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Kinship, Nuptiality and Child Health Outcomes in a Low Income Urban Area

Award Number: R01HD101613
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/19/2020
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 06/30/2026

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Kinship, Nuptiality and Child Health Outcomes in a Low Income Urban Area - Project Summary Despite significant progress in improving child survival, sub-Saharan Africa continues to have some of the worst outcomes for children’s physical growth and early childhood development. This is driven in large part by elevated risks for children living in low-income urban communities. Whereas research has focused on environmental factors, socioeconomic status and access to services, much less effort have gone into understanding how rapid social transformation in marriage and the role of kin impacts children’s well-being in these communities. In this project, we build on the success of an NICHD R21 project to develop and test the Kinship Support Tree (KST) to assess quantity and quality of support from kin to single mothers and their children in a slum context in Nairobi, Kenya. The proposed mixed methods, the longitudinal study develops a new measure of union formalization to examine the relationships among kinship support, union formalization and infant/child development outcomes. The union formalization measure will capture the process of recognizing unions socially and/or legally. The study will be carried out in the same site as the KST project. The site hosts a Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) which facilitates initial sample selection and provides strong infrastructure. We will conduct rigorous cognitive testing to finalize the questions on union formalization, validate existing relationship quality scales and pretest all instruments in the first year to inform the survey development. We will then start with 1250 children ages 0 – 24 months with mothers aged 18-29 and collect data on the children, mothers and selected kin two times per year over 3 years. Data on kin include geospatial indicators of residence and distance and multiple domains of kinship support. This will be supplemented with qualitative follow up once a year on a subsample of mothers, biological fathers, and current partners. Our analysis will focus on the direct effects of union formalization and kinship support on child outcomes as well as on a set of intermediate outcomes known to be associated with child development. We will use cross-lagged structural equation and growth models to examine the effects of union formalization and kinship support on children’s physical growth and early child development (ECD) over time. We will also assess the extent to which union formalization moderates the effect of kinship support on physical growth and ECD outcomes and kinship support mediates the effect of union formalization on physical growth and ECD outcomes. We will use moderated mediation models to accomplish this. The ultimate goal of the study is to identify models of family support that offer optimum protection for vulnerable mothers and young children.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2027 ( Subtotal = -$103 )
2027	2024	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	3112 LEE BUILDING	COLLEGE PARK	MD	20742	PRINCE GEORGES	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	5	10/29/2026	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$103
														Subtotal = -$103

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $482,203 )
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	3112 LEE BUILDING	COLLEGE PARK	MD	20742	PRINCE GEORGES	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	5	6/19/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$482,203
														Subtotal = $482,203

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $595,115 )
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	3112 LEE BLDG 7809 REGENTS DR	COLLEGE PARK	MD	20742	PRINCE GEORGES	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	4	7/11/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$495,115
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	3112 LEE BLDG 7809 REGENTS DR	COLLEGE PARK	MD	20742	PRINCE GEORGES	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	3	5/11/2023	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$100,000
														Subtotal = $595,115

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $508,066 )
2022	2022	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	3112 LEE BLDG 7809 REGENTS DR	COLLEGE PARK	MD	20742	PRINCE GEORGES	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	3	7/12/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$508,066
														Subtotal = $508,066

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $542,204 )
2021	2021	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	3112 LEE BLDG 7809 REGENTS DR	COLLEGE PARK	MD	20742	PRINCE GEORGES	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	002	2	7/7/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$542,204
2021	2020	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	3112 LEE BLDG 7809 REGENTS DR	COLLEGE PARK	MD	20742	PRINCE GEORGES	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	1	1/13/2021	NEW	$0
2021	2020	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	3112 LEE BLDG 7809 REGENTS DR	COLLEGE PARK	MD	20742	PRINCE GEORGES	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	1	12/15/2020	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $542,204

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $595,438 )
2020	2020	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	3112 LEE BLDG 7809 REGENTS DR	COLLEGE PARK	MD	20742	PRINCE GEORGES	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	1	9/18/2020	NEW	$595,438
														Subtotal = $595,438

Grand Total All Awards = $2,722,923

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Kinship, Nuptiality and Child Health Outcomes in a Low Income Urban Area

Award Number: R01HD101613

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/19/2020

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 06/30/2026

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