A Family Literacy Program for Latino Families

Rutgers The State University of New Jersey

Status: Completed

Conditions: Literacy

Treatments: Behavioral: Ready and Healthy for Kindergarten Family Literacy program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03941197

Pro2019000570

Details and patient eligibility

About

A pilot study of a health-focused family literacy program. The program will consist of a series of 8 weekly workshops centered around different health topics (e.g. physical activity) that introduce basic literacy skills. The workshops are designed for children entering kindergarten and their parents

Full description

This is a pilot study of a health-focused family literacy program. The program consists of 8 weekly health-themed workshops designed to introduce basic literacy skills to children entering Kindergarten and their parents. There will be a pre and post test assessment for participating parents and children. During the 8 weeks, parents will receive 2-3 weekly text messages to reinforce material presented at the weekly workshop.

Enrollment: 14 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Preferred language is either Spanish or English.
• Parent or legal guardian of child
• Parent age 18 or older
• Willing to accept text messages

Exclusion criteria

• Children not entering Kindergarten in Fall 2019 and their parents will be excluded

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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14 participants in 1 patient group

Ready and Healthy for Kindergarten Family Literacy Program

Experimental group

Description:

Ready and Healthy for Kindergarten Family Literacy Program- 8 weekly parent child workshops with text message reminders

Treatment:

Behavioral: Ready and Healthy for Kindergarten Family Literacy program