterizing-cuna-mas-home-visits.pdf</a>

本数据集收录了关于秘鲁最大的早期儿童发展项目——国家摇篮计划（以下简称‘国家摇篮计划’）的信息，该计划于2012年成立。该计划专注于国家摇篮计划提供的两项服务之一——家庭陪伴服务（以下简称‘家庭陪伴服务’），这是一项在乡村地区运行的居家访问计划，为0-36个月大的儿童及其照料者提供每周一次、每次一小时的居家访问。研究的目标在于比较不同的评估工具，以衡量家庭陪伴服务的质量。在2015年8月至10月间，对554名在数据收集时接受家庭陪伴服务的国家摇篮计划儿童及其176名定期与80名督导员合作的居家访问员进行了三项评估工具的测试。以下为所使用的质量评估工具：
• 家庭访问评估量表A+2版（HOVRS；Roggman等，2010年）
• 家庭访问内容和特征表（HVCCF；Boller等，2009年）
• 督导员清单。前两项质量评估工具在美国的家庭陪伴服务中得到广泛应用。对于样本中的每位儿童，对其一次家庭访问进行了录像，并随后根据工具手册进行编码以创建评分。另一方面，清单是基于国家摇篮计划及其他低收入和中等收入国家的家庭陪伴服务所使用的记录表设计的，并由访问员的督导员在访问期间现场执行。
最终的多级数据集包括：
• 554次访问，涉及相同数量的不同儿童
• 176名居家访问员
• 80名督导员

相关研究方法可参考：[链接](https://idbg.sharepoint.com/teams/EZ-RG-ESW/RG-K1423/25%20Results%20Management/Publicaciones%20-%20Base%20de%20Datos/measuring-quality-and-characterizing-cuna-mas-home-visits.pdf)