SINGAPORE, May 4 -- Researchers in Singapore have reportedly launched their largest parenting trial, the Loving Study, to examine how strengthening parenting skills can support children's behavioural, social, cognitive and physical development.

The study will focus on sensitive caregiving, which refers to parenting approaches where parents respond to their children's needs in a calm, consistent and supportive way, according to The Straits Times.

The Singapore daily reported that sensitive caregiving has been linked to better behavioural regulation and developmental outcomes in children, with some evidence also suggesting a lower risk of obesity

"In Singapore, we know that some of those challenges (in caregiving) happen more in lower-in...