Randomized trial of a cellular phone-enhanced home visitation parenting intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Although home visiting programs have been documented to improve parenting in high-risk families, their effectiveness is diminished when parents disengage from programs. Cellular phones offer an approach to promoting parent engagement and enhancing parenting outcomes. Our objective was to examine whether mothers in a parenting intervention, Planned Activities Training (PAT), or cellular phone-enhanced version (CPAT) of the intervention would demonstrate greater use of parenting strategies after treatment and at 6 months post-treatment compared with a wait-list control (WLC).

Methods

A sample of 371 low-income mothers and their 3.5- to 5.5-year-old children were randomly assigned to condition and assessed at pre-test, post-intervention, and 6 months p

SUBMITTER: Carta JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4258827 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature