Behavioral Economics and Parent Participation in an Evidence-Based Parenting Program at Scale.

ABSTRACT: Evidence-based and culturally relevant parenting programs strengthen adults' capacity to support children's health and development. Optimizing parent participation in programs implemented at scale is a prevailing challenge. Our collaborative team of program developers, implementers, and researchers applied insights from the field of behavioral economics (BE) to support parent participation in ParentCorps-a family-centered program delivered as an enhancement to pre-kindergarten-as it scaled in a large urban school district. We designed a bundle of BE-infused parent outreach materials and successfully showed their feasibility in site-level randomized pilot implementation. The site-level study did not show a statistically significant impact on family attendance. A sub-study with a family-leve

SUBMITTER: Hill Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8458200 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature