Family play, reading, and other stimulation and early childhood development in five low-and-middle-income countries.

ABSTRACT: This paper used longitudinal data from five studies conducted in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, and Rwanda to examine the links between family stimulation and early childhood development outcomes (N = 4904; M_age = 51.5; 49% girls). Results from random-effects and more conservative child-fixed effects models indicate that across these studies, family stimulation, measured by caregivers' engagement in nine activities (e.g., reading, playing, singing), predicted increments in children's early numeracy, literacy, social-emotional, motor, and executive function skills (standardized associations ranged from 0.05 to 0.11 SD). Study-specific models showed variability in the estimates, with null associations in two out of the five studies. These findings indicate the need for ad

SUBMITTER: Cuartas J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11475363 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature