the evaluation of mothers' participation project in children’s growth and development process based on the cipp model

background: assessment of national children's growth indicated a high prevalence of growth failure among them. many previous projects have studied the children’s growth & nutrition status but most of them have not evaluated. the aim of this study was to evaluate the mothers' participation project after passing two years. methods: in this descriptive and summative evaluation study, 90 mother and child pairs were enrolled. they studied in two case and control groups. case group consist of mothers(n=90) who tended in “ mother’s participation projects “ in 2003  and  control group were mothers in dastgerd center who has been matched with case group and were not participated in this program. data collected using children growth chart and questionnaire was used in the project. obtained data was analyzed by spss software and nonparametric statistical tests. findings: the results showed significant differences between two groups in following items; mean of maternal self-esteem (p<0.001), maternal performance in training others (p=0.006), weekly study time (p=0.004), frequency of mothers participation in education programs (p=0.002), their knowledge about the growth monitoring card (p=0.03),their ability in drawing growth curves (p<0.001), mothers knowledge about types of growth curves (p=0.001)and the objectives of growth monitoring (p<0.001). conclusion: considering the sustained improvement of maternal knowledge and function regarding children’s growth and development after 2 years of participation in the project, the performance of cipp model was confirmed in this field.