Community-wide mobilization towards positive parenting: Parenting and child outcome data from a rural South African community.

This database contains community-wide data on parenting and child behavioral outcomes collected from 760 parent-child dyads across 5 separate waves; spanning from August 2012 to January 2019. Participants resided in a stable, low-income, rural community, known as Touwsranten, which is situated in the Western Province, South Africa.

Two major aims of the Touwranten study were to investigate whether (1) 4 parenting interventions and (2) community-wide social activation campaigns, implemented between Waves 3-4, would lead to positive change in parenting practices and child outcomes. Data on parenting, child outcomes, parenting program attendance and social activation are avaliable.

Two files are attached:

(1) Database = W1W2W3W4W5_Touwsranten_dataset.v1

(2) Data dictionary = W1W2W3W4W5_Touwsranten_datadictionary.v1

6 r scripts to reproduce findings from Touwsrantens papers 1 & 2

(1) (a) Paper 1 full sample descriptives = Paper1_descriptives_full_sample.r

(1) (b) Paper 1 analytic sample descriptives = Paper1_descriptives_analytic_samples.r

(1) (c) Paper inferential statistics = Paper 1_inferential_analyses.r

(2) (a) Paper 2 full sample descriptives = Paper2_descriptives_full_sample.r

(2) (b) Paper 2 graphics = Paper2_graphics.r

(2) (c) Paper 2 inferential statistics = Paper 2_inferential_analyses.r

For more information on this database see:

link to datanote

and publications see:

Manscript 1 (Waves 1-3); An Assessment of Trends in Parenting and Child Outcomes in a Rural South African Community and Consequent Intervention Design: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42448-023-00179-4

link to paper 2