Study design.
’ behaviors
In the catchment areas of 10 rural health centers, community-based parenting groups were rolled out in zones randomized to the intervention group.Within this overarching evaluation, as COVID-19 appeared and increased as a public health concern, we sought to understand how community risk perceptions around COVID-19 and their associated behaviors changed over time. Beginning in August 2020, the study began surveying caregivers attending group meetings on their attitudes and behaviors regarding COVID-19. Caregivers were asked each time they attended a group meeting about their perception of COVID-19 risk, the gatherings they had attended in the past 2 weeks, their own behaviors at these gatherings, and their perceptions of peers’ behaviors at these gatherings.