A Qualitative Assessment of Community Acceptability and Use of a Locally Developed Children's Book to Increase Shared Reading and Parent-Child Interactions in Rural Zambia.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Early reading interventions hold promise for increasing language and literacy development in young children and improving caregiver-child interactions. To engage rural caregivers and young children in home reading, Zambian child psychologists and education specialists developed a culturally representative, local language children's book targeted at pre-grade 1 children.

Objectives

We qualitatively assessed community acceptability and use of the book distributed to households with young children in two provinces of Zambia.

Methods

We conducted 15 focus group discussions (FGDs) with women (n=117) who received the "Zambian folktales adapted stories for young children" book. A codebook was created a priori, based on established themes in the guide; con

SUBMITTER: Kaiser JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10143943 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature