Randomized controlled trial of primary care pediatric parenting programs: effect on reduced media exposure in infants, mediated through enhanced parent-child interaction.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine whether pediatric primary care-based programs to enhance parenting and early child development reduce media exposure and whether enhanced parenting mediates the effects.

Design

Randomized controlled trial.

Setting

Urban public hospital pediatric primary care clinic.

Participants

A total of 410 mother-newborn dyads enrolled after childbirth.

Interventions

Patients were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 interventions, the Video Interaction Project (VIP) and Building Blocks (BB) interventions, or to a control group. The VIP intervention comprised 1-on-1 sessions with a child development specialist who facilitated interactions in play and shared reading through review of videotapes made of the parent and child on primary care visit days; le

SUBMITTER: Mendelsohn AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3083922 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature