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NCT number NCT04978766
Other study ID # 723-B9-343
Secondary ID R019-SABI-00235
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date August 13, 2021
Est. completion date September 10, 2022

Study information

Verified date December 2023
Source Universidad de Costa Rica
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of an interactive parent-child book reading intervention. The intervention includes two components: the provision of five children's books to parent-child dyads and information about how to practice interactive book reading. The investigators expect to find an effect of this intervention on a) infants' expressive vocabulary, b) reading activity, c) parental expectations and knowledge about language development and d) parental use of interactive book reading strategies.


Description:

The foundations of optimal health, growth and development are forged early in life, when income-related gaps in learning opportunities already exist in Costa Rica. It is therefore important for the government to mitigate the effects of these gaps through programs targeting the development of academic, behavioral, socioemotional and economic abilities. Key to the success of such programs is to consider physical health, nutrition, responsive care and early learning. Multiple government-led initiatives in Costa Rica had been carried out in order to provide adequate programs for infants and young children. Evidence of these efforts are observed in the low rates attained in infant mortality, malnutrition and anemia, as well as the high coverage of the current immunization program. However, policies targeting early learning in children under 36 months of age are incipient and government initiatives in this regard are relatively recent. The purpose of this study is to promote early language development, a central component of early learning. Our goal is to implement and evaluate a low-cost intervention targeting parents of infants who benefit from the existing immunization program of the public health services offered by the Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social (Costa Rican Social Security Fund). The investigators will use an experimental design to randomly assign 15- to 17-month-old infants and their caregivers to one of two groups: a control group or an experimental group. In the experimental group, caregivers will receive a package including five children's books and 36 text messages with information on how to practice interactive book reading with their children. This information will be delivered over a period of 12 weeks. The control group will not receive any treatment during the implementation of the intervention. In order to measure the efficacy of the intervention, the investigators will evaluate a) infants' expressive vocabulary, b) parent-child reading activity, c) parental expectations and knowledge about language development and d) parental use of interactive book reading strategies at baseline (15-17 months of age) and at posttest (18-20 months of age) in the control and the experimental group. After posttest, the control group will receive the complete intervention. The investigators expect to find an effect of the interactive book reading intervention on a) infants' expressive vocabulary, b) reading activity, c) parental expectations and knowledge about language development and d) parental use of interactive book reading strategies.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 184
Est. completion date September 10, 2022
Est. primary completion date September 10, 2022
Accepts healthy volunteers Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Gender All
Age group 15 Months to 17 Months
Eligibility Inclusion criteria for infants: - Age limits: 15 months to 17 months. - Sex: All. - Infant was born full term (= 37 weeks). - Infant is raised in a monolingual Spanish-speaking home. Inclusion criteria for mothers: - Mother knows how to read and write. - Mother has access to cell phone with internet. Exclusion Criteria: - Neither caregivers nor infants must have any significant known physical, mental or learning disability.

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Behavioral:
Interactive Book Reading
The intervention is a package including five children's books and information on how to practice interactive book reading. Information includes 36 audiovisual products delivered via text messaging over a 12-week period. Products include: An introductory video about interactive book reading, along with a written list of recommendations on how to practice interactive book reading. Two videos of child development experts explaining the benefits of interactive reading. Thirty written text messages strengthening content provided in the videos. Three audio messages guiding the progress of the intervention. Based on Abraham and Michie's (2008) taxonomy of behavior change techniques, one audiovisual product prompts specific goal settings, 13 provide instruction, one provides information on consequences, 10 prompt practice, three use follow-up prompts, one prompts self-monitoring of behavior, one models or demonstrates the behavior and six prompt barrier identification.

Locations

Country Name City State
Costa Rica Área de Salud (CCSS), Desamparados 2 Desamparados San José
Costa Rica Área de Salud (CCSS), Santo Domingo de Heredia Santo Domingo Heredia

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Universidad de Costa Rica Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Costa Rica, 

References & Publications (10)

Abraham C, Michie S. A taxonomy of behavior change techniques used in interventions. Health Psychol. 2008 May;27(3):379-87. doi: 10.1037/0278-6133.27.3.379. — View Citation

Black MM, Walker SP, Fernald LCH, Andersen CT, DiGirolamo AM, Lu C, McCoy DC, Fink G, Shawar YR, Shiffman J, Devercelli AE, Wodon QT, Vargas-Baron E, Grantham-McGregor S; Lancet Early Childhood Development Series Steering Committee. Early childhood develo — View Citation

Cusick SE, Georgieff MK. The Role of Nutrition in Brain Development: The Golden Opportunity of the "First 1000 Days". J Pediatr. 2016 Aug;175:16-21. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2016.05.013. Epub 2016 Jun 3. No abstract available. — View Citation

Dreyer, B. P., Mendelsohn, A. L., & Tamis-LeMonda, C. S. (1996). Assessing the child's cognitive home environment through parental report; reliability and validity. Early Development and Parenting: An International Journal of Research and Practice, 5(4),

Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos. (2018). Mortalidad Infantil y Evolución Reciente 2018 I Semestre. Datos Preliminares. Volumen 1, Año 14.

Jackson-Maldonado, D., Marchman, V. A., & Fernald, L. C. (2013). Short-form versions of the Spanish MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories. Applied Psycholinguistics, 34(4), 837-868.

Ministerio de Salud, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, & Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia. (2018). Encuesta de mujeres, niñez y adolescencia (EMNA).

Mol, S. E., Bus, A. G., De Jong, M. T., & Smeets, D. J. (2008). Added value of dialogic parent-child book readings: A meta-analysis. Early education and development, 19(1), 7-26.

Muhinyi, A., & Rowe, M. L. (2019). Shared reading with preverbal infants and later language development. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 64, 101053. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2019.101053

Suskind, D. L., Leung, C. Y., Webber, R. J., Hundertmark, A. C., Leffel, K. R., Suskind, E., Hernandez, M. W., & Graf, E. (2018). Development of the survey of parent/provider expectations and knowledge (SPEAK). First Language, 38(3), 312-331.

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Change in infant expressive vocabulary Infant expressive vocabulary will be measured with the short form (SF) Spanish versions of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI). Parents will complete version I (CDI-SFI) of the inventory at baseline and version II (CDI-SFII) of the inventory at posttest. Scores on the CDI-SFI inventory range from 0 to 104. Scores on the CDI-SFII inventory range from 0 to approximately 100-135, depending on the complexity of the participant's linguistic production. For both inventories, higher scores indicate a better outcome. Baseline [15 to 17-months] and Posttest [18 to 20-months].
Secondary Change in parental report of reading activities Parental report of reading activities will be measured with the Spanish version of the Reading Subscale (READ) of the Cognitive Home Environment Questionnaire (StimQ-Toddler). Scores range from 0 to 19. Higher scores indicate a better outcome. Baseline [15 to 17-months] and Posttest [18 to 20-months].
Secondary Change in parental expectations and knowledge about language development Parental report of expectations and knowledge about language development will be measured with the Spanish version of the Survey of Parent/Provider Expectations and Knowledge (SPEAK), a self-administered questionnaire assessing expectations and knowledge about early childhood cognitive and language development. Scores range from 0 to 54. Higher scores indicate a better outcome. Baseline [15 to 17-months] and Posttest [18 to 20-months].
Secondary Change in parental use of interactive book reading strategies Video recordings of parent-child dyads reading books at baseline and posttest will be analyzed for quantity of interactive book reading strategies. Videos will be first transcribed and subsequently coded according to the following coding categories: word tokens, word types, mean length of utterance, number of questions and pointing tokens. Range of scores depends on participants' communicative/linguistic production. Higher scores indicate a better outcome. Baseline [15 to 17-months] and Posttest [18 to 20-months].
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