Learning Clubs to Improve Women's Health and Infant Development in Vietnam: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial to Inform Transition to Scale

Learning Clubs is an integrated, evidence-based caregiver education program that addresses multiple major risk factors, including: maternal nutrition, infant health and development, gender-based violence and empowerment and maternal mental health to optimal early childhood development. Each of the program’s 19 community-based facilitated group sessions provide mothers, fathers, and grandparents with access to learning activities, group interaction, educational DVDs, and social support throughout the first 1000 days of a child’s development. The program’s effectiveness is being investigated in rural Vietnam