CompletedNot Applicable

Literacy Promotion for Latinos Study

United States662 participantsStarted 2020-11-16

Plain-language summary

This study tests the extent to which tailored outreach text messages that provide a cue to action and an intervention that enhances access to poverty-reducing resources, in combination with standard primary care literacy promotion, can improve child language and social- emotional skill acquisition among low-income Latino children.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Primary caregiver of a child age 6 months to 12 months * Identifies as Latino/a/x * Primary language English or Spanish * Cell phone ownership * Age 18 years or older * Willing to receive text messages * Willing to accept being placed into one of three study groups Exclusion Criteria: * Children with multiple congenital anomalies or genetic disorders and previously identified developmental delays * Individuals unable to provide informed consent * Intent to discontinue care at current pediatric clinic / recruitment site * Discontinued care at one of the three pediatric clinics / recruitment sites

What they're measuring

Child Language Skills

Timeframe: 18-month follow-up

Child Communicative Skills

Timeframe: 9-month follow-up, 18-month follow-up

Child Social-emotional Skills

Timeframe: Baseline, 9-month follow-up, 18-month follow-up

Caregiver Cognitive Stimulation

Timeframe: Baseline, 9-month follow-up, 18-month follow-up

Dialogic Reading Behavior

Timeframe: 9-month follow-up

Caregiver Discipline Strategies

Timeframe: 18-month follow-up

Trial details

NCT IDNCT04609553

SponsorRutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2024-12-28

Results submitted2025-10-03

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