The relationship between responsive caregiving and child outcomes: evidence from direct observations of mother-child dyads in Pakistan

• Main Authors: Elissa Scherer (Author), Ashley Hagaman (Author), Esther Chung (Author), Atif Rahman (Author), Karen O'Donnell (Author), Joanna Maselko (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Responsive caregiving, or interactions in which caregivers give appropriate responses to a child's signals, is linked to improved psychosocial, cognitive and physical outcomes in children. However, much remains unknown about how responsive caregiving affects child developmen...